How to successfully manage a remote team
The key to managing a remote team lies in facilitating productive meetings that bridge the distance between coworkers. Besides making social cues available virtually via conferencing tools, remote teams should be able to provide progress updates and remain accountable. And this is possible when everyone feels included and involved in conversations, decisions and actions.A) Managing a Remote Team

- Adjusting the mindset
- Communicating often
- Provide the right tools
- Implementing a work buddy system
B) 7 tips for Managing remote teams

- Hiring the right people
- Using the right remote work tools
- Organizing a work plan
- Articulating project goals clearly.
- Keeping lines of communication open
- Building trust
- Developing a happy, engaged team.
C) 10 Ways To Successfully Manage A Team Whilst Working Remotely

- Hiring doers, hiring people you trust, trusting the people who are hired, and effective communicators.
- Getting people habituated to daily communication
- Making time for small talk and recreating office banter virtually.
- Setting times for availability outside of scheduled hours for one on one talk.
- Using the right project management tool to track activities and duration.
- Video conferencing
D) Everything you need to manage a virtual team.

- Processes: standardized onboarding, operations document, communication guidebook and contact information for remote workers.
- Regularizing meetings and reviews.
- Holding face-to-face time
- Timezone sensitivity
- Getting hiring right
- Tools for screen recording, sharing and capturing, video and instant messaging, collaboration, project management and file sharing.
- Cultivating the right mindset to be inclusive, welcoming and supportive.
- Giving recognition
- Encouraging flex-work hours
E) Effective Remote working

- Know your timezones
- Use the right technology
- Have facetime
- Self-discipline
F) Managing Remote Teams: Could these fictional bosses do it?
