Leadership Tools: If They Work For Remote Work, They'll Work For Regular Work, Too

Looking for some guidelines to help hire and manage remote workers? Outside of determining is remote work in general is right for your team or company, guidelines and objectives are very similar working with traditional teams. To succeed in remote worker hiring and management a six point framework can be utilized.

1. Have clear goals, objectives and duties when looking for people to hire.

2. Don't assign tasks that aren't a good fit for remote work. Obviously, we shouldn't assign tasks to people in other positions that aren't a good fit for their role and position.

3. Make sure task scope and number are appropriate for the team goals and requirements.

4. Make sure the right online tools are in place. When working on site, the right tools, in the right place, with the right team member is critical, as well.

5. Don't micromanage. This kind of leadership style doesn't work online, in the trailer, at the office or anywhere as far as I know.

6. Treat remote workers as part of the company or team. This can be easily adapted to jobsite and trailer based teams too. Construction pros working in the trailer can feel left out and forgotten from the mothership corporate office if leadership doesn't make effort to include them.

While leadership articles and guides focused on remote or online work are numerous and popular in the days of COVID, most of the lessons have been and are relevant to more traditional jobsite, trailer and office work environments.