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If you want to manage your remote team, the first thing you need is to figure out what they need. The next thing you need is to figure out how to communicate with them effectively without an overload of virtual meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s fairly simple, but the problem is that most people think it’s hard. They don’t realize that there are already tools for doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are tools for managing distributed teams, tools for dealing with telecommuting and remote work and virtual work, and tools for working from home and from other locations. These tools have been around for decades, ever since we realized that companies needed to be able to communicate with their employees no matter where they were, whether or not those employees were in the office or on the telephone or even in the same room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How does it work? Well, let’s take a look at some examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meetings are inefficient and waste time. They can be an effective means of communication if you know how to use them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first step is to avoid meetings with people who don’t need them. In many companies, the people who don’t need meetings are the ones who schedule the meetings. They call everyone together to tell them about a new feature or to explain a policy change or make a decision, then go away and do nothing with all that information. That gives their subordinates plenty of time to pour over it\u2014and wonder whether they should intervene on their boss’s behalf. If we want our meetings to be useful, the people who schedule them must leave out all the parts that aren’t necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second step is to limit them to what’s needed. In most companies each meeting has a very specific purpose: It is about something concrete, like a particular task or person’s performance problem, and it takes place in a particular space: the conference room next door or the conference room in the other building. Within those constraints there is no reason why everyone can’t have their say in private: emailing, sending files, getting responses on slack\u2014whatever works best for each person’s work habits. The only real constraint is that we organize our meetings around concrete tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are RisePath<\/a>\u2019s tips on how to get around this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n