Surefire Ways to Keep Your Remote Employees Motivated

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Companies all around the world broke the fourth wall of traditional working set-up when the safety of employees are threatened due to the pandemic.

From face-to-face working interactions to the now full-virtual experience, a 360-degree shift is now paving an innovation that may be the default for the future.

As remote working continue to surpass numerous challenges, a lot of organizations are finding themselves at the crossroads of finding solutions to everyday problems such as unmotivated employees. So, how do you motivate employees in this ever changing landscape of technological and work innovations?

Here are our top picks.

• Encourage a Growth Mindset

  Having a growth mindset is discovering that you can expand, you can learn and you can grow more, no matter what stage of life you are in. When you encourage a growth mindset, you allow your employees to grow, to take on a new course, to sign-up for a webinar, to learn a new skill that will pave the way for new opportunities.

  Encouraging a growth mindset is highly-fulfilling and rewarding to remote employees as you give emphasis on their performance goals and their personal development. What’s more, this strengthens a company culture that will surely make your remote team members proud.

• Make Time to Build Trust

  Because remote set-ups don’t allow for face-to-face interaction, trust must be established now, more than ever. But, there’s a thin line between micromanaging and building trust between you and your employees. Micromanagement kills motivation.

  If you feel the urge to ask questions every now and then, call every hour, and monitor employees’ online activities, you’ll eventually kill of their motivation and perform. What you need to do is understand each team member’s working style and how they will accomplish each task. When you trust them to keep their word, you allow your remote employees to take ownership of their tasks.

  To build trust, you’ll need to establish rapport. This approachability will help your employees initiate communication or ask work-related concerns without hesitation.

• Communication is Critical

  In a remote working set-up, communication is vital for everyone’s success. Communication is critical for building rapport and trust. Communication is also essential to getting the job done. While there are a lot of instant messaging apps tailored for organizations, the importance of video conferencing cannot be overlooked.

  There are a lot of helpful and free video calling solutions like Zoom, Skype and more that you and your remote team members can use. You can also build a culture of adding people in calls (provided that they are not busy with their own tasks) to treat everyone as if they are part of the loop. Also, inserting a joke, here and there, won’t hurt. It can help break the ice a little.

• Provide Feedback

  Nothing makes an employee more involved than receiving valuable feedback on their work. Constructive feedback express that you care about their work and that you value their inputs enough to align organizational objectives with their performance. Providing feedback is not only limited to constructive feedback. You can extend praises and positive notions when warranted.

• Continuously Share the Big Picture

  You don’t mention the company’s vision only once to your remote workers. You instill them that they are playing a huge part to the company’s success through frequent and effective communication. By doing so, you develop a sense of purpose to everyone in your team

There is no doubt that remote working is going to be the frontier of working innovations. Because indispensable human resource and strategies are crucial for its success, you’ll need to prepare for it and commit to it as a dream team doesn’t happen overnight.

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