The Strategic Management of Home Based Employees

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Since the demand of home based workers is increasing, it is important to build up an appropriate strategy to manage them. To design a network of highly skilled and organized team members can be the most challenging factor for a team manager, especially when it comes about virtual home based employees.

At the first place, an efficient team manager must have an idea about different time zones, if he / she is about to set up the virtual team on a global basis. In addition, the team manager must possess the idea and knowledge about different updated technology and cross-cultural understanding.

The team leaders must possess the ability to collect contact information and have the skills to get to know each other smoothly. They must be able to make it clear the individual role to the other person concerned in relation to the goal and strategy to meet up the goal. They also set a rule of communication and make the best possible way to maintain the method of communication.

If you are about to work as a team manager, make it sure that you have broadened your communication skills to get in touch with the people sitting at the remote base. You must possess the skill to understand the people sitting at their own home couch. You must not show unnecessary suspicion. Rather you should have an intuitive skill to read the person in the other end.

Moreover, you must not count on the processes, rather put your focus on the performance measure. It is important that you maximize the communication with your remote team members and set the objectives on short term basis. Restating and reinforcing short term objective improves the degree of meeting the goal set. You must encourage your team members to use instant messaging and conference facility to improve virtual communication. Allow your team to meet you face-to-face at least once in a quarter. Scheduling a social event in every quarter can help to make the communication more effective.

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