Remote Team
topic on 5 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
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Neves: Remote team leaders must gather employees in person at least quarterly
“Like if you lead a remote team, it is so critical. You get together, in my opinion, At least on a quarterly basis, face to face for a couple of days or a day, because those collisions that happen when you're with one another are just so powerful that they're j…”
Akhtar: Remote companies should budget roughly $2,000 per person for annual retreats
“If you're especially a remote team, like get everyone away once a year, somewhere you can do it for about two K a person. But it's definitely worth the budget.”
Cowan-Brown: Remote teams require five times more process than in-person teams
“And I think it was Andreas Klinger who said that as a remote team, you've got roughly Five times more process that you're going to need than any other mechanism of working. So the moment you go remote, there's five times more process that's going to be needed.”
ActivTrak established an intentional company policy against building a remote team
“Yeah, we intentionally decided, decided not to build a remote team, so it's like rule and the policy.”
Knoop: In-person retreats build interpersonal empathy necessary for text-heavy remote teams
“Even though we're a hundred percent remote, there is still a lot of value for getting in person.
and we don't like discount that.
you get to build a lot of empathy.
You get to build relationship with folks and it allows you to kind of be, assume best intent …”
Remote team relationships must be built face-to-face before going virtual
“That's, I think that's a learning that we got from Skype, is that you can build human relationships face-to-face, and then you can maintain them over video calls. And when you're booting up a new team, you have to ensure that there is enough of that face-to-fa…”