Jason A. Duprat, Entrepreneur, Healthcare Practitioner and Host of the Healthcare Entrepreneur Academy Podcast provides tips for remote team management. During COVID-19, many people are now working from home. Jason highlights how you can successfully manage your team using the right software tools to optimize performance, communication, and outcomes.
Episode Highlights:
- Jason has been working completely online for his business for the last three years.
- Working remotely requires an outcomes-driven mindset.
- You need to get comfortable working in an asynchronous environment. Employees don’t have to necessarily work 9am-5pm. It’s most important to get the job done.
- Giving employees flexibility with their work hours creates happy employees. You’ll find they’ll go beyond what’s needed as not many companies offer this flexibility.
- Project management tools allow you to create projects, form teams, assign tasks, manage chats, set due dates, identify followers of tasks, and make comments.
- Project management software tools include Asana, Trello, and Basecamp.
- Jason initially started his team communications via texting and Facebook Messenger. However, Messenger doesn’t allow you to categorize and track messages or have team chats.
- Jason uses Slack for his team communication. For video communication, he recommends Zoom or Google Hangouts. Zoom has a nominal cost and allows you to record the meeting. Google Hangouts is free.
- Google Docs makes documents easy to share and tracks who’s made changes and allows for easy storage.
- Keep meetings as limited in time and frequency as possible to avoid wasting time. Jason has a 1x weekly 45-minute marketing meeting to track data and ROI on his monthly ad spends.
3 Key Points:
- Employees will be happier with the schedule flexibility of working remotely.
- Tools for working remotely include Asana, Trello, or Basecamp for project management and Slack, Zoom, and Google Docs for communication.
- When working remotely, you should host meetings but keep them short and on a ‘need to know’ basis to keep the group discussion focused.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “You have to shift your mindset as an online entrepreneur or somebody who’s going to conduct a lot of business online. You have to shift your mindset to an outcomes-driven mindset.” – Jason A. Duprat
- “When you’re running your team remotely, the most important thing is they’re able to meet the outcomes you as the entrepreneur are setting for them.” – Jason A. Duprat
- “Zoom does record your meetings for you. So, if you need to go back and reference, that’s great to have.” – Jason A. Duprat
Resources Mentioned:
Google Docs: docs.google.com