4 Tips To Successfully Manage Your Remote Team

In this video, I talk about some quick and inexpensive things that you can do to ease the transition and help manage your remote team.

This list of tips will help you set up yourself and your team for success.

1. Weekly Positives

Start the week off right by listing positives that your team has achieved together.

We get fired up after going through the positives and then go into our daily tasks.

At the end of each quarter, we look back and see what we achieved as a team.

2. Have a Daily Check-In

We use Zoom to have a daily face-to-face video check in every morning.

In this meeting, we have a bit of banter, set the agenda and go through each person’s objective for the day.

It’s essential to see each other’s faces and have some light-hearted conversations mixed in with work talk.

One of the hardest things about working from home, especially if you’re used to an office environment, is the sense of loneliness and isolation that can set in.

3. Communication Tools

It is to keep your team connected and communicating throughout the working day.

We use Slack for our day to day questions and Asana to assign tasks.

These tools are both available for free.

4. Keep it Fun

Don’t forget to add some fun into your team environment and keep morale high.

I still buy Friday beers for my team.

Little things like this are helping keep spirits high and my team as a unit.

Hopefully, you can take a few tips from this quick little video, and you can implement some of these things with your team if you are struggling with your remote team.

Enjoy!

Video Transcript

Hey, everyone, it's Dan Wardrope here from Flexxable.

I hope you're well.

Today, I wanna talk to you a little bit about team management and how we do it here at Flex HQ.

Well, HQ at the moment is me, just here by myself.

So it's interesting to, hopefully, for you guys, to understand what we're doing and you might be able to learn something from the way that we kind of run our business, all right.

But before I get started, of course, if you wanna get more tips and tricks for running lead generation agency, or you're a lead gen that needs help with traffic and all that type of stuff.

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So the way we do it, it's pretty simple.

Like anything, we tend to like to keep things simple. It may not be perfect, but it's worked quite well for us, okay?

And our procedure is, on Mondays we have what's called a virtual stand-up meeting, all right, so everyone joins a Zoom call and we have a document in Google Sheets and on each tab there's a whole week, all right, so there's week one, week two, week three.

And we've been doing this ever since COVID hit.

And on each of those tabs is the names of all of our staff members with three things to do for the particular week starting on Monday, okay?

And before we do that, we have a column to the right of everyone's names with positives from the week before.

So what we do is we just run through all of the good things that happened the week before, how well things have been happening for the agency, only positive stuff, okay, we want everyone to be in a positive frame of mind, and get a little bit of interaction, everyone has to say something.

And then after that, we go straight into the three things that each person has to achieve this week, all right.

I think it's kind of a hybrid thing that I learned from a strategic coach and a few other mentors that I've had over the years, and it works pretty well.

The next tool we use, well, we do the stand-ups on Monday, and then we do a 15-minute meeting every day at the same time, just to check in and see how everyone's going.

If there's any questions, it's basically just, "Hey, Alan, how are you doing?

Hey, Graham, how are you doing today? How's things?

What have you got on your plate?

What's your priorities?

Okay, sounds good. See you tomorrow." type thing.

And that works really well just for me, as the business owner, to keep an eye on the jigsaw pieces to make sure everything's going okay.

We also use Asana for tasks, I'm not as good as I should be on Asana, but our team seems to do pretty well there, and we also use Slack for kind of communication.

So Asana's more for task management and Slack is just for communication.

I tend to be on Slack a lot more than Asana.

So, yeah, there we go, that's three tips, I guess, three different things we're using, which is like a virtual stand-up, we've got the Zoom meetings and then we've got Slack and we've got Asana.

That's four things that we use and works well for us.

Keep it simple guys, don't over complicate it with all those crazy systems and automations and things like that, just keep it simple and communicate with each other.

I hope that helps. I hope you've enjoyed this video.

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