You were very informative. I have been running vtc's for the past 15 years and only a few of us worked remotely. These virtual meetings are great since I was working with the gov and we have employees all around the world. I have seen some wasted times during these vtc's and some great productive times. mostly great. Again, great job in this presentation.
I think one thing that has to be emphasized time and again while managing remote teams is that what they are doing with us is a real job (with prospects of career growth, a great future, and so on) as opposed to a non-critical freelance project. Part of this can be emphasized when incentives like yearly retreats are mentioned, and part of them within the daily or weekly meetings.
Thanks for sharing! My take-away from this video: 1: Track hours worked, attendance and other basic measures of productivity 2: Implement systems 3: Allow a degree of flexible work hours but also keep some consistency 4: Track work output 5: Organize a system of overlapping times for communicating in different time zones. 6: Do a quarterly review to see how your virtual team members are coping 7: Compensate for the fact that you are not bumping into each other 8: Have a chat room open constantly 9: Be wary of Chat and Email overload 10: Choose the right communication style 11: Use tools for quick video or visual communication 12: Use screen sharing tools 13: Video conferencing technologies 14: Set up a meeting rhythm 15: Effective collaboration on documents and spreadsheets 16: Set up a project management system, and actually use it 17: Test new employees with short-term work before hiring them full time 18: Pay virtual team members well 19: Look for people who are the right fit for virtual work 20: Create a standard on-boarding process for educating new employees about your company 21: Inspire via video 22: Meet in person 23: Nurture virtual friendships 24: Create a true “team” feeling 25: Beware of a mixed office and remote culture
Very informative! 100% agree! What that doesn't get measured, doesn't get managed. And if you don't meet people on a set time and rhythm, people can easily get distracted and tasks often don't get done effectively.
Fantastic presentation. I didn't notice the music nor did I think about the volume until I saw other comments. I think the volume is fine. You are a gem! So many gold nuggets in your presentation. I counted 18 tips, but non the less, keep up the great work!
Excellent video! Lots of great points. I watched it once from beginning to end and then a couple times pausing and taking notes. Liked and subscribed! 👍🏽 Keep the great content coming.
Thanks for this video! It exactly the info I was looking for. I'm in the process of recreating a remote team, I did a sort of 2 month trial run previously and it literally fell apart at the seems, workers did a half ass job on the project, which I still had to pay them for, I would upload projects and It won't be seen until it's too late... It was just a mess and its really because I hadn't had enough time to do most of the things you mentioned in this video so I've ceased the remote program for a while to do some more research on how I can keep it running effectively and this video really helped put things into perspective. I have a few questions though... 1. Is it necessary to have a face to face retreat / get together get together if it's a small team like 5-10 people? 2. That part about working with them part time before doing it full time, would it apply for remote workers since they're basically already working part-time? I'm guessing maybe that depends on the type of company, right? 3. Lastly, basecamp looks like just what I need but I realize that it costs 99/month (not that expensive for what its offering) but I just started this company and I haven't even create the perfect team yet that I know could get the job done so that I can afford the subscription so which online collab and communication tool would you suggest based on my situation?
1. Not necessary for the retreat until I'd say you're above 20. 2. I'd work with them 10-20 hours a week before going 40 hours a week. 3. Asana is free for up to 5 users I think?
What is your hiring and onboarding process in your business? Do you still face the same struggles? Sounds like you are lacking systems and processes for this element of your business
We have a company that different offices in 4 European countries. I found your tips to be quite on the point and true. Especially the one about work anytime, anywhere but attend the meetings. But the more tricky and important one was meeting each other once a year at someplace. We have these annual summer parties every year where we gather for about 2 days in one country and it's amazing how effective it is. We really get to know each other more and become friends rather than plain co-workers. During the year, when we see some flaws in the other person's work, we automatically try to help and not make a big deal out of it because of the friendship that was established in the summer parties. One thing I can add to help the organization culture is a virtual coffee break every week and a channel (like a WhatsApp group) for everyone to share jokes which adds a bit color to the organization.
Where is the indexing with timestamps linking to the chapters in the video? Like Below 0:00 INTRO 0:20 COMPENSATE FOR IN PERSON INTERACTION 1:25 CONSTANT VIRTUAL CHATROOM
@@RunningRemote Something that comes for leaders and others in Remote teams is working with difficult conversations - like how to interpret the emotional tone of a text-based conversation.
Just started my company in social media and have been expanding to meet the demand. With new hired employee working remotely, it have been quite hard to manage. Thank you so much for this vid!
could you please explain why i just only got 18 tips frm the video? i mean did you cut it or i just lacked some parts of the tips, as you said that video is the richest communications tool, but what i experienced is i lacked some points of your tips. however you stopped numbering frm 12:35 mins tho..please give me advice about it.
That's what the editor named the video. I'll go through them again and confirm but we might have edited some out. If you need some more rules I'm happy to send them over to you :)
The good news is I have been doing everything you recommended. I have an issue with your suggestion for idle chat. We use Google hangouts for chat but we limit it to important communication that we need an answer for within the hour.
I really appreciated this video. Didn’t even notice the music, but I was using earbuds, so maybe the sound was clearer? These tips were so timely for our organization. It’s clear that you speak from experience. I would love to see a video side by side comparing some of these tech tools, or at least clarifying some of the jargon. When I Google them, I find myself overwhelmed.
Question. If a group of people working for a company are remote and they have individual projects, rather than the shared projects envisioned by scrums etc, what makes them a team and gives them a sense of a shared culture and belonging? Real question honestly. Post pandemic my team of staff will really only have me, their line manager, in common as they will be primarily home based. We will only need to come together for team meeting type discussions about processes and other changes affecting us individually equally. They can give each other ideas and advice on their own work but they don't actively collaborate. I'd like to support them to have a shared sense of being. Currently all TH-cam videos I've seen are on collaborating teams, would be great to hear more on this different kind of remote setup. Thanks.
Numbering wasn't in sequence and there weren't 21 rules - many missing - I guess you were checking whether everyone is paying attention. Anyways, good info.👌👍
Wow i not expected you are from time doctor app i use it as well . Thanks for tips . One note i think in next videos dont use music in background is bit annoying. Is better just you talkit. Thank you
Excellent tips. We have had thought of using 2 part-time team members to do the same job on a trial basis before we could hire one of them on a full-time basis. However, I was told by someone that this would only make those 2 team members avoid collaboration and become involved in a negative competition of sorts. Your thoughts on that Liam?
You could just have a testing stage part of your hiring strategy rather than hiring them both. There are many parts of the hiring process that you could incorporate to ensure you are hiring the right person without spending on 2 salaries, the test stage being 1 of them.
We use Asana. I love it but we use the free version which doesn't allow for milestones and overall project management. It charges per person per month. I struggle with overseeing the projects and tasks. Asana is not good for this aspect. As for using a time tracker it would not work for our organization because my team is often multi tasking with phone calls and emails and meetings etc. I also think it affects the morale of employees to track their time.
Liam Martin: Thank you for a nice job! I'm totally sold on your infrastructure of reporting that supports good contracts, and hence, good collaboration. Can I ask one question, please? People used to wonder why we need firms, and the answer was: transaction costs with individual workers would otherwise be too high. But you seem to have erased much of that. Could your disciplines enable a collaboration of freelancers, who would be loyal to you because of their extra professionalism and responsibility?
These were helpful tips, but I had to exit the video halfway due to the background audio being too distracting. Hopefully other videos of yours have a lower volume for the background noise!
Any rules that I left out? Please let me know.
love the watercooler chat idea! Subscribed
I only counted 18. You skipped 7 and 8 and then went from 13 to "16 or 17" and lost count.
Some good info though as I am (as with many others) forced to manage a remote team for the first time.
You were very informative. I have been running vtc's for the past 15 years and only a few of us worked remotely. These virtual meetings are great since I was working with the gov and we have employees all around the world. I have seen some wasted times during these vtc's and some great productive times. mostly great. Again, great job in this presentation.
I think one thing that has to be emphasized time and again while managing remote teams is that what they are doing with us is a real job (with prospects of career growth, a great future, and so on) as opposed to a non-critical freelance project.
Part of this can be emphasized when incentives like yearly retreats are mentioned, and part of them within the daily or weekly meetings.
Thanks for sharing! My take-away from this video:
1: Track hours worked, attendance and other basic measures of productivity
2: Implement systems
3: Allow a degree of flexible work hours but also keep some consistency
4: Track work output
5: Organize a system of overlapping times for communicating in different time zones.
6: Do a quarterly review to see how your virtual team members are coping
7: Compensate for the fact that you are not bumping into each other
8: Have a chat room open constantly
9: Be wary of Chat and Email overload
10: Choose the right communication style
11: Use tools for quick video or visual communication
12: Use screen sharing tools
13: Video conferencing technologies
14: Set up a meeting rhythm
15: Effective collaboration on documents and spreadsheets
16: Set up a project management system, and actually use it
17: Test new employees with short-term work before hiring them full time
18: Pay virtual team members well
19: Look for people who are the right fit for virtual work
20: Create a standard on-boarding process for educating new employees about your company
21: Inspire via video
22: Meet in person
23: Nurture virtual friendships
24: Create a true “team” feeling
25: Beware of a mixed office and remote culture
Wow, thanks for the breakdown! Can I add that into the description?
@@RunningRemote Sure!
What tools do you use to track your teams working hours?
@@shannonteaguebuildremoteteam 🤣😂
22? Oh, hell no.
Very informative! 100% agree! What that doesn't get measured, doesn't get managed. And if you don't meet people on a set time and rhythm, people can easily get distracted and tasks often don't get done effectively.
Some very useful points, thanks. One thing I would say is that the music is way too loud in your mix. Could barely hear you in some parts.
Thanks for the heads up Rikki, we'll reduce the audio track for the next one.
Totally agree, music is WAY too loud. I could barely stand to watch the entire video.
Thank you! I am starting a remote management position soon so this was a great introduction with great points to note!
Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts on rules of managing remote teams.
Fantastic presentation. I didn't notice the music nor did I think about the volume until I saw other comments. I think the volume is fine. You are a gem! So many gold nuggets in your presentation. I counted 18 tips, but non the less, keep up the great work!
Thanks Michael. Let me know if you'd like me to make a video on anything else.
Have you implemented any of the tips in your business?
Lower the music please !
I hear you Roberto. We have changed that for future videos.
Agreed. I could only watch about 5 minutes of this. At first the music was nice but then it got to be too distracting.
Tip 7&8 not discussed!
Yeah it’s unwatchable currently. Are you not able to edit that within TH-camStudio?
Excellent video! Lots of great points. I watched it once from beginning to end and then a couple times pausing and taking notes. Liked and subscribed! 👍🏽
Keep the great content coming.
Thanks Jonathan. Let me know if there is anything else you'd like me to work on.
What was your favourite part?
Hi.. Great video. I cannot access the link from the video on systems - can anyone share it with me? Appreciations!
Looking forward to more videos from this series!
Thank you sir for teaching us Rules for managing Remote
Great tips Liam! Enjoyed those.
Thanks a lot John, appreciate the kind words.
Where are number 7 and 8?
Thanks for this video! It exactly the info I was looking for. I'm in the process of recreating a remote team, I did a sort of 2 month trial run previously and it literally fell apart at the seems, workers did a half ass job on the project, which I still had to pay them for, I would upload projects and It won't be seen until it's too late... It was just a mess and its really because I hadn't had enough time to do most of the things you mentioned in this video so I've ceased the remote program for a while to do some more research on how I can keep it running effectively and this video really helped put things into perspective. I have a few questions though...
1. Is it necessary to have a face to face retreat / get together get together if it's a small team like 5-10 people?
2. That part about working with them part time before doing it full time, would it apply for remote workers since they're basically already working part-time? I'm guessing maybe that depends on the type of company, right?
3. Lastly, basecamp looks like just what I need but I realize that it costs 99/month (not that expensive for what its offering) but I just started this company and I haven't even create the perfect team yet that I know could get the job done so that I can afford the subscription so which online collab and communication tool would you suggest based on my situation?
1. Not necessary for the retreat until I'd say you're above 20.
2. I'd work with them 10-20 hours a week before going 40 hours a week.
3. Asana is free for up to 5 users I think?
For your last question, I recommend using Jira. It's free for up to 10 users and it's really powerful.
What is your hiring and onboarding process in your business? Do you still face the same struggles? Sounds like you are lacking systems and processes for this element of your business
Thanks for sharing your ideas on managing remote teams.
We have a company that different offices in 4 European countries. I found your tips to be quite on the point and true. Especially the one about work anytime, anywhere but attend the meetings. But the more tricky and important one was meeting each other once a year at someplace. We have these annual summer parties every year where we gather for about 2 days in one country and it's amazing how effective it is. We really get to know each other more and become friends rather than plain co-workers. During the year, when we see some flaws in the other person's work, we automatically try to help and not make a big deal out of it because of the friendship that was established in the summer parties.
One thing I can add to help the organization culture is a virtual coffee break every week and a channel (like a WhatsApp group) for everyone to share jokes which adds a bit color to the organization.
Great additions Ali. Hopefully once we can fly again you can do your company meetups again.
@@RunningRemote yes, this year we cancelled it due to the virus. It sucked. The summer parties were one of my favourite days of the year.
Those are always my suggestions, virtual coffee breaks and lunches
Informative session on rules for managing remote.learn 21 rules to manage remote teams Thank you for teaching us 21 rules
No worries!
Where is the indexing with timestamps linking to the chapters in the video? Like Below
0:00 INTRO
0:20 COMPENSATE FOR IN PERSON INTERACTION
1:25 CONSTANT VIRTUAL CHATROOM
Older video but we will get on that!
We talk quite a bit about the benefits of having Remote Teams -- it just opens the door to so much opportunity! Thanks for these tips - Subscribed!
We have dozens more. If there is something that you think I should cover let me know
@@RunningRemote Something that comes for leaders and others in Remote teams is working with difficult conversations - like how to interpret the emotional tone of a text-based conversation.
Opens a global talent pool, it is the most effective way to scale now in my opinion.
Excellent presentation and more informative. Thank you
Just started my company in social media and have been expanding to meet the demand. With new hired employee working remotely, it have been quite hard to manage. Thank you so much for this vid!
No worries! Congratulations on the new business.
What systems do you have in place you help you manage your teams?
Awesome tips! Thanks
could you please explain why i just only got 18 tips frm the video? i mean did you cut it or i just lacked some parts of the tips, as you said that video is the richest communications tool, but what i experienced is i lacked some points of your tips. however you stopped numbering frm 12:35 mins tho..please give me advice about it.
That's what the editor named the video. I'll go through them again and confirm but we might have edited some out. If you need some more rules I'm happy to send them over to you :)
Very innovative,thanks.
Most welcome 😊
Very informative session on the 21rules to manage Remote Teams. Thank you
Great tips. Nice that the essentials are distilled into only 21 easy steps. 😉❤️
Do you provide consulting services to setup a remote team company for R&D clean mobility
Heard of Zoho one?
Very Informative...
Thanks!
Really helpful tips in the current world. Thanks, Liam!
Let me know if you have any other questions Pablo!
Good informative session on the rules of manage remote teams
Good to know you've got employee in Nigeria.
Lagos for the win!
Very useful lecture and video... Thank you...
This is really useful, the scheduling and the systems information is really helpful
Informative session for managing remote teams. Thank you sir.
For the most part, I dislike watercooler conversations, big waste of time on pointless conversations. Thanks for the very useful tips
Useless to you (and to me as well) but a lot of people find it critical.
@@RunningRemote fair enough
You basically need to grin and bear it :)
Wonderful presentation. Thank you
Rules, tips will really help us.
The good news is I have been doing everything you recommended. I have an issue with your suggestion for idle chat. We use Google hangouts for chat but we limit it to important communication that we need an answer for within the hour.
I'd suggest you try out Twist or Slack, definitely more feature rich than google chat.
Probly the best video I’ve seen on this topic in a very long time
Great great great
The music was super relaxing lol
Thank you for nice presentation
Very informative session on the rules to manage Remote Teams.
About the watercooler idea: what if people generally don't want to spend their social time online? Can you expect them to socialize online anyways?
Find out what they like. Online gaming. Vr zoom calls and optimize towards that.
Sir you very nicely explained on the 5 tips ,very useful to us
Thank you so much sir for your informative session
Nice points ... Thank you
Good session on Managing remote Teams. Thank you so much sir
Very good video
So nice, let me know what else I can make for you.
Wonderful presentation sir
It is really excellent video.thank you sir.
Very great video thank you
great video, thanks
Useful Video.
Very nice
Thanks!
Usesful session. Thank you
Very essential information sir thank you
Useful session
I don't know if it's just me but after the tip number 6 you skip to tip number 9. Where is 7 and 8?
I was very drunk at the time.
Sir, Thank you very much for your 21 rules for managing remote teams for management 👍🙏
Very useful and helpful session Thanks sir
It is a nice talk. But I really hate the music behind.
We fixed it in future videos. Check those out.
Thank for your valuable excellent lecture.
I really appreciated this video. Didn’t even notice the music, but I was using earbuds, so maybe the sound was clearer? These tips were so timely for our organization. It’s clear that you speak from experience. I would love to see a video side by side comparing some of these tech tools, or at least clarifying some of the jargon. When I Google them, I find myself overwhelmed.
Any particular tools you got overwhelmed by? I am very much thinking of doing deeper reviews of each.
So what tools have you managed to use since this comment?:)
amazing man tanks
They are really interesting.
Very informative session
You mentioned 18 tips mate. :)
That's okay. It's not like we paid for 21 tips and got only 18. These all are quit useful tips.
Question. If a group of people working for a company are remote and they have individual projects, rather than the shared projects envisioned by scrums etc, what makes them a team and gives them a sense of a shared culture and belonging? Real question honestly. Post pandemic my team of staff will really only have me, their line manager, in common as they will be primarily home based. We will only need to come together for team meeting type discussions about processes and other changes affecting us individually equally. They can give each other ideas and advice on their own work but they don't actively collaborate. I'd like to support them to have a shared sense of being. Currently all TH-cam videos I've seen are on collaborating teams, would be great to hear more on this different kind of remote setup. Thanks.
Numbering wasn't in sequence and there weren't 21 rules - many missing - I guess you were checking whether everyone is paying attention. Anyways, good info.👌👍
Very informative presentation sir
Good content but the background music is VERY distracting
Wow i not expected you are from time doctor app i use it as well . Thanks for tips . One note i think in next videos dont use music in background is bit annoying. Is better just you talkit. Thank you
Check out the newer videos. That’s one of my old ones and we fixed it in future videos. Also if you want me to cover something else let me know.
What is the visual comm tool you use? Gem? Gin? Gyn? The music did it.
Jing?
Nice video. Would be nice to list them in the notes too
I think somebody did in the comments. It's a hearted comment at the top.
Nice information
Useful role for managing remote teams
Cool man, thanks
Thank you sir
Very good video!
bg music is so loud.. hard to hear you man!
But thanks was useful
16:00 is pure gold.
Great video
Thanks!
Very useful
amazing video, one note though, please lower the volume of the music, its so distracting
We did for future videos.
Good tips
Excellent tips.
We have had thought of using 2 part-time team members to do the same job on a trial basis before we could hire one of them on a full-time basis. However, I was told by someone that this would only make those 2 team members avoid collaboration and become involved in a negative competition of sorts.
Your thoughts on that Liam?
It’s just a test. Ideally they shouldn’t even know that the other person exists and give them the same tasks.
@@RunningRemote Good point. We are starting to work on this from next month onwards. Keep up the good work :).
You could just have a testing stage part of your hiring strategy rather than hiring them both. There are many parts of the hiring process that you could incorporate to ensure you are hiring the right person without spending on 2 salaries, the test stage being 1 of them.
Thanks and useful.
You're welcome joan!
Nice video sir ❤
Thanks! Is there any other ideas you'd like me to turn into videos for you?
We use Asana. I love it but we use the free version which doesn't allow for milestones and overall project management. It charges per person per month. I struggle with overseeing the projects and tasks. Asana is not good for this aspect.
As for using a time tracker it would not work for our organization because my team is often multi tasking with phone calls and emails and meetings etc. I also think it affects the morale of employees to track their time.
I'd give Time Doctor a try. It can run in the background and actually tell you if you're in flow state focus.
Background music is interrupting, too loud
Good speech
Liam Martin: Thank you for a nice job! I'm totally sold on your infrastructure of reporting that supports good contracts, and hence, good collaboration. Can I ask one question, please? People used to wonder why we need firms, and the answer was: transaction costs with individual workers would otherwise be too high. But you seem to have erased much of that. Could your disciplines enable a collaboration of freelancers, who would be loyal to you because of their extra professionalism and responsibility?
Here's another relevant guide for agile teams trying to embrace remote work th-cam.com/video/F2LJv82k_7o/w-d-xo.html
Nice tips but the background music need to be lower or removed. Difficult to focus with it.
We made the change for future videos. The future ones are much easier to understand.
We made the change for future videos. The future ones are much easier to understand.
big like and a new subscriber!
Thanks Rachel. Let me know what kinds of videos you would like me to make
If U guys have any system to produce the videos like this U should check to remove this background noise pretending to be kind of music.
👍
These were helpful tips, but I had to exit the video halfway due to the background audio being too distracting. Hopefully other videos of yours have a lower volume for the background noise!
They do.
The music is loud, and none of the applications you are talking about are allowed by my organization.
What’s your company? I could suggest some others for you, just let me know.
Hey Everyone Im looking to work with some coaches in creating virtual team if you know anyone please let me know thank you
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