REMOTE MANAGEMENT OF A SERVICES BUSINESS?
I am under LOI for a services business (>$4m revenue) and was wondering if folks here have experience with remote management of such teams?
I know many tech businesses and marketing agencies are run fully remote. Staff in older economy businesses like landscaping, facilities management, machine shops etc are unlikely to be familiar with being managed remotely. Perhaps this is also a question about whether I am underestimating the difficulty of changing the culture in the team.
Thanks much for any thoughts!
1) SLA Agreement for team members.
2) Consistent tools for communication, email and Zoom is not enough.
3) Annual (or even monthly) get-togethers. This is huge for morale.
4) An expense policy that takes the home office expenses into account.
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