Make managing remote teams easy with automation | Automation South Africa

by | Sep 16, 2021 | Automation, Business Process Automation, Hyper Automation, IT Automation, Marketing Automation, Robotic Process Automation, RPA

Using automation to manage your teams remotely

Taking on remote work is an effective way to future-proof your business and offer what a growing variety of job seekers are searching for – flexibility and security. Managing remote teams effectively can take businesses to the next level.

Many business leaders think that remote work and flexibility can improve productivity. Additionally, business owners have found that groups that encourage remote work have a 25% lower employee turnover than those that don’t.

All of this considered remote work isn’t challenge-free – in particular for managers. Automation can step in, and assist solve this.

Challenges of managing remote teams

  • Tracking: Keeping a clear view of how your direct reports are performing as well as what tasks they’re thriving on and struggling with is tricky from a distance.
  • Collaboration: With a distanced team, you can fall into the trap of existing in silos rather than working collaboratively.
  • Leadership: To lead a remote team, you can’t simply stroll around the office and check in with your colleagues. It requires a more mindful effort to set up meetings, chat with everyone, and work collectively as a team.
  • Morale: It requires one-of-a-kind strategies to build strong bonds and truly be aware of everyone.

Effectively managing your team requires clear processes to sustain the 4 pillars mentioned above. By automating your workflows, you can help your team become more productive, collaborative and deliver on schedule.

Benefits of automating your team

1. Automate project management

You can easily assign tasks to your team and track their progress from one convenient location. Work operating systems can simplify this process – we recommend Monday.com South Africa for this. You can set up the system to notify you every time a task is updated or changed so that you never miss a beat.

2. Create reminders

As a manager, spending hours of your day chasing up on overdue work is the last thing you want to do. And yet… it needs to happen. So, rather than doing this manually, you can create alerts to be sent out when a deadline is a day away to make the necessary adjustments to meet it or ask for an extension.

3. Schedule meetings in bulk

Just like any in-office team, meetings offer a space for collaboration and checks in with everyone.

You can set up regular meetings to promote a collaborative space even if your team is in different spaces.

If you are ready to get your automation journey, contact us today. We’ll have one of our team members contact you to determine your needs.