Worried about managing your team working remotely & still delivering to clients?
With a global health crisis underway, this is a challenge for all of us particularly with the advisements from government agencies in many countries to practise social distancing and contingency planning. Our Clinked team has seen an increase in inquiries from clients and prospective organisations on how to use our cloud-based SaaS product as a much needed short-term solution to deliver consistency for client and flexibility to teams.
Rather than keeping these conversations to ourselves, we’re sharing with you the tips we’ve been discussing. Hope these tips help!
The coronavirus has brought the idea of “work from home” back into the fray of management conversations for many organisations planning their approach. The increase of cloud-based SaaS technology adoption throughout many organisations is now allowing a portion of workers this option to work remotely easy when pairs with a solid internet connection. Increasingly organisations have found these technologies help teams work fluidly while delivering consistently to clients.
Your organisation may be part of these prepared technologically to allow their teams to work from home or not – and you’re facing this challenge for the first time with a need to quickly find a flexible solution to reduce disruption to your business.
For those already technologically setup, the switch is in the hands of managers and individuals. First step is changing your mindset, practices and environment to get work done. A team and individual will need to workout how to be success working from home the first time.
CNN Business created a great article addressing this with the following top tips. 1
Our Clinked team works remote frequently. Fortunately, we can use Clinked as our technology platform to keep consistency for our clients while being productive as a team through an all in one system to chat, set calendars and work collaboratively as a team. We asked our team for top tips to help work remote once the above are setup – here’s what they had to say:
First time evaluating work remote option for your organisation?
For those not technologically setup, there are many factors to consider when finding the right solution? There is timing (setup & use), budget, process, security, etc. to evaluate. Many smaller or medium sized organisations have not had to consider this option or the factors. However, your organisation may be ready to take the actions from a concern point of view and know technology is how the likes of the biggest players in your market are handling it.
Don't stress – Clinked is here to help!
It’s tough to know where to turn and how to manage the processes. From our standpoint, we all know the why (hello coronavirus risk & organisational responsibility), but what about the how, who, what, and when.
Here’s our run down of the things we share with others & practice at Clinked:
You may be a decision maker or a teammate trying to plan ahead for the worst case. Regardless of your role, being agile and adjusting your practices is a challenge - Clinked can help you evaluate the options and we're here to talk.
Our team is here to discuss how Clinked.com can quickly & flexibly deliver with our secure, branded and mobile platform - setup in 3 mins flat w/no long-term commitment.