Managing remote teams can be a bit of a challenge. It’s hard enough to keep everyone on task when a dog is barking in the background and three people on your conference call are in their cars. Now you have to train them?!
Well, yes, you do have to train them. In fact, good employee training may be the most important element in effectively managing virtual teams. Great corporate training adds consistency across long distances, and it can even create powerful bonds among your virtual team. Unfortunately, training remotely has some of the same difficulties as other virtual work — it’s hard to monitor compliance and even harder to keep workers focused and on task.
But, warts and all, remote teams are here to stay, and we have to learn not only to work with them, but to excel with them. Here are five tips that can help with those remote training woes.
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