Trust is a one of the most critical factors when managing employees. How do we trust that they are spending their time productively? Focusing on the appropriate things? Completing work and tasks in the correct manner? To build your trust in them,
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Virtual Team Management
Training Secrets to Virtual Team Building
Technology Tools for Remote Workforces – To IM or not?
Is Instant Messaging a good tool for a remote or dispersed workforce? The answer is Yes and No. It all depends on how it is used.
Keeping communication flowing between a dispersed team takes much more effort than when they are based in one office.
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Remote Manager MD
When managing a team of remote employees, how do you know if you have a healthy team? When you don’t see your team all of the time, it can be tough to discover team issues. However, there are many symptoms that can indicate signs of trouble.
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Managing Performance – Keeping a Remote Team on the Right Track
How do you keep a remote team on the right track and in-line with the company and team needs? How do you ensure they understand how to perform and know how they are performing?
You can keep your team focused toward reaching the same goals and achieving them,
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Creating Accountability with a Distributed Workforce
When the term Micro-Manager is mentioned, it incites painful ideas of a manager that is smothering, controlling and demotivating. But the conundrum for most managers of field teams or distributed workforces is how to ensure that the job is getting done without over managing.
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Micro-Managing Your Remote Team – How to Avoid this Common Pitfall
One of the biggest fears when managing a team of remote employees is that they won’t be working and getting the job done when you can’t see them. How do you know that they are spending their time wisely and doing things the correct way?
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The ROI of an Off-Site Employee Structure – Arguments for the change
When considering a change to an off-site vs. on site employee structure, how do you know if it is right for the company? Or how to you make the argument to executive management that it will be. Some of the argument involves a shift in how we define work.
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Establishing Respect In Managing Remote Employees
Many remote managers make the mistake of trying to establish their credibility through demands and force. Have you ever had a manager tell you a new policy or procedure is being implemented with the reason of “because that’s the way it is” or “that’s what I decided” or “it is what it is.” How did this make you feel?
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Motivating Remote Employees by Making Work More Like Play
When you are managing a team of remote employees, it can be more challenging to keep them motivated, engaged and focused. You need to know they are self-driven to do their best, even when you can’t be there to see them.
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Technology Tools for HR and the Remote Workforce
Quickly disappearing are the days in companies where all employees are based in one office. Remote and virtual workforces are growing with the need to improve speed to service, lower travel cost, and improved customer service. Research has suggested that now approximately 75% of US companies have employees that work virtual or remote.
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