One of the major responsibilities of the operational managers is to ensure the productivity of their employees.
Managers should make sure that their employees would be satisfied enough while working in your company business.
They must have complete package benefits to embrace well their jobs and tasks in their workplace.
With the proper monitoring and supervision, employees will surely be motivated and help you to attain its organizational goals.
Challenges in COVID-19 pandemic
Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic crisis, it is a great challenge to all managers to deeply supervise their subordinates.
And because of this pandemic, there’s now the so-called “remote working” or working from home scheme.
Thus, one of the major problems which managers experience today is how they can maximize the productivity of the remote team.
So, if you are also thinking about how you can effectively promote the camaraderie within your team while maximizing remote worker productivity, then it is advisable to take some essential tips from the experts.
Below are 5 ways on how to maximize remote team productivity:
1. Effective utilization of schedules
Make sure that the schedules are well-utilized.
Monitoring of the employees’ schedules is difficult for the operation managers just to check if the productivity performance is maximized. Employees are aware of the tasks they should work on and when they should complete them. The work schedules also help to track status towards the completion of the tasks or projects.
2. Have open communication with the employees
Operation managers must continue to maintain open communication regularly. This is an important part as it allows the managers to maintain in contact with the remote team. If the team has any queries, they can easily reach out to the managers.
Open communication also provides trust among the team, even that they are not working in the office. As a manager, you must take care of your team, and always be there to provide support if necessary. Most of the time, open communication increases productivity levels.
3. Build a strong camaraderie and teamwork culture among workers
Developing a teamwork culture with remote workers is quite challenging on the part of the manager. However, managers can make use of online platforms to make sure that they are working together and doing their tasks. Some of the common communication platform (for example, Skype, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams) are used for video teleconferencing and team collaboration. This allows them to see one another and even work together, even in remote places.
When doing an online meeting and updates, they can do brainstorming on how to successfully complete their tasks within the given timeframe. Through developing a teamwork culture would give you an assurance that everything goes well within your company. Hence, operation managers will become more effective in developing and maximizing the productivity level of the remote team.
4. Help employees in eliminating distraction
Managers can think of a better way on how they can help their workers to eliminate distractions. This may somehow help the remote workers increase their productivity level since no distractions would hinder them while doing their tasks. It is indeed helpful for the workers to create a positive and well-conducive environment since it also encourages them to work well in their workplace.
Managers should encourage their remote workers to switch off social media sites throughout the working period and just open the line of communication for the possible raising of concerns and queries.
5. Encourage them to have some breaks
Managers should remind their employees to take a break if possible. Spending a lot of time on work tasks may give stress and burnout. A work-break is important as it helps to relax the mind of the employees. This will help the remote team successfully finish their tasks on time.
After returning from a break, employees tend to think better as they are not too exhausted from work. They can then easily catch up with the tasks and finish them quickly.
As managers, you want to see your remote workers be productive all the time. That’s why you should supervise them properly and give them the needed support. As much as possible, you provide incentives that would encourage them to work efficiently. You can online training and seminars to enhance the productivity level of the employees. This may also serve as their career growth and development that would provide a domino effect on the company.
Final Words
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