Telecommuting: how to achieve your business goals in the middle of the third wave?

Due to the arrival of third wave of coronavirus in Peru in 2022, thousands of people have been infected and this has forced companies to implement teleworking or home office again when they were already working in the office as before the pandemic.

But does the physical place where we work really matter to achieve the objectives of a company? What the pandemic has shown is that each of our houses can be adapted as a place where things are done, ordered (or objectives or goals are received) and where countless things can be worked on.

In this context, Max Coloma, Accountant from the University of Piura (Udep), with more than 20 years of experience in the world of business management, recalls that the definition of management speaks of achieving goals and finding ways to achieve them.

For this reason, the expert offers five recommendations to achieve the objectives at work regardless of the place where the work is being carried out:

– Sharing an inspiring purpose makes management easier: workers need to understand why and for what they do their work. Connecting them with the organizational purpose facilitates the understanding of the defined objectives.

– Leadership is about achieving goals through a team: the workspace can constantly change and what has recently been experienced in the pandemic only confirms this. It is up to the leaders who have the responsibility to guide work teams to always surround themselves with the best possible people, define challenging objectives and provide the resources to achieve them.

– Establish methods to achieve the objectives: Always assuming that ethics is non-negotiable, we can work on PMO methods, agile, lean start up initiatives, routine management or any empirical method that each one can create. There are no limits to this and it depends on the type of problem to be solved.

– Take advantage of face-to-face meetings: Replacing them with meetings on the agenda of a virtual platform takes away the charm of a spontaneous meeting that breaks routine and energizes you to continue. It is the great challenge to solve for those who do telework and we must put our creative energy and human sensitivity into it.

– Teleworking is one more option, let’s respect individualities: each person has a unique personal and family reality. Due to this reality, it can no longer be a unilateral decision of companies (impose face-to-face attendance) and confronts them with the challenge of building mechanisms to promote collaboration and agility at work without losing human connections.