#3: The Power of Feedback in Distributed teams 💪

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Harness the Power of Feedback in Distributed Teams

Trust and transparency are pivotal in a remote-first organization. Effective feedback is one of the most impactful ways to foster these values. As HR leaders and distributed team managers, here's what you can do:

🥇 Prioritize Feedback from Day One: Introduce new team members to the culture of candid feedback during their onboarding. Use resources like Kim Scott's "Radical Candor" to underscore its significance.

🌱 Train and Lead: Ensure leaders aren't just providing feedback, but are also models of how to give, receive, and request it.

📚 Institutionalize Feedback: Make feedback a regular practice, not a one-time event. Employ tools like After Action Reviews and quarterly 360 feedback sessions, ensuring they're transparent and inclusive.

💪 Overcome Communication Barriers: In a remote setting, where non-verbal cues might be missed and cross-cultural nuances exist, it's even more crucial to practice and refine your feedback skills.

→ Remember, feedback is not just about growth—it's about creating a sense of belonging and care in a distributed team.

📰 Article of the week

Billionaire Tech CEO Scott Farquhar Is In No Rush to Return to Office

Despite many tech founders calling their employees back to the office Scott Farquhar, CEO of Atlassian, doesn’t care for the whole return-to-office trend. Most of his employees work remotely and he doesn’t see any problem in that.

“I work from home all the time. I might come into the office about once a quarter,” Farquhar said.

Farquhar hasn’t noticed any harm to productivity or company culture as a result of hybrid working and told 60 Minutes: “Their work is a vocation, not a location, and so we expect people to be able to work from home, from a cafe, from an office, but we don’t really care where they do their work—what we care about is the output that they produce”.

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Iwo & the Remote-How team 💙