Engineering Managers Managing Remote Teams

Building strong trust is IMHO much harder remotely. That affects both manager/employee trust and trust among employees remote from each other. And without strong bonds of trust, certain things get much harder, such as negative feedback, even when delivered constructively.

Note that I'm not saying you can't build strong trust, just that it's harder. You have to devote considerably more thought and intentional time to it. I say intentional time because when you're local to someone, you naturally build trust with them in every small interaction. In a remote setting, you need to create time and space for those interactions deliberately.

We've just made an online conference on managing remote teams, you should check out the recordings: https://6nomads.com/remote-conf

I'd recommend watching Andrei Rebrov (CTO & Co-founder at Scentbird) and David Tabachnikov (Co-CEO at ScholarshipOwl)

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