• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

InFront on the Workforce

Long-term and post-acute care publication

Subscribe | Events | Advertise | Contact Us

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Who We Are & What We Do
    • The Vision
    • Readership
  • RESOURCES
    • Important Links
  • Retention & Engagement
  • Culture & Leadership
  • Regulatory
  • Technology
  • Industry Trends

(3/25) 8 Ways to Manage Your Team While Social Distancing

By Joanne Kaldy / March 25, 2020

Meetings, hallway huddles, and other ways teams commonly work are out the window in the new world of social distancing. Consider these ways to help your teams function when they can’t work shoulder to shoulder:

  • Reset Expectations. Change how you expect work to get done and how tasks are accomplished. Focus on results and offer as much flexibility as possible, including extended deadlines.
  • Stay in regular touch. Use instant messaging and other tools to enable constant contact and quick response to questions or concerns.
  • Support continued learning but keep it short and simple.
  • Assign buddies/peer coaches to provide additional support.
  • Realize that it’s harder to read emotional cues when you’re communicating remotely. Watch the inflection, pitch, and volume of your voice on calls and gestures and facial expressions in video conferences.
  • Model optimism and positivity.
  • Update and check-in even when there is no update.
  • Continually gauge stress and engagement levels.

Read the full article.

Related Posts

  • (3/1) Helping Employees Manage Conflict
  • (6/3) What Mindfulness Can Do for a Team
  • (8/28) How To Encourage Inclusivity on Your Team
  • (3/6) 4 Ways to Make Employees Your Best Asset
  • (8/2) 4 Creative Ways to Make Your Training Relatable

Categories: HR Industry Brief /

Primary Sidebar

AROUND THE WEB

Items of interest from across the web.

  • As More States Are Legalizing Marijuana, How Should Employers Respond – HR Executive
  • Giving Thanks for Senior Living Employees, Leaders — McKnights
  • 22 States Petition CMS to End Mandate As 76% of SNF Staff Behind on Vaccines – Skilled Nursing News
  • 6 Ways to Re-energize a Depleted Team – Harvard Business Review
  • 7 Ways to Lift Up the Employees’ Morale Ahead of Holiday Season — Entrepreneur
  • Workforce, Financial Relief Focus in ‘Tumultuous Period’ After Midterms: Argentum – McKnights
  • 6 Steps to Creating More Inclusive Job Descriptions – HR Morning
  • Mental Wellbeing and Resilience: Tech + Culture to the Rescue – HR Daily Advisor
  • Employers Have ‘Flexibility Fatigue.’ But That Could Put Them on the Wrong Side of the ADA. – HR Dive(11/16) Employers Must Push Preventive Care to Inflation-Worried Staff – TLNT

View All

CONTACT INFO

Publisher: CC Andrews
440.638.6990
Editor: Joanne Kaldy

PO Box 360727
Cleveland, OH 44136

CATEGORIES

  • CULTURE & LEADERSHIP
  • RETENTION & ENGAGEMENT
  • REGULATORY
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • TRENDS IN THE INDUSTRY

Copyright © 2023 - InFrontWorkforce.com. All rights reserved.