How to best support remote employees by Claire Lew
You want to support remote employees in your now all-remote team. But how, exactly?
These past few weeks, I’ve gotten countless of questions around how to support remote employees. And so, I thought I’d write up my recommendations here, based on studying remote teams and working with remote teams for the past 6+ years (not to mention, being a remote team, ourselves!)
This may feel salient to you if you’ve found yourself more depleted and anxious as of late as a leader — and you’ve noticed your team is, too. As a result, you’ve been trying to check-in more with your team during these challenging times and ask, “How are you doing?”
But you wonder if there’s anything else — or something more — you should be doing.
I’ve got some answers for you 🙂 To support remote employees during these times, here are 8 things as a manager you can try…
Michael Sauers is currently the Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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