Building a Functional & Successful Start-up with a Remote Team

Building a Functional & Successful Start-
up with a Remote Team

Introduction

With the advancement and development in technology, major amends are
observed in the business world. One of the major shifts that people have seen is
the working scenario from the geography, physical locations, and office
premises. With the remote work culture, technology has allowed businesses to
work from anywhere across the globe and effective management of such
dispersed teams. These days companies have promoted flexible timings, remote
work, work from home scenarios which leads to a balanced life, enhanced work
experience for the employees. These changes have proven to be very beneficial for
start-ups.

Remote Work and Start-ups

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It is very challenging for start-ups to find the right talent from around the world.
The main problem is their inability to pay lavish remunerative packages and they
have tough competition with the bigger players.
The remote work environment is encouraging start-ups to source talent across
the globe. So they need not choose from a restricted environment. A remote
work environment minimizes the operational cost and overhead expenses to
run a huge office. The saved finances can be used to source the perfect
candidate and build the right team. However, they even face a lot of challenges
in building those teams.

How To Build a Functional and
Successful Start-up With a Remote
Team?

#1 Hiring the Right Staff is the Key.

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When you consider work from home, flexibility, and other benefits of the work
from home situation, many takers would join the remote team. However,
everyone you hire might not fit into your shoes. You need to have a strategic and
well-thought hiring plan. You also need to seek the qualitative as well as the
behavioural aspects of the individual before offering them a job. You need to
choose wisely when you are forming your team.

Key Features to Hire a Perfect Candidate

1. You need to find a self-motivated and passionate individual with whom
you can have real-time feedback from time to time, and mentor him/her.
It is very necessary to provide necessary guidance and direction to keep
them motivated. But, in a work-from-home situation, you cannot
constantly keep pushing an employee.

2. Hire the individuals that you can trust and depend upon. In a start-up
environment, you have very little time and space for worrying about your
teammates and their work. Always hire individuals whom you can trust for
work in remote teams.

3. You need the people to understand their work culture and work ethics.
You must understand that every individual is not meant to cope up with
the social environment and support system.

#2 Create Set Procedures for Quality,
Execution, and Accountability

By formulating set procedures for quality, execution, and accountability, you can
minimize the confusion within the remote team and ensure seamless
functioning. The quality standards need to be laid down before even starting a
project. It is very necessary to make certain checklists for every task so that they
know the expectations and their accomplishments. You can even go for the
time-tracking tools to monitor their employees.

Each member needs to know the workflow process of the company, whom to
report, and what hierarchy is being followed. You need to tell how the work
needs to be delegated to all the parties involved. There should be proper
guidelines about the reporting and the documentation- the content, and its
frequency.

#3 Leverage the Tools for Better
Collaboration

There is a wide range of tools, open-source as well as paid, available in the
market to nurture collaboration amongst the remote team. Leverage the
efficient tools for functioning and collaborations. Take the hassle-free tools that
are easy to use as well.

#4 Communication and Transparency
are the Keys

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Unlike a normal office environment, work from home has a different
environment. Hence open, and effective communication is required to build
trustworthy teams. These communication channels should empower employees
to work quickly and seamlessly.

#5 Include Social Tools

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It is very important for your team to use various social tools since they will help
in building a strong social bond despite the physical distance present.

#6 Develop a Mechanism for Instant
Feedback

Provide instant real-time feedback to remote employees. They need to be
actively engaged and motivated. Positive feedback must be given constantly
along with the problematic areas. You should also be open to feedback from
your employees. you need to create certain platforms where the employees can
proactively give their suggestions.

#7 Meet the People You Work With

The remote team must be met in person from time to time. It helps in building
the trust of the employees.

You must follow these guidelines to build a successful, and completely functional
remote team for your start-up, effectiveness, and productivity.

It is rightly said, “A company’s employees are its greatest asset and your people
are your product”.