How Do You Build Trust with Remote Teams?
Simon Sinek, founder of The Optimism Company, gives profound insights on nurturing trust and fostering collaboration within remote teams. He highlights the importance of what happens between meetings and how remote work can sometimes resemble long-distance relationships.
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In a virtual environment, there is a need to create intentional opportunities for informal interactions and build trust. Learn how to prevent siloing and maintain a culture of collaboration, especially in fast-growing organizations. Simon also shares practical strategies, such as organizing hackathons and rewarding collaborative behavior, to ensure the success of blended remote and hybrid teams.
Video from ServiceNow, January 2024, in conversation with Vanessa Smith
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Simon is an unshakable optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together.
Described as “a visionary thinker with a rare intellect,” Simon has devoted his professional life to help advance a vision of the world that does not yet exist; a world in which the vast majority of people wake up every single morning inspired, feel safe wherever they are and end the day fulfilled by the work that they do.
Simon is the author of multiple best-selling books including Start With Why, Leaders Eat Last, Together is Better, and The Infinite Game.
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Being intentional with remote workforce is paramount to building trust. Catching team members doing good will get you much farther with building trust than only communicating when their is a problem.
Agreed. The challenge is that the corporate world is so focused on numbers that it blinds people to the the need for collaboration. Remote collaboration is hard work and most of are still learning. It also comes with the irony of a company saying that we must collaborate more to drive success, yet communication is only focused on bottom line and growth. I'm not naive. A business needs to make money. Collaboration is key and it doesn't have to be at the expense of "meetings your numbers".
Superrrb Awesome Fantastic video
Simon thankyou !
Simon, thank you. I’ve been trying to help my new company understand this. The entire company is remote, a huge departure from my previous company.
We don't remember to recognize and appreciate the efforts and contributions of team members regularly.
What the meaning of trust in context of the team? And why do we so crave to having it. In relationships, sometimes too much or too loose make them break away such as friend or couple. And I’m curious how much we need for colleague.
Fantastic 🎉
Simon la vie est très courte. Il faut toujours savoir le temps ne nous appartient pas . Réalise tes projets rapidement
I travel full time so i work 100% with remote workers from the Philippines from Manpower Genius and sometimes Upwork too. Trust was an issue in the beginning but touch wood so far ive never had an issue and i have 4 filipinos working remotely for me for less than the price of 1 staff in the US or UK so its been a huge pay off, they also work harder and have perfect english so i would say im getting 5-6 more productivity for the price of 1 single employee if i hired locally.
Simon says what companies want to hear. After all his customers are companies. Trust is about company culture. Being remote or office irrelevant.
1:52 making remote employees meet with other employees is doing the opposite of building trust. Those employees will be leaving your company soon unless you're just paying them a ridiculous amount. You have phenomenal takes on the majority of your content, this is not one of them, unless I'm somehow misunderstanding.
Sounds expensive to me. But if my Comp paid for it, I'd go every now and then.
@magnoid depends on if you really like your job and how far you live. For example, my company came out and said they wanted me to come to a different state for a couple weeks at a time each year, and I immediately started looking for a new job.
You really didn’t provide much real information
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