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 the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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