A How To Guide
Strategies for Remotely Onboarding New Employees
Tips that extend beyond their first day
Remotely onboarding and managing new employees brings a unique set of challenges:
How to make sure they’re working?
How to figure out how much work they can handle?
How hands on or off to manage them?
How to encourage them to try harder, and take on additional responsibility?
For an Employee no face time means that if she works harder, she has more free time outside of work to enjoy her life. This incentivizes her to work smarter.
For a Manager no face time means that she needs to figure out a new way of monitoring and managing her employees. A successful manager will harness her employee’s desire to work smarter for the good of the company.
Pushing employees to their absolute limits, encouraging ownership, and being a safe and readily available resource are the keys to setting up long-term success. As President of a fully remote Company prior to Coronavirus, I learned this through trial and error.
