How to keep your team motivated during the pandemic

As businesses grapple with limited budgets due to the ongoing pandemic and economic downturn, marketing teams are usually the first ones to feel the consequences. It is in difficult times like these that great team leaders rely on emotional intelligence to inspire and support their people.

Employees around the world are grappling with worries about the health and safety of their loved ones, economic uncertainty, remote work combined with childcare (or lack thereof), and many other things that might not have even crossed our minds yet. So how do we support our teams in the most effective manner?

Here’s some advice on how to keep your team’s spirits and motivation high:

1. Organize virtual coffees and happy hours.

If you think about it, before we began working virtually, it was not all work and no play. As a team, we bonded over coffees, lunches, office birthday parties and so much more. We cheered, laughed and cried together, and we got our work done. However, that all disappeared when we moved our offices to cyberspace.