11th June 2020
5 ways to build a thriving remote work culture
With Covid-19 forcing many businesses to move to remote working quickly, many employees are worried about feeling isolated, having issues with communication and not being able to do collaborative work successfully.Acceleration Partners is a business marketing company with 177 employees and has been working remotely for 13 years. They believe their award-winning culture has been enhanced by remote working, not hindered.
Their CEO Robert Glazer shares his 5 top tips for how to build a thriving remote culture.
From the Article:
It can be normal, especially in larger companies, for employees to feel disconnected from senior leadership. Under the wrong conditions, this can be especially true in remote organizations, where an employee may go their entire tenure without having a one-on-one conversation with an executive.
Leaders of remote organizations must proactively address this problem. We’ve made top-down transparency a foundational part of our culture. This includes having biweekly all company briefings where our senior leadership team reports our company financials, progressing sales deals and operational initiatives to the entire company in real time.
When a company’s leadership is transparent — and invites regular questions and feedback — it creates an environment of trust for employees. In a remote environment, it’s vital for workers to feel safe to be open about their workloads and to bring any potential issues to leadership before they become unfixable.
Read more tips and get the full article online: I’m the CEO of a company with 177 employees that’s been entirely remote for 13 years. Here are 5 ways we built a thriving remote work culture.
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