To help Charlotte-area entrepreneurs and innovators impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the team here at Charlotte Inno has created a guide with help from the Charlotte Venture for America fellows. We will continually update this guide as more information becomes available. If you have additional resources to share, please let us know.
The following are resources for working remotely and managing remote teams.
Last updated April 11th, 2020.
Working Remotely
- Generally helpful tips on how to structure your day to be productive while maintaining sanity.
- General tips for being productive, and having a structure.
- More lifestyle related tips to working from home such as coffee and seating.
- General tips for being productive, and keeping team morale/communication at a high level.
- General tips to stay in contact with people and keep personal morale high.
- Slightly in-depth review on how to be focused and sane when working from home.
How Virtual Teams Communicate Effectively
- Tips for communicating effectively
Hubstaff – a time tracking solution with productivity monitoring, online timesheets, invoicing, and more
Managing Remote Teams
Virtual Conferencing Tools
Tech Tips
- Ways to communicate with customers if you don’t have a method already
A Comprehensive Guide to Collaboration Tools With Teams Working From Home
- Introduction to communications/conferencing/planning tools for managing teams
A Complete Guide to Using Slack With a Remote Team
- General tips for using Slack effectively
7 Tips for Using Zoom Remote Conferencing With Remote Teams
- Tips on using Zoom beyond the basic features
These 5 Tech Companies Are Providing Free Remote Working Tools During the Coronavirus Outbreak
- Intro level (free) versions of software for communicating with teams
Reduced-Cost Tools for Remote Work
- List of reduced cost tools for remote work
8 Ways to Manage Your Team While Social Distancing
- More tips for helping teams work effectively remotely
Top Collaboration Tools to Help manage Your Remote Team
- Very thorough list of collaboration tools
Hiring Tips
- More people may be open to new roles as they state. Tips to take advantage of this as well as interviewing remotely.
Management Tips
- General tips for encouraging and maintaining communication with your team
Coronavirus Cash Flow Ideas: The Long Term Advantages of Remote Work
- Consider how to take advantage of remote work for reducing costs and more
How to Find Success When Your Team is Off-Site But Still in the Game
- Tips on managing teams from team managers that have run remote teams
How to Meet With Your Team In Times of Crisis
- Tips on creating a new communication architecture for remote working, such as new technologies and trainings, and different types of meetings you should be conducting
LP2X Business Survival Tips: The New Normal for Communications
- Tips for taking advantage of communications/tech platforms
https://hbr.org/2020/03/virtual-offsites-that-work?ab=hero-subleft-2
- How to conduct a virtual offsite
Cybersecurity Tools
- 30 day cybersecurity and remote management software trial
- Trend Micro telework security
