As leader of a small business, ensure you stay connected with your employees and try and create some remote fun where possible. To be as productive as possible, create a workspace that is conducive and limits interruptions and interference. Maintain regular breaks and start by creating a morning routine. Discuss the situation with people in your space and create ground rules. These tips and tools will also be useful to assist your kids, who may have to get used to online, distance learning whilst schools are closed.
The key tools to consider are:
1. Devices & Connectivity
Kind of goes without saying, but without quality devices and connectivity, the experience may become very frustrating and not lead to any productive outputs.
2. Video Conferencing
The most effective tool to continue to have staff, client and supplier meetings is video conferencing. Depending on the tool, you will schedule the call via your calendar, insert the video conferencing link and invite the respective participants. During the call you could present various forms of media such as presentations, spreadsheets, documents, video’s photo’s etc. Some of the most recent tools also have recording capability, so anyone who could not attend, will be able to view and comment on the meeting later.
Some of the tools to consider on the market are:
- RingCentral Meetings
- Intermedia AnyMeeting
- ZOHO
- Clickmeeting
- Microsoft Teams
- Zoom
- Google Hangouts
- Slack
- Discord
- WhatsApp (Download the Desktop option as well)
- Microsoft Teams
- Dropbox Business
- Google Drive
- Microsoft OneDrive
- Adobe Scan
- Scanbot
- Microsoft Office Lens