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Today’s Tip

Set Up Virtual Office Hours for Your Team

Employees often rely on informal conversations with their boss to stay up to date on important decisions and information. If your team is newly remote, you can recreate these opportunities by setting up virtual office hours. This might be an hour each day during which you invite your team members to join you on a video conference so you can address small questions or concerns. When one person joins, you can lock the meeting and have others wait in an online waiting room — the virtual version of shutting the office door. (Of course, for more in-depth conversations, ask people to schedule a meeting.) Carving out dedicated time to deal with the daily flurry of small issues will help your team feel seen and heard, even from afar.

This tip is adapted from “How Managers Can Support Remote Employees,” by Sabina Nawaz