deepstash
Beta
How to bring remote teams together: 5 ways to build authentic connections
Take Advantage Of Special Events
- Set a budget for presents and a date for your ‘gift-opening party’
- An email thread goes out to everyone except the receiver of the gift
- Everyone replies about what they know about this person and then proposes gift ideas.
- Agree on a gift (which the company will purchase)
- Get together over video chat on the day of the ‘party’ to open gifts and talk about them.
131 SAVES
SIMILAR ARTICLES & IDEAS:
5
Key Ideas
Building Rapport Remotely
To better build rapport and counter isolation do the following:
- smile, tilt your chin lower so you're not looking down on them, and slow down your speech during your vid...
Relying On Text The Right Way
Voice and video calls can help you feel more in touch with your team and avoid the issues of asynchronous communication like time lags or misunderstandings.
However, you'll likely spend a lot of your day communicating via text as it’s a good way to interact without interrupting their work. So you need to be able to get your point across clearly and simply, show empathy and understanding, and be efficient to avoid wasted time.
Staying Up To Date
Remote workers can feel overwhelmed by the amount of text they have to process. So finding ways to keep on top of what's going on is imperative for communicating efficiently with others.
Create archive lists and CC irrelevant emails to them, so you can save and share them without flooding non-involved people.
8
Key Ideas
Team communication
- Open and effective team communication keeps projects moving, co-workers happy, and ideas flowing.
- Bad team communication kills company culture, leads employees...
Effects of poor communication
- Instead of looking for solutions, we waste time checking communication tools.
- We don't talk about our expectations.
- Communication bleeds into our out-of-work time, instead of leaving it at work.
Open communication
It doesn’t mean just telling people to share their thoughts, but actually doing it yourself and setting clear rules and guidelines about how to share.
It isn’t just about how you share information but also what gets shared.
3
Key Ideas
Assembling the Team
... that's capable of executing in a remote setup:
- Hire doers: they will get stuff done even if they are working from a secluded island.
- Hire people you can trust....
Software/Tools
In a remote team, you'll need the right tools to make sure everyone stays on the same page and can continue to execute without a physical person standing next to them.
You likely will need a tool in certain categories like group chat and video conferencing to make remote successful.
Processes
Good processes let you get work done in the absence of all else. They provide structure and direction for getting things done.
A few examples from Zapier:
- Weekly Hangouts;
- Weekly One-on-Ones;
- Bring the team together 2 times/year somewhere cool;
- Automate anything that can be automated.