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The current health context and changes in working patterns increasingly favour teleworking. Teleworking, and in general a more connected and nomadic lifestyle, are gradually taking hold. Understanding the challenges of teleworking and knowing how to adapt to them is therefore essential for companies. Remote management is complicated for managers who are used to managing their teams in person. Team management, communication and cohesion are totally different. How can you successfully manage your teams from a distance? How to manage your teams well? How to train for this style of management? The following lines will answer all your questions.

Psychosocial risks

What are the challenges of remote management?

Remote relationships are more complex to manage than physical ones. Managers who wish to work remotely must be able to lead a team that does not work from the company's premises. There are many challenges:

• The managerial challenge: the manager must manage to maintain a good group cohesion, to lead his team, to motivate each employee and to make them responsible.
• The organisational challenge: managing a schedule, allocating tasks and monitoring their progress is complex at a distance. The manager must be able to set objectives and enable his staff to achieve them while setting up performance indicators (KPI).
• The relational challenge: managers must maintain the trust of their team members and prevent the psychosocial risks arising from remote working (difficult management of stress, time and priorities, demotivation, feelings of isolation, little leisure time, difficulty in working from one's personal environment, etc.).

How to manage your teams at a distance?

Are you a manager who wants to develop your skills in managing your teleworkers? Have you taken a traditional management course and don't know how to manage remote teams? Don't panic: you can learn to manage remote teams. Here are a few important levers for successful remote management.
 

Establish appropriate working and communication methods

The first changes that need to be made when working remotely are in the way the team leader and his colleagues communicate. As they cannot exchange information in person, all those involved in the project must plan regular meetings to remain coherent and work in the same direction. To do this, they must use the digital means at their disposal (instant messaging, sending emails, sms, calls, video conferencing software, etc.). The role of the manager is to encourage exchanges: teams that share and communicate are more efficient and more motivated.
 

Developing working relationships based on trust

Leading a team means being able to trust your employees. They work autonomously and should not be infantilised or feel oppressed by their superiors. A good manager must be able to control the work in an appropriate way (monitoring and reframing all day long is definitely detrimental to individual and collective performance), but also to give responsibility to the various employees. They need to feel supported and confident to work effectively.
 

Define clear objectives

Managing a team from a distance means providing clear information, allowing employees to work independently. Each project, each mission must be perfectly thought out, defined and explained. The ability to set up an adapted project management and a certain pedagogical approach are required when working remotely. Everything must be thought out so that the participants can work serenely, without confusion.

Training course in remote management

Why train in distance management?

Managers who are used to managing at a distance and who wish to start managing at a distance have every interest in training themselves, as you have understood. Doing proximity management and managing a remote team implies using different management techniques. There are many remote team management training courses that enable you to acquire all the managerial skills required to manage a remote project. Many needs are emerging and this way of working has many specificities. We therefore propose a training course in remote management. This training does not enable you to become a manager and is aimed at managers who have already been trained. It lasts 2 days, either remotely or in person, and enables you to learn how to digitalise tasks while maintaining motivation and cohesion within a group. Composed of theoretical and practical contributions, the remote management training course is ideal for those seeking to follow the evolution of new forms and methods of work.

You now know why and how to train in distance management. Would you like to acquire new management skills? Do not hesitate to consult our training programme or to contact us. ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ will support you in your professional project and answer all your questions.