Upgrading Remote Team Collaboration

“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses or the problems of modern society.” - Vince Lombardi

?Hey folks,? Imagine. You are on Zoom with your team to discuss the consistently delayed projects lately. You ask (with a sweet voice), "Folks, what are our goals for this quarter?"

You expect to hear simple statements and just move on with the discussion. But all you start hearing is "Blah, blah, blah..." Now, you may be losing your calm here.

But before tackling this your way, just know there could be a more effective and long-lasting method.

Since we are talking about collaboration in a remote work environment, let's try to identify the specific problems first.

These problems have something in common. They all make fundamental business growth and development difficult.

Now, let's see one approach to tackling these problems using a different goal-setting framework we use and advocate for.

Some of our core team members, mainly the Product Development team, work remotely. And within a quarter, we saw how our goal-setting brought super clarity.

This is crucial for a small team like ours (20+ heads). And we are all responsible for business development!

Below is a brief description of how we coordinate better with our remote team.?

6 Tips to Enable Your Remote People to Collaborate Actively

Planning starts with the top leaders deciding on the long and short-term business objectives based on the “Vision.” Next, we follow a simple OKR framework to:

1. Brainstorm Further Goals

In every strategic cycle, discuss and create individual and team goals that contribute to the top-level business goals. This builds accountability and trust.

2. Peer-Peer Alignment

Allow the team to identify potential synergies and dependencies. Make this tangible using cross-functional goals and adding contributors.

3. Implement the OKR Framework

Ensure team collaboration is smooth by aligning these goals as OKRs and following the relevant best practices.

4. Make These Goals a Top Priority (Business Development)

Think of these interconnected goals as your business North Star. Your usual business operations happen simultaneously.

5. Have Regular Progress Check-ins

Gather to discuss progress on these goals weekly or on your cadence. You reinforce accountability and tackle roadblocks collaboratively.

6. Have a Dedicated Channel for Goals-related Discussions

We suggest you use a dedicated OKR platform for centralized collaboration and transparency of goals.

This is all we suggest for any organization that struggles to establish intuitive collaboration because your team leads this collaboration on the goals.

Moreover, we can help any organization establish a collaborative work culture with personalized consultation and a dedicated OKR platform.

Creating High-Performance Culture for Remote Teams (Webinar)

It's difficult to establish active collaboration among your remote employees for new companies.

But maybe we could learn from the companies that have adapted to this new working method.

Listen to the experts talk about remote working culture and suggest practical ways to enhance remote people's performance.

Watch the webinar

Linking Business and People Performance (Another webinar)j

This discussion goes about aligning your people's performance with the business.

Join us where two seasoned business leaders talk about how this simple alignment is easier said than done and what to do about it.

Watch the webinar

Did you know? We help teams set meaningful goals to establish better team collaboration on core business initiatives.

If you want to create goals that help your teams align and focus on business growth, talk to our OKR and Strategy Execution Experts. ?

Talk to a goal-setting expert!