This was a webinar focused on building great remote team culture and cohesion

2. Agenda
True team culture
Building trust with your boss
Being left out of meetings and decisions as a remote employee
Building strong work relationships
Building company culture when your team is remote
Tools and tactics for creating team cohesion

3. Darrin Intro

4. 15 years of corporate experience (Arthur Andersen, Munich Re)
Author of Corporate Bravery
Cofounder and CEO of Cloverleaf.me - team coaching platform
Darrin

5. Jevin Intro

6. Jevin
Consulting software engineer
10 Years remote
Hired and managed over 50 people from most continents
Recently was CTO of a hybrid AI team managing 13 engineers remotely
I help companies transition culture to remote-first so they can hire and retain
the best from around the world

7. POLL: ALREADY WORKING REMOTELY?

8. What is true team culture?
ARTIFACTS &
PRACTICES
VALUES
UNDERLYING
ASSUMPTIONS
Verbal - stories, jargon, jokes
Physical - space layout, dress code, etc
Virtual - emojis & gifs
Norms
Policies
Standards
Habits of perception
Thought & feelings
VISIBILITY &
AWARENESS
HIGH
LOW
IMPACT ON
ORG CHANGE
LOW
HIGH

9. CHALLENGE AND SOLUTIONS: BUILDING TRUST
WITH YOUR MANAGER

10. Put yourself in their shoes:

11. They are asking themselves about you:
What are they doing today?
Will they make me look good?
Are they playing video games at home?
Are they less productive at home than at work?
*The answers might not be obvious to them

12. MANAGING UP

13. Figure out the blind spots for developing trust
Have a call with them saying you want to do a better job
helping them manage you.
Great questions to subtlety extract their lack of trust/visibility
so you can do something about it.
Taken from Getlighthouse blog

14. What information do you feel like you’re missing that you need to
know to do your job better?

15. At what level is a problem important enough I should raise it with you?
What is the best way to do so?

16. How would you like me to present things to you
I would like your coaching on?

17. Bonus
What kind of responsiveness do you expect?

18. Work with them to come up with a process to solve these issues:
Project management tool?
Daily email reports?
Check-ins and check-outs?
Weekly one on ones for prioritizations and reviews?
Stand up meetings?
Other stuff?

19. CHALLENGE AND SOLUTIONS: BEING LEFT OUT AT
MEETINGS AND DECISIONS

20. POLL: DO YOU FEEL YOU ARE MISSING OUT OF A
MEANINGFUL AMOUNT OF MEETINGS AND
DECISIONS BECAUSE YOU ARE REMOTE?

21. Usually not malicious, just being forgotten.
Out of sight, out of mind.

22. If everyone is remote or everyone is in the office, it’s easy
Hardest is with a hybrid team.

23. Scheduled meetings aren’t usually the issue. It’s the...

25. This is how it goes:
Hey Bill! How’s it going with that XYZ project you were working on
Pretty good! I meant to ask you about ABC. What do you think about using
Thing F?
Oh! That’s a pretty good idea, have a few minutes? We can chat about it

26. Maybe you feel like you would have been a key person in this conversation.
That’s hard.
What can you do about it?

27. Set the trend to reduce meetings by doing things
asynchronously
Demo Videos
Initiate discussions
More comments in your project management tool
Over Communicate

28. Set the trend to loop others into conversations.

29. Get in person regularly.

30. Do public recognition of others.

33. CHALLENGE AND SOLUTIONS: BUILDING STRONG
WORK RELATIONSHIPS

34. POLL: DO YOU FEEL YOUR WORK RELATIONSHIPS
COULD BE BETTER IF YOU WORKED IN AN OFFICE?

35. Building strong work relationships
Rely on technology
Miss important body language and non-linguistic cues
Typically only communicate when there is a reason to
Miss opportunities to build bonds

36. Social Meeting time with coworkers
“Those who [have a best friend at work] are seven times as likely to
be engaged in their jobs, are better at engaging customers, produce
higher quality work, have higher well-being, and are less likely to get
injured on the job.”
-Gallup Study

37. Get in person facetime.

40. (CEO’S LOVE IT!)

42. Deeper understanding of your team through Cloverleaf

43. Building Culture when your team is Remote
ARTIFACTS &
PRACTICES
VALUES
UNDERLYING
ASSUMPTIONS
Verbal - stories, jargon, jokes
Physical - space layout, dress code, etc
Virtual - emojis & gifs
Norms
Policies
Standards
Habits of perception
Thought & feelings
VISIBILITY &
AWARENESS
HIGH
LOW
IMPACT ON
ORG CHANGE
LOW
HIGH

44. Tools & Tactics for creating team cohesion
Clear understanding of goals
Growth expectations
Individual strengths

45. Interested in trying Cloverleaf out for your team?
50% off a team of up to 15 people (or talk to us about enterprise options)
Go to: clovereaf.me/teams
Use code: AWESOMEREMOTE through the end of the year

46. Think you’re a good remote manager?
Take the 3 minute quiz. See how you compare and how you can do better:
BuildingRemoteTeams.com/Quiz

47. Thank You!
cloverleaf.me
@cloverleafme
hello@cloverleaf.me
buildingremoteteams.com
@jevy
jevin@quickjack.ca