It’s over three years since we were all required to work at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s easy to think, therefore, that the skills of leading a remote team would be completely integrated into the repertoire of every manager and leader by now.

Easy to think that. Less easy to find concrete evidence of it.

When everyone had to work from home, that was one challenge. Now that we’re free to choose and most organisations have embraced hybrid working to some degree, that’s a second challenge.

Here is my checklist for managing a hybrid-working team. It might not be exhaustive, but if you can say yes to everything on the list, you’re probably doing pretty well…

Do you…

• Know when people are in the office and when they’re not?
• Ensure you have a one-to-one with every member of your team at least monthly?
• Arrange opportunities for the whole team to come together regularly?
• Know what facilities each person has for working at home?
• Know what each person is working on each week?
• Build in time to circulate and chat every time you’re in the office?
• Feel confident you could spot it if someone in your team was struggling in some way?
• Celebrate successes as a team?
• Know what specifically motivates each person in your team?
• Believe that everyone is using the opportunity for hybrid working to their best advantage?

 

If you’d like to have a conversation with me about any of the items on the list or anything to do with your team and how to be the leader your team needs, click here to book a call with me.