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6.2.2 Practical Application: putting priorities, employees can organise their time
knowledge into action for real-world results and their work in a hierarchical manner, giving
based on the online leadership methods importance and attention to the activities that
must be completed first. Finally, it is crucial to
How to implement these types of leadership?
promote accountability by monitoring the
- Be responsive and helpful, actively listen to progress of goals.
your team members and demonstrate that you
are trustworthy. Managing remote work can
be complicated if the leader is not close to his
employees. So try to be transparent and create
an atmosphere of availability, in which you are
always ready to welcome questions from the
team and encourage people to get in touch.
Arrange individual meetings with each
member to allow them not only to convey
performance information and discuss ideas,
but also to express their concerns and
problems.

- Create work policies for remote
management: developing a template for
Activity: Let’s work as a group on those
remote work policies can give you the ability to
reflective questions
define the expectations of your organisation
and make them transparent for your 1. How have you demonstrated
employees. In this way, everyone is expected responsiveness and helpfulness as a
to abide by them to ensure corporate remote leader? Can you think of specific
compliance. Remote working policies could examples where you actively listened to
include working frequency and hours, use of your team members and built trust with
social media, data protection, having a good them?
internet connection, and so on. 2. In what ways have you created an

- Focus on the goals, not the activity. atmosphere of availability and
transparency in your remote team? How
Managing remote work also involves managing do you encourage open communication
the tasks assigned to your employees, while and make yourself accessible to address
monitoring the achievement of their goals. questions and concerns?
However, each of them may need different 3. Have you been conducting individual
timescales to complete them. Someone's meetings with each team member? How
greater slowness should not be penalised, if in have these meetings helped you
the end the task is completed adequately. So understand their performance, ideas,
how do you handle this situation? First of all, it concerns, and problems? What
would be appropriate to define company improvements can be made in the way
objectives. In this way, motivation is you approach these meetings?
stimulated by sharing a clear idea of the work
that each employee must carry out in order to Let’s create our own work policies for remote
achieve these common objectives and thus management ?
contribute to the success of the company. It
also seems appropriate to shift the focus from Adapt the question to your need;
the task to the goal. In fact, by defining

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