How To Motivate A Remote Team

Motivation is tricky for all teams, co-located or remote. It’s hard for many team managers to find a way that motivates each individual. And it’s even harder to find way to motivate the team as a whole. But, co-located teams have a lot of advantages. When you’re seeing each other day to day, you get a better picture at what’s going on behind the scenes in someone’s mind and what you could latch onto to inspire and motivate them.

In a remote team, that’s a whole lot harder.

There’s a lot of barriers to, well, a lot of things on remote teams. Uncovering what drives the individuals on your team is one of them. But, done well, distance doesn’t have to be a barrier to motivating your team as a leader. So in this article, we’ll review four methods you can use to motivate any team, but especially a team that’s been asked to work from afar.

Check In Frequently

The first method you need to motivate a remote team is to check in frequently. You don’t need to just check in frequently with the whole team, but with every individual on the team separately. If you were ever a co-located team, this happened organically. You would walk into the office or walk out to lunch or see someone in the hallway, and you’d be able to chat. You would hear about their frustrations. You would hear about whether or not they’re making…