QUES- You are a HR Manager of XYZ Company.

Your company has adapted work from

home policy during COvid-19 pandemic. Discuss your Motivational strategies to motivate
your employees in the same period.

The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted organizations and caused human resources managers
to think differently about their role as they adjust to social distancing practices and a new work
environment that they may never have imagined.

To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, companies have switched to a remote work model at
a rate and scale they've never experienced. As face-to-face collaboration is replaced with e-
mail and videoconferencing, HR managers have to do difficult work under difficult
circumstances.

How to Keep Your Team Motivated, Remotely

1) Foster a Sense of belonging in employees during this epidemic.

To keep employees motivated and connected, start by building a virtual office for your
employees. Investing in technological tools like Virtual Conferencing Software and
Collaboration Tools, the company should build an online community for employees to facilitate
professional and personal conversations among colleagues. It will enable employees to feel a
sense of belonging, being connected, and motivate them to be more productive.

2) Improve the overall communication with your teams to encourage conversation

and collaboration.

Encourage the use of platforms for instant messaging like Hangout, Slack to allow quick and
informal conversations between employees. Establishing regular check-ins and facilitating
communication will keep your workforce connected and clear about what’s happening.

Informal Communication among colleagues can help keep them connected as a team.

3) Build a visual scoreboard to promote team collaboration and share their

progress.

A Visual Scoreboard can also spell out the priorities and the Key Performance Indicators
(KPIs) for each team. One can use analytics and graphics to convey the weekly or monthly
progress or make use of modern applications for HR and managers and teams to assign tasks
and collaborate.

Conducting weekly and monthly meetings to discuss the scoreboard and the key objectives
will keep employees connected, engaged, and motivated to work towards their assigned tasks.
4) Recognize employee efforts and achievements

Recognition of the efforts and achievements of employees should be an essential element for
the overall success of your business. Recognition is one of the most effective methods to make
employees feel engaged. When employees are recognized for their work, they feel a sense of
accomplishment that makes them feel engaged and motivates them to do their best.

Working from home in a sense make employees feel isolated and less connected. It becomes
therefore imperative to make every effort to keep them engaged to maintain their productivity.
Recognizing their efforts and achievements can boost their confidence and motivation to work.

5) Adopt a culture of continuous feedback for your employees to work on during their
work from home.

Fostering a culture of open and honest feedback for your remote employees will motivate
them to be more involved and progressive in their approach. For a successful and motivating
feedback system, HR can organize a one-on-one session with their team and offer their
insights on the employee’s performance.

6) Trust your team to work to their full capacity to accomplish their goals even when
working from home.
As HR and managers, you can only motivate and guide your employees in the right direction. After
that, you have to place your trust in your employees to get the work done.
Avoid pinging or calling your employees multiple times in a day and wait for them to revert
in time.

Thanku