Managing Remotely

No.

Partially. There is a company scrum at 10am every morning during which people are expected to come, but it’s not a big deal if they…

All of our teams have their own channels within Flowdock (similar to Slack) and weekly scheduled meetings to get everyone on the same page. Remote…

Yes – see my blog where I wrote the definitive guide to planning an offsite. 

Yes we do, and they are awesome. My tip would be to keep the work content to a minimum. A brief session on how the…

Logistics are a pain, but the outcome is always worth it. Just allow plenty of time for planning and be frank with everyone that it…

Yes, they meet in pods on their own, but we meet as a group at least twice a year for some bonding time and project…

Minimum twice a year for summer and Christmas Event

No, not unless they require it or volunteer to. We are able to communicate through virtual means to avoid asking our CSPs to interrupt their…

We rely on the outputs from both independent and team work to understand how individual [A]gents are doing. We also are able to evaluate detailed…

I am very fortunate to have an incredible team of consultants. They are self-starters who work until the job is done. This type of work…

Classes taught, student homework completion, and parent ratings.

Well, we only have remote workers, including me. For a 100% distributed team, I’d point to a few key resources: A flexible, instant “virtual office…

If you can, by all means spend a week with new colleagues onsite. That immensely helps in building trust. Ongoing, having regular video calls helps.…

Effective communication Understanding Accommodation

Sensing everybody’s mood, level of motivation, identifying issues before they develop.  With an on-site team, you get to take advantage of facial expressions, body language,…

Building rapport with new coworkers can be difficult when you don’t get the casual social interactions you often get for free when everyone is in…

Balancing socializing in a virtual workspace with not working in a silo. When working remotely, it’s so easy to either block out everything and become…

We make our communication better by having daily calls and hangouts between team members. We get the entire team together at the GitLab summit once…

We give our team members flexibility. Just because they were hired for one particular job doesn’t mean that they can’t do other things that interest…

Communication and information sharing are key. Dell has developed and actively supports an Employee Resource Group (ERG) called Conexus that champions a flexible work community…

We’re mostly a BYOD type of company, but we provide devices for those who need it.

They have their own devices and can also decide what they want, a pc, a mac or whatsoever. We take care of the tools or…

We have all of our team members use their own computers, but we provide all the apps necessary.

Nothing atypical here. Typical holidays and vacation time and sick days.

We offer 15 paid time-off days per year.

Work-life balance is something we take very seriously.  We set the expectation from the get-go that no one should be working long hours or during…

My biggest fears were around not being able to manage work output, and not having clarity into someone’s projects. For the first 6 months this…

My biggest fear is that I do not always know what employees feel. When I make an update, what do they think? Sure, they give…

Trust is a big fear and challenge. At the end of the day, as a business owner of a remote team, you aren’t there to…