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- Schedule weekly team meetings Activity: submit the following reflective
questions to your group and start an open
It is very important to schedule virtual
discussion with the managers:
meetings with the entire team at least once a
week. In these meetings it will be possible to ○ What specific challenges have you
exchange professional information, but also encountered as a remote manager?
balance moments of empathy and humour. ○ How do you currently communicate and
This is essential for maintaining the "human" provide feedback to your remote team
relationship often replaced by emails and members?
messages in remote work. ○ What strategies have you found effective
in fostering engagement and motivation
Remember to involve all your team members
among remote team members?
and leave space for each of them to express
○ How do you ensure clear expectations
their opinions!
and goal alignment in a remote work
- Automate administrative actions setting?
○ How do you address potential feelings of
Automation is the key to simplifying your work
isolation or disconnection among remote
and making remote management smoother. In
team. How can you promote
this way, administrative aspects and activities
collaboration and teamwork among
that often take time away from other work
remote team members?
spaces can be reduced.
○ What steps can you take to support the
- Balance out distractions professional development and growth of
remote team members?
Remote work potentially presents much more
distraction than work done in the office, due to
the different environment possibly
characterised by the presence of pets,
children, breaks, social networks, which do not
cease to exist just because you work remotely.

The manager then has to accept that
distractions arise, while also showing their
team that it's okay to take a break from time to
time. Taking a break is healthy and inevitable
and it is therefore useless to set about fighting
them. Instead, the manager's job is to balance
the distractions. What should I do?

Create a place for shared distraction: this way
you will show your team that it is natural to
feel the need to take a break; an example
would be to create a messaging channel to
share memes or other funny content. Plus,
have fun too, you're human too! In this way,
show your team members that distractions are
okay by sharing spaces and breaks with them.

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