Tools and Resources for Remote Managers
Use our tools + resources in Know Your Team to better onboard, support, and manage your remote team.


Build social connection in your remote team.
Periodically, we ask a fun, light-hearted questions called Social Questions and Icebreakers that helps everyone in your team get to know each other better. For example, one week, weâll ask, âWho was your favorite band 10 years ago?â or âHow do you like your eggs?â We give you 300+ questions to choose from, and the question is delivered via Slack or email. After folks respond, everyone can see each othersâ answers (and comment and react to it, too!â¤ď¸).
It might seem innocuous â but itâs a huge hit in a team, often sparking further conversation over lunch or in a Slack channel.
Learn more about our Social Questions and Icebreakers.
Get automatic status updates from your remote team.
Every day or week, we ask a âHeartbeat Check-inâ: A periodic question that aligns your team around the progress theyâre making. For example, weâll ask âWhat will you work on today?â or âWhatâs your #1 focus this week?â You could also ask, once a month, âWhat are you most proud of accomplishing last month?â to everyone on your team. Weâll deliver the question via Slack or email, and share the answers with everyone in a summary. Thatâs it. Dead simple.
Learn more about the Heartbeat Check-in.

Make your one-on-one meetings high leverage, while working remotely.
Make the most of the video chat 1-on-1 meetings with your direct reports. This is where our One-on-Ones Tool helps:Â You can schedule 1-on-1 meetings, write a shared agenda, keep track of takeaways, and use 100+ suggested one-on-one questions and agenda templates â all supported by best practices from 2,000+ people.
Learn more about the One-on-Ones Tool.
Read our 60+ pages free âGuide to Managing Remote Teams,â backed by research.
Our 60-page âGuide to Managing Remote Teamsâ is now free. Itâs based on a survey from 297 remote managers and employees, cited conversations from 1,000+ managers in our leadership community in Know Your Team, and distilled research on remote work from the past 10 years.Â

Watch our 60-minute online training for managing remote teams.
Our Workshop Live! session recording on âHow to Manage a Remote Team Wellâ is 100% free and open to the public, as well. During it, our CEO Claire Lew covers best practices on communication, collaboration, and performance management in remote teams, based on data collected over the past 6 years working with 15,000+ people.Â
âKYT is a tool that brings our remote-first company closer together: it gives us greater visibility, it helps us improve our policies, and it strengthens our culture.â
Ready to give Know Your Team a shot?
Remote managers all over the world use Know Your Team to manager their teams every single week. See all the features in Know Your Team here, or learn more about the methodology behind each feature here.