It can be easy to put team-building activities on the back burner these days. However, it's a leader's job to ensure the team is engaged and functioning well. These are some ideas to help managers create ways for cultivating connections and creating occasions for social interactions while we're all working apart.
Effective management is empathetic management. Understanding your employees' strengths, weaknesses and approach to work will increase creativity, resilience and results.
Whether you're managing a team virtually short-term in response to the COVID-19 crisis or are choosing to make work virtual long-term, it's important to address the unique challenges that come with virtual management. Here's how.