Remote workers who rarely meet with their teammates face to face tend to focus on tasks and ignore the team. A culture is vital to foster engagement and sustain performance over the long term.

Establish trust. Affective trust (based on feeling) is tricky to build virtually...

• Teams that feel empowered to share their perspectives with each other, especially when their opinions differ from the rest of the group.
• These teams are more likely to take initiative and consider the full picture of each situation. This in turn enables the team to...

When managers don't provide clear direction, employees will fill in the details with assumptions. However, what managers require may differ greatly from what the employees think their managers expect.

To avoid confusion, write down straightforward objectives and guidelines that are...