9 Tips for Managing Remote Employees
Supporting Your Remote Workforce – Gartner offered nine ways companies can support employees during remote work, through empathetic care and productive engagement
Summary:
Gartner gave practical ways managers can support employees through the crisis, while remaining productive and engaged. Summary recommendations include:
- Provide Guidance on Sensitive Issues – Give guidance to managers how best to tackle sensitive issues arising from pandemic, including alternative work models, job security and prospects, impact on staffing, and tension in workplace
- Promote and Engage in Dialogue – Create opportunities for two-way dialogues on both positive and negative implications of COVID-19 outbreak
- Trust Employees – Trust and inspire confidence in employees that they will do the right thing, if managers provide supportive structure
- Reinforce Organization Values – Apply established company values that communicate care to employees, model right behavior, and encourage reporting of misconduct or unethical actions
- Be Clear on Objectives – Emphasize objectives and outputs over processes to bring clarity to employees what should be accomplished, while being flexible to allow them to complete assignments in way most productive for them
- Increase Recognition – Find areas for recognition through surveys and feedback from virtual meetings, and reward with public acknowledgment, tokens of appreciation, development opportunities and low-cost perks to motivate employees and signal behaviors to be emulated
- Encourage Innovation – Even with constraints, managers can provide opportunities for incremental innovation or process improvements, sharing successes to employees and providing safety for potential failures
To read article, visit https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/9-tips-for-managing-remote-employees/
Company:
Gartner
Categories:
People and culture, Remote work
Source:
- 9 Tips for Managing Remote Employees, May 2020 (Gartner)
Original publication date: May 2, 2020
Date last updated: May 8, 2020