Tips and tricks to become better at remote work using Slack. This deck offers tips for running asynchronous meetings and simple techniques you can use to foster employee engagement in a remote team.

1. Tips for every remote team manager
Better Remote Team Meetings

2. Agenda
1. Communication is key
2. Challenges
3. Solution framework
4. Routines
5. Case study

3. 1. Work-from-anywhere workplace is the future,
and team managers need to adapt NOW
2. Communication is key to successful remote
team management
3. Team managers need to facilitate and promote
effective team communication

4. Challenges
● Creating level field for all
● Low bandwidth communication
● Too many meetings - Zoom fatigue
● Lack of osmosis learning
● Keeping the team in sync

5. Solution Framework
● Over communicate
● Intentional approach
● Bias towards async
● Invest in tools
● Trust your team

6. Routines 1. Daily Standup
2. Monthly Retrospective
2 easy but powerful routines

7. Case study
Slack based Check-ins because..
● Slack is where your team is
● Your team doesn't need to learn another tool
● Async format allow for uninterrupted team work
● Easily integrates with your collaboration tools

8. DEMO
Troopr Daily Standup Check-ins
Troopr Monthly Retrospective Check-ins

10. Engagement in the times of remote work
● How do you battle loneliness?
● How do you foster serendipity?
● How do you celebrate certain behavior?
● How do you ensure people connect on things bigger than their projects?
● How do you bring in a sense of mission?

11. 5 simple things you can do right now
● Virtual coffee - online coffee meeting room that is open to everybody all.
● AMA - Call out people to do AMA’s on topics related or unrelated to work.
● Wellness channel - dedicate a channel to wellness and fitness
● Recognitions - celebrate and recognise great work and effort
● Small ideas - get your people to contribute small ideas to create 1%
improvements

12. Virtual Coffee
● Dedicate a channel #virtual-coffee to people calling other people for coffee at
any time
● Pin the meeting link on this channel to ensure everyone knows where to
login
● Set up a reminder to be posted on #general at Xpm everyday calling
everyone to come for coffee (use soft language like ‘who’s up for a virtual
coffee’?)
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20160112-in-sweden-you-have-to-stop-work-to-chat

13. Ask Me Anything
When people discuss their interests, they form bonds and are more likely to make non
linear associations. The easiest way to kickstart serendipity is to let people do AMAs.
1. Invite a person to do
an AMA.
2. Set up a live meeting
or an online chat
session for this.
3. Do this 2 or 3 times
and then hopefully
people will take over.

14. Wellness
Doing physical exercises together can be a great way to bond and foster trust. All
the armies of the world are built on this concept :) Not to mention physical fitness
is linked to feeling happier.
1. Start a #wellness channel to
discuss ideas to remain
healthy. Let people inspire
each other on their habits.
2. Use group challenges like daily
step counts, lifting weights
together, mindfulness
exercises, etc.

15. Recognitions
Whatever you celebrate or recognise becomes your culture. Slack is a great way
to celebrate wins.
Use Slackbot custom responses and a simple Zap to pick up and
record all recognitions for your team members on Slack. -> live demo.

16. Small ideas
Tiny improvements, coming from people, go a long way in setting up engaged and
productive workplaces. When people take ownership and contribute to these tiny
improvements, they feel a higher sense of purpose. Link to HBR article
https://hbr.org/2008/02/when-small-ideas-add-up-to-som
1. Dedicate a channel to #small-ideas
2. Set up a simple workflow that takes in
the idea and possible impact to give
ideas a structure
3. Post ideas to the channel and let people
vote on these ideas

17. Small ideas