Today we’d like to share an awesome article about remote teams and how to collaborate efficiently written by Isaac Gube on SixRevisions.com.
The article is built on a case study to demonstrate common problems with remote teamwork. Isaac provides solutions to problems like how to stay in sync, remote task management, remote brainstorming and tasks delegation:
We set a solid meeting agenda, and stuck to it to make sure that the time we spend in meetings is short and efficient. It’s hard to get Jacob sitting in on a meeting, he’d rather be doing stuff, rather than talking about them – and as such, a clear meeting agenda is present that we both add to throughout the week to make sure that we’re not meeting simply for the sake of meeting.
By the way: AgreeDo is a great tool to create clear meeting agendas collaboratively, to improve overall collaboration, meeting efficiency and productivity by combining web 2.0 technology with intuitive handling and ubiquitous availability – for free!
Great article!
If I could add a small advice; it’s no doubt that it’s more difficult to manage a remote team than in-house employees. You’d have to use a help from productivity tools for good communication. You’d have to keep the communication clear and open so that you won’t be misunderstood.
You also have to use tools to keep them motivated to focus on work and not procrastinate. Since working in front of a computer at home can have lots of distractions. For our company, it’s very important for us to have an employee monitoring software. Our boss can monitor our work better.
This video of one of our useful and reliable productivity tools might catch your interest.