From the course: Empathy Tips for HR Professionals

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Manage remote teams with empathy

Manage remote teams with empathy

- Are you finding it challenging to manage a distributed team? You are certainly not alone. It is very different, rallying, supervising, and monitoring a team, when some people are not in the office. You can't just drop by someone's cubicle to see if they have questions, or catch up over lunch and check in on their progress. How do you know who's on track, who's struggling? Managing a multi-location team takes focused efforts to adjust to, and empathy skills can help you do it effectively. Putting yourself in each of your team members situations, you can understand their experience and needs, and you're better able to help them, achieve their individual and team goals. Before any project starts, connect with each team member to gather intelligence, about how and when they work best, how comfortable they are with different applications and software and other key factors, so you can best support them. This empathetic…

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