How to Ensure Optimum Utilization of your Remote Teams

Remote team is the new normal. More and more businesses are relying on an entire remote team strategy to run their operations. But they are still battling for the right answer to “are my remote teams a 100% utilized?”

There was a time when remote work was considered a privilege, made available only to a select few under extra ordinary situations.

But, the tables have taken a 180 degree turn. COVID-19 pandemic has made it highly unsafe to be out of our homes. Yet clients need to be serviced, bills need to be paid and businesses need to run full steam.

The initial months of 2020 were more about being safe and absolutely indoors. As the new world order came to life, it was understood that COVID-19 is here to stay and our businesses and lives need to work around and with it. No choice whatsoever.

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Project Management Leadership for Remote Teams

Business disruption globally due to COVID-19 has called for on the fly evolution of project management leadership and remote teams. Organizations with a matured work from home strategy have been able to adapt to the changing business scenario faster than others.

Getting the business operational with functional remote teams and crisis management teams was just the beginning.

The initial sole objective was to protect the organization, the customers’ interests and its employees.

But as companies got back on their feet with the right set of remote team deployment, a lot of unprecedented challenges came to the fore.

Dispelling fears, motivating employees, keeping the eye on the goal, answering to anxious customers and till continuing to deliver business as usual has been an uphill task for organizations the world over.

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How to Make the Work from Home Transition Effective

Remote teams and Work from Home are here to stay. They are not the trend but the norm! Teams across the globe are adopting project management & virtual collaboration tools such as Orangescrum to make the work from home transition smoother.

WFH isn’t a new phenomenon but has been around for over a decade with last 5 years showing at least 44% of US professional work half their work week remotely.

More and more tech savvy businesses and new age entrepreneurs have chosen to run an entirely remote company.

Let’s get back to the recent economic slowdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic and why remote teams and work from home has gained so much traction.

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How to Work with Remote Team Challenges Successfully

Businesses are waking up to numerous remote team challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unless you have had some remote work experience or are a fully remote team, running your operations smoothly is a nightmare.

But nothing to worry. Unusual times lead to unusual solutions.

One has to look for solutions that are

• very common & known
• driven by situations (case on case basis)
• result of improvising existing processes

Remote team and project management are at the heart of all remote work management strategy at the moment.

“Think remote, think virtual” is the driving force at the moment. A single silver bullet looked upon by business leaders, entrepreneurs, project managers and team members.

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Best Tips to Work From Home in Covid-19

COVID-19 pandemic has presented quite an unusual challenge. It has disrupted normalcy across all aspects of human life. Countries around the world are in a lockdown mode right from businesses, educational institutes, shopping districts and all such places where people can gather.

Hence, businesses have resorted to absolute remote work strategies with a very lean on ground workforce.

Top companies like Google, Microsoft, Twitter. Hitachi, Apple, Amazon, Salesforce, Orangescrum has asked their employees to work-from-home to support the prevention of the corona spread.

It’s not a difficult task for the tech-savvy businesses as they have the tools, processes and set up to hit the ground running with remote offices and work from home options.

The challenge is for those businesses who never considered remote work and neither have any established policies and measures in place.

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