The CoVid-19 pandemic has unintentionally contributed to the largest remote working experiment in history. As companies around the world are scrambling to get back to business as usual, productivity has taken a big hit. Workers who are not used to working remotely have been the biggest casualties due to this.

If you are managing a remote team at this point, the most important question right now is how do you ensure a seamless workflow in this changing workplace. Here are a few tips to get you through.

Pick The Right Collaboration Tool

When you are working remotely, you do not get an opportunity to walk up to your teammates to discuss and get things done. As a result, things appear to happen slower than usual. This is not necessarily true. While remote working can be take away face to face meetings and thus seem less productive, they also enable a more organized workplace framework. 

Online collaboration tools make it possible for you to organize your work into discrete tasks. These tasks can then be shared with the relevant teammates who can then add comments so that every step of the work process is now documented for future reference. 

In some ways, work carried out with collaboration tools is exactly how your work should have always been. 

Invest In The Right Online Meeting Tools

In a regular office setup, teams often have standup meetings every morning to update each other on the progress made with various tasks. In a remote setup, this can be a little overwhelming primarily because connectivity issues can ruin a smooth workflow. 

First things first – when it comes to remote work tools, do not go just by the price of the product. Make full use of the free trials offered to pick a tool that is seamless as well as user-friendly. For instance, although Skype is widely used for video calls, it fails to perform in a business setting. Here, Zoom or alternatives like Whereby are a lot more seamless and effective.

Create Digital Tools For Customer Transactions

Businesses with a large online presence may not realize it, but there are still tons of small businesses where transactions happen in cash in a face-to-face setting. Such transactions are not possible anymore in a remote work setup. 

For a business to go on, as usual, it is important for your cash flow to sustain its pre-lockdown period. For this, you must establish a digital transaction setup for your business at the earliest. This allows your customers to pay you for your product or service remotely without having to visit you in your office. Setting this is not very difficult and tools like Stripe and Paypal make this process extremely simple and straightforward. If you have your website built using tools like Wix, these payment integrations come in-built for you to simply plug and play. This rope access training calendar page on the Graviteq website is a good example of how this can be executed.

Break Tasks Into Goals

The problem with working remotely is that you do not have peers to use as soundboards. Consequently, there are often cases where workers tend to veer off the stated objectives of the project and end up spending too much time working on something that is not entirely relevant. One way to stop this from happening is by breaking down your larger objectives into small, bite-sized goals. In doing this, you will be in a position to create smaller objectives that can be accomplished over a day’s work. This way, workers can stay focused on the job at hand and also be efficient in accomplishing their daily stated goals. 

In conclusion, it is worth remembering that the remote work culture is here to stay long after the Coronavirus pandemic is gone. Finding out a good strategy to deal with the inefficiencies of remote work will go a long way in establishing processes that can make your job seamless and as effective as a regular office setup.