Managing your team that's spread out in many locations worldwide can present huge challenges, even for the most experienced Team Leaders. How do you ensure that each of your team members feels they're treated fairly? How can you prevent your remote team members from feeling isolated? And how do you get all your team members to buy into the team's objectives and stay on track?
How to manage your team with many cultures and time zones to navigate:
- Establish a strong communications strategy
This is especially important if your team members are in different time zones and speak different languages. SFI provides excellent communication tools, such as instant messaging SFIM, PSA/CSA, Genealogy Group Mailer to get in touch with your team members who are scattered across the globe. As a Team Leader, you need to communicate team’s objectives clearly and frequently.
- Emphasize to your team members the importance of being a team player.
You’ll need team members who can demonstrate reliability, communicate constructively, being active participant and so on to help each everyone achieve both short and long term goals.
- Give frequent, fair, and appropriate feedback to everyone in your team, and make sure you're always available to them, so they know that they’re valued.
Following these important points will keep a dispersed team unified and motivated.
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Managing your team that's spread out in many locations worldwide can present huge challenges, even for the most experienced Team Leaders. How do you ensure that each of your team members feels they're treated fairly? How can you prevent your remote team members from feeling isolated? And how do you get all your team members to buy into the team's objectives and stay on track?
How to manage your team with many cultures and time zones to navigate:
- Establish a strong communications
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