Remote management: what HR solution to support managers?

Generalized teleworking, the economic crisis and the uncertainties it brings have (re) put remote management at the heart of business challenges. How to manage employees, 61% of whom say they are depressed, anxious or angry [1]? How to support these 90% of employees for whom permanent teleworking is a total discovery [2]?

These changes have a lasting impact on the role of managers, who sometimes find themselves helpless in the face of a double injunction. On the one hand, ask teams to work hard to achieve company goals. On the other hand, remain attentive to the physical and psychological well-being of their employees.

As professional coaches, at Talentis, we find ourselves more and more frequently confronted with managers in need of support, caught in the heat of these contradictions. At the risk of forgetting themselves... In this article, discover a solution that you, as HR, can quickly put in place to support your managers in their complicated daily lives.

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Remote management: impact of the new lockdown on the role of managers

Remote work management

In accordance with government guidelines, 100% of businesses that are able to do so must opt for teleworking. If in recent years it has been spreading more and more within companies on an occasional basis, managing teams permanently from home is another challenge:

• Maintain The link with dispersed teams
• Conduct feedback interviews made more complicated by distance
• Establishing the conditions for trust to keep teams committed over the long term
• Remain attentive to needs of its teams and respond to them when possible...

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To read on this subject:

4 keys to managing remote work.

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Managing your own stress and energy

Between the days of teleworking, which make the work/personal life border more porous, and the uncertain economic situation, managers' nerves and bodies are put to the test.If 44% of employees declared themselves in a state of psychological distress last May [3], what about managers? The latter, caught in the “stranglehold” between pressure from the company and requests for support from employees, absorb a double dose of stress.How, therefore, can they find time to:

• Take a step back from a difficult daily life
• Listen to their emotions and their fatigue so as not to fall into burnout
• Remain attentive to the stress level of their own teams

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Business Expectations

For a majority of organizations, the health crisis means major economic losses. Who says drop in turnover says reduction in resources, both human and material.Complicated period for managers who find themselves having to:

• Making tough decisions (layoffs, losses of service providers, etc...)
• Develop ingenuity and creativity To do more with less
• Staying the course despite uncertainty making deploying long-term strategies nearly impossible

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Taking a step back through professional coaching: an essential step for successful remote management

Managers want to breathe in a disrupted context

In the current whirlwind, one of the biggest challenges for managers is To find time to pause. For the latter, the current period can be likened to a marathon where, in order to last, they must incorporate spaces for reflection, to take a step back and to take a distance. The objective, to allow them to refocus on themselves and their priorities in order to rechallenge their practice, working on new postures to improve performance and well-being at work.

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Flash Coaching: 30-minute sessions to quickly solve concrete problems

Coming from the United States, this approach to professional coaching very pragmatic is growing more and more in France. It makes it possible to address, in several short sessions, concrete topics on the theme of remote management:

• How to help an employee in psychological distress due to lockdown?
• How to prepare for a high-stakes remote meeting?
• What are the “tips & tools” to maintain a high level of energy over time...

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Talentis' professional coaches are Experienced and experienced in this exercise that is quite different from the more transformational “classic” individual coaching.

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Talentis innovates and offers HR the very first Coaching Hotline for managers with Click & Coach

We have heard this need for support from your managers to be accompanied on this issue of remote management. We want to help them, via short sessions, to solve these concrete problems in order to make rapid progress. For more than 3 years, we have been supporting the talents of large groups remotely via our Click & Coach platform. It allows each talent to choose their coach, their coaching theme, their coaching language (among 18) and the date and time of their sessions.As part of this Coaching hotline for managers, the operation is very simple:

• You buy a package of hours on Click & Coach (50 hours minimum) that you distribute to your managers as needed
• Each manager chooses his coach and defines his coaching goals
• He schedules his sessions and gets his videoconference link to follow his sessions.
• Thanks to reporting, you monitor the consumption of hours and the achievement of objectives

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The click and coach platform

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[1] Ipsos 2020 [2] Ipsos 2020

‍OpinionWay — Human Footprint 2020[

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The current period is crucial for your business, your talents, your leaders. It is in these complicated situations where the term Human Resources Management makes perfect sense: how do you really listen to the needs of your managers? What effective response can we provide in the long term? At Talentis we are available to present to you the methods of setting up this Coaching Hotline for Managers. Do not hesitate to contact us!