R E M O T E – 3 Simple Ways To Motivate Your Online Team

Wondering how to motivate your remote/hybrid workforce? How can you make the best of remote working?

There is an overwhelming majority of the workforce that is choosing to work from home. If you have found yourself in the position of leading a team that is more experienced in online communications than yourself, you could be in for a rough experience bringing your dynamic team together. They will get bored, and unmotivated quickly. Or maybe your team lacks online remote experience. Either way, there are things you can do NOW to help build your team, and provide better work-life balance to increase productivity outputs.

There are leaders in the industry who offer their comments on remote/hybrid work. One such leader, Entrepreneur Leadership Network Contributor Lion Shirdan is a Founding Partner & CEO of multiple agencies, including UPRISE Management. In his most recent article 3 Simple Ways to Motivate a Remote Workforce, Shirdan provides some key insights into helping leaders keep morale high with online/hybrid workers. Two years after the Covid-19 pandemic, he suggests that society has returned to some semblance of normal.

“It is a new normal, certainly, but at least we are no longer scrambling to buy up rolls of toilet paper or fashioning make-shift masks out of T-shirts”

Burnt-out or unmotivated employees? Here are a few tricks to keep morale high.

1. Communicate efficiently:  Use collaborative platforms, which he lists in his article, and develop regular schedules, updates, and summaries to help keep your team informed.

2. Encourage a work-life balance: Flexibility, shared calendars, support work-life balance, and allow workers to indicate when they are free, or busy.

3. Make team-building a priority:  Life-work balance is becoming the new norm, practice team-building activities. “Create a remote workforce of enthusiastic collaborators who are excited to log on for the day”

“Create a remote workforce of enthusiastic collaborators who are excited to log on for the day”

 Shirdan encourages taking a diligent approach to communication, “encouraging rest and recuperation, and creating an engaging workplace culture, it is possible to prevent burnout and transform your remote workforce. In the end, managing a successful remote team can be both advantageous and rewarding”.

Some other thoughts to consider when working with remote/hybrid workers. Are your remote or hybrid workers avoiding the office because of a bad boss? That opens a can of worms. The definition of a micromanager is “bad boss” according to Google. Or maybe the boss is failing their remote/hybrid workers with a lack of communication or bogging them down with excessive work. These are true pain points online or off. But if one follows Shirdan’s 3 Simple Ways to Motivate a Remote Workforce, leaders may be able to avoid those snares and turn their remote teams into dynamic teams.

Workers have equal value inside the office and remote!

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