Remote & Asynchronous Management

Async collaboration or communication is done with tools like slack, loom, email, mural, and  Miro.

Async Management is the next level of management and communication because it incorporates processes and automatic coordination of people. This ensures teams can work together, make decisions, and do their best work without having to rely on meetings or scattered communication. 

Benefits:

• Accountability & Ownership: Encourage ownership, show trust and hold everyone accountable for their work and decisions.
• Team clarity: Establish a clearly defined path to success, describing what, who, when, and how to get things done throughout every step of the process so success is never accidental.
• Reduce Waste & Scale: Grow your business, make informed decisions, get things done faster, with the same amount of people and spend less time managing admin work  – even if your team works remotely and from different timezones.
• Managers can support their global or remote teams without spending time coordinating work.
• Teams work efficiently and organizations can deliver work up to 25% faster.
• Deliver your best work: Ensure that teams have time to evaluate information, think through ideas, share knowledge, and take action in order to make well-informed decisions – always within a reasonable and fair timeframe.
• Provide remote and flexible positions and attract more talent.

Many organizations are using tools such as a loom, and Slack to work asynchronously to reduce meetings. However, they often find that people in the organization are not held accountable, and there is no tracking or visibility of how teams are sharing knowledge or progressing. Managers are left with extra work, having to check on work status, sending reminders, etc. Making the team feel disconnected and lost as a result.

In order to solve this problem, many organizations are partially returning to the office, but the root of the problem is not related to where people are physically located. Over the past 20 years, we have seen a change in the way we work. In today’s workplace, teams work collaboratively and managers don’t hold all the knowledge; instead, knowledge is shared, so the better teams share that collective knowledge, the more likely they are to find the right solution. Our clients are located around the world and our teams are distributed globally. But that’s not all! With the world and technology changing rapidly, delivering the best work at a rapid pace is essential for success; therefore, teams need to do more than just deliver the best work. Despite the changes in how we work, what we do today is very similar to 60 years ago. We still use whiteboards to share ideas, documents to get notes, and phone calls when we need help. Although we have changed physical office materials to digital ones, this does not help managers guide and support their teams who work across timezones, have specific deadlines, and need to share knowledge to reduce risks.

This is why we founded Nova.

Nova is a collaboration and productivity platform that leverages intelligent technology to help teams work together while coordinating the work for you – so teams can share their knowledge and get things done efficiently. Unlike other platforms  –  Nova helps organize and manage work by goals, people and deadlines and includes tools like whiteboards, tasks and documents to get things done in the same space.

It is likely you have sent an email reminder asking a few stakeholders to get back to you or share their feedback, and felt frustrated because you had no visibility into whether they read your email, if they were working on it, or if they remembered.

You probably sent a loom video sharing important information about a new product update, organizational changes, or even a new design to your team, but you don’t know if they watched, or if they understood what you shared.

Here are a few examples of why asynchronous work often doesn’t seem to work. In order to track progress and hold people accountable, managers add more meetings to their calendars.

As a company, we have studied organizations’ psychology, neuro-management and team structures in order to ensure our workspace encourages knowledge sharing and teamwork without manual supervision.

• With Nova, everyone is held accountable, there is transparency and clarity for everyone, and the process is fair for all participants.
• Managers and leaders can facilitate async work and guide their teams without having to be present.
• Using Nova, everyone within the organization and their stakeholders can see their schedules organized according to the tasks they need to accomplish, the knowledge they need to share, and the reviews they need to do. Due dates are used to organize work and collaboration.
• Work in an environment that values trust, transparency, and clarity. With Nova, teams can see what needs to be done and why, as well as how their participation and work will affect the solution. They can also see who is participating, and what decisions the team is making in real-time. By doing so, everyone is able to see when things need to be delivered and when decisions have to be made. The deadlines, rules, and processes apply to everyone.
• In Nova, accountability is visible, which means all team members and managers can see if someone has contributed or if they have completed tasks. Even in async environments, the ability to see people’s contributions and progress creates a social factor that encourages team members and stakeholders to work together async.
• Instead of sending emails or slack messages to remind people what they need to do, Nova automatically manages people, work, and deadlines.