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Developing Your Culture with Work-From-Home Teams

About this episode:

For many organizations, hybrid and work-from-home are here to stay, but how can leaders build a strong culture, and ensure that team members are accountable when they're not in the office?

Part of this is developing new standards for communication, collaboration, and engagement. Most of it is sharing with managers new tools and techniques to do their job: management.

Listen in to learn more, and pick up some practical tips that can help.

Part 1

Part 2

Topics Discussed (with timestamps)

• How can leaders of work-from-home and hybrid teams create the culture they aspire to? (01:00)

• Picking up bad habits: Rolemodeling at work (21:01)

• Do you think there's a type of person who is like best suited for a work-from-home role or a work-from-home team? (26:06)

• How has the standardization of recording work meetings impacted team relationships? (29:09)

• How can work-from-home team members create time to develop their relationships with one another and create time for social touchpoints? (02:02)

• For team members to bond and develop trusting relationships, they need to spend time together: Is the time investment needed for virtual team members to socialize taken from company time (i.e. paid time) or personal time? (03:18)

• What perks should companies offer their work-from-home team members?(08:42)

• In-office exchanges: The unscheduled meeting, the serendipitous exchange, observing your colleagues: These days, in-office teams are often sitting at their desk all day – even taking lunch at their desk - without interacting with colleagues: How much interaction is there really? (14:09)

• Managing by minute vs managing by task: You have expressed disdain for employees who moonlight at a second job. If employees can "do their job" quickly, must they ask to be "rewarded" with more work from their employer?Is it inherently wrong for them to be efficient so they can take on a side hustle?(17:16)

• Role modeling for your employees: If leaders don't want their employees moonlighting at a second job, how is it that we see leaders holding senior positions at multiple organizations? (23:42)

• What perspective do leaders of work-from-home and geographically spread out teams need to make? (26:23)

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