Managing Distributed Teams

Several years ago, some businesses gradually began their digital transformation with cloud-based technology and agile systems. Hence we can safely say that the concept of remote teams has been around for a while, especially true of organizations that work in the information sector. It took on an increasingly important role once digital work applications, tools, ecosystems arrived and to top the chart is the Pandemic.

Today, a large part of the global workforce consists of remote teams as it offers a range of benefits for both employers and employee. Companies are able to save up on the real estate and infrastructure costs and employees appreciate the chance to avoid long morning office commutes and looking after their home life too. However, even with modern technology at hand, you and your team could face difficulties in adapting to new protocols and procedures involved in remote work.

It’s important to understand that while remote work comes with various boons for your team, there are several issues individual team members will face. This can either affect their productivity, mental health, or technical capability, all resulting in lower productivity across the team. Hence, as managers to identify these issues and fix them needs a great deal of Emotional intelligence.

Tech Fatique, Meeting Fatique, Burnout, Divergent time zones, Loneliness; We have listed few of the issues and have also provided solutions to deal with it to help virtual project managers have to overcome spatial and temporal challenges;

What you will get?

• Challenges in managing virtual teams and the needed solutions
• E-Leadership principles
• The right balance between your role and relationship building
• Supporting solutions
• Strategies for dealing with distributed teams
• A grasp on managing cross-cultural teams
• Examples