Building Trust Remotely

Trust is what happens BETWEEN the MEETINGS

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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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[travellingslim]

As an introvert, being remote has been so beneficial to my productivity and mental health. I dreaded those before-and-after meeting conversations, random people interrupting me with small talk, and even the many useless meetings in the first place. Now I can just hop in a meeting instantly, put myself on mute until I have something to say, and after the meeting I can go right back to work. Conversations with my immediate coworkers have changed to 100% productivity with none of the fluff. Of course I still care about them and if they're having troubles outside of work or want to discuss something non-work-related, I am all ears, but removing the meaningless small-talk and time-waste ("hey do you want to get some coffee and waste an hour of work?") has been super helpful to me.

For me, remote trust is when you deliver on your work and people know they can count on you doing a good job wherever you may be. We still have weekly tagups with our immediate team and usually talk about life stuff rather than work. It's nice to have that as a 30 minute slot per week rather than sprinkled throughout every day usually interrupting focus.

[NathalieLazo]

Mastering the art of listening builds any trust with anybody virtually or in person 👍🏼

[maxigol]

It's great and I wholeheartedly am on board. The issue is that many people (not just bosses, but employees themselves) absolutely do not want to interact with each other and welcome the remote working. Bosses see their workers as drones and employees just want a paycheck. What they both don't understand is that seeing each other as human beings promotes relationships which promotes a better state of mind which promotes productivity.

Yes, it's a lot of work, but the results are worth it.

[GrowthMindsetChannel]

“If no one ever broke the rules, then we’d never advance.” ~ Simon Sinek 💪🏻🚀

[GetBusyLiving]

I have a crush on Simon both physically and intellectually.

[SoloMotivation]

It's never too late to be what you might've been, if you can dream it, you can do it so trust yourself that you can do it and get it.
I hope my message save some souls!
Thanks for reading 💕💕💕💕💕

[Fishman]

Trust is just about treat each other as a human. In other words, is about applying the golden rule in every situation we could deal with.
You always hit the bull's eyes, Simon.

[theTeslaFalcon]

In every office I was in, the general attitude was directly expressed by one co-worker who came up & asked, "How's it going?"

Wife & I had just had another major blowup as we sank into lowest point of our 5 yr marriage. We were seriously contemplating divorce. (We celebrate 27 years together next month.) When he asked, I opened up.

After ~5 minutes, he put up his hand & said, "Did I that come out sounding sincere? I have a bad habit of that. Let's try this again. How's it going?"

I coldly said, "Fine, how are you?"

He then told me what wanted from me.

[rogerbruce]

This is good!! I have 20 people I help motivate, lead and remove road blocks remotely. Need more on the topic Leadership in remote environments.

[shawn]

I have very recently become a kitchen manager in a small pub, millenials, leaders eat last... There has been at least a couple times where I have done something as a leader. Ironically you had a video that day about exactly what I did. I'm listening, thank you!

[mburton]

COVID made me lose trust in the company I was with. It became about numbers and not the people. The justification was the numbers made it possible to take care of the people, but the people started to feel like they didn't matter despite raises and bonuses. 12 years, 2 promotions, and 2 transfers later... I gave my two week notice and have felt relief since leaving.

[magicmiguel]

Yes ! I think the same working together is a good to build trust!

[ijblessjourney]

I’ve practiced this for a long time and it’s amazing the relationship you build through time.

[kristydrew]

I think that it is very important to really be open minded and I think that you're right Kelly, sometimes we think we are, but not that isn't always the case. Doing a little self examination every once in awhile is always a good thing!

[ice-mpdx]

My remote work is 1000 percent productivity and quality. Zero interactions with coworkers.

[samianraheem]

You're amazing. I can't tell you how much I love listening your *Thank you Thursdays*.... I sometimes even cry after listening those...💐

[izawaniek]

These observations and tips are so very helpful and worth implementation. Thank you.

[liamhowgate]

I find WFH and being remote from my colleagues, on the whole, terrible. Not because I'm a massive extrovert and I necessary need their company, but because I find communication through Email, Message, WhatsApp, Insert social media of choice etc so banal and soulless. The artificial and de-personal nature of those forms of communication just don't lend themselves to building connection and trust between humans. This is all subjective of course, but I personally feel so much more stimulated and motivated when meeting colleagues face-to-face regularly in an office environment
Not that embracing technology, and using that to foster relationships (personal or professional) is bad or wrong in any way

[kevinhayes]

what are some good example "huddle questions" that you can share?

[godojoshi]

I'm really curios how the IT will look like after 10-15 years of such a global remote work approach. Making a software for almost 20 years, I see that the biggest issue is communication. The larger company is the worse communication issues emerge. Communication between business and IT, between different departments in IT, different teams, even between team members. And it wasn't so remote as now. Additionally, I cannot see how agile methods like Scrum can work fully in remote approach. For me, being agile is communication, flexibility, cooperation and Trust. And it's really hard to see a human being when you talk to your screen ;) It's like talking and working with avatars, not real humans. So, don't be surprise that one day you will loose your job being replaced with AI bot and nobody will complain. For the others, there won't be any difference between real You and a bot. You both are remote.