For many of us, remote collaboration is simply how business is done today. However, many teams are still having trouble establishing a streamlined virtual workflow that enables them to continue working as productively as they did before becoming remote.
The most effective remote teams collaborate in a way that consciously helps persons working remotely. In addition to enhancing their capacity to work together, their collaboration brings forth everyone on the team's greatest ideas. The same techniques also strengthen collaboration and encourage the development of ideas among colleagues in a common setting, such as an office.
Benefits of remote collaboration 
- Everyone’s voice and every idea can be heard > team cohesion and alignment, productivity
- Everything is documented, recorded
- Async collaboration is convenient and efficient for pre- and after-meetings
- Async tools streamline collaboration (such as Slack, Miro, Mural, whiteboards, Notion, docs, etc.)
- Effective sync collaboration with different tools such as docs, presentations, whiteboards, and project management tools (Teams/Zoom, Miro, Slack, Mural, whiteboards, etc.)
- Ease of access to documents
- Reporting is easier than ever
- Track changes with ease
- Deep work and focus get better when employees can focus on the most important things – working with the case and each other
- Learning from each other because everything is visible and documented
- More efficient workflows
- Tasks can be actioned immediately
- Remove time pressure
- Brainstorm when people are the sharpest
- Develop ideas with each other
- Edit and present the work
- Reflect on others’ thoughts and take inspiration
- Using different communication styles to build better results
A couple of articles on how to succeed in remote collaboration
Remote collaboration: benefits, examples of using Miro and Mural, article overview – https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kekkehyvamaki_remote-collaboration-activity-7013933400453451776-X6Iz
Boosting performance with virtual collaboration rules – https://remoteworkadvocate.com/2022/09/boosting-performance-with-virtual-collaboration-rules/
Struggling with Remote Collaboration? Here’s How to Fix It – https://paperform.co/blog/remote-collaboration/
How to Collaborate Productively When Your Team is Remote – https://weworkremotely.com/how-to-collaborate-productively-when-your-team-is-remote
Remote Collaboration: 6 Key Rules and Best Practices – https://everhour.com/blog/remote-collaboration/
How to Make Remote Collaboration Work for You – https://uk.pcmag.com/productivity/140753/how-to-make-remote-collaboration-work-for-you
Effective Ways of Improving Remote Team Collaboration – https://www.cloudways.com/blog/remote-team-collaboration/
How To Make Remote Team Collaboration More Successful – https://blog.vantagecircle.com/remote-team-collaboration/
The state of collaboration report: our top 5 findings – https://www.howspace.com/resources/state-of-collaboration-report-top-findings