Building and Maintaining a Remote Team Culture
summary
A remote design team of about 55–65 people creates a committee called fostering connections and runs weekly rituals like virtual wind downs, lunch‑and‑learns and quarterly all‑hands using Microsoft Teams, Figma and FigJam. Trivia (run three times) and an organized hike prove highly engaging; anonymous Microsoft Forms feedback leads to cadence changes from twice monthly to every three weeks to reduce fatigue. The team uses 5–6 personality assessments and is piloting a personal user guide to document working norms.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Start
- 0:10Introduction and background
- 3:59From in-office to remote culture
- 6:30What is team culture?
- 9:05Framework for team building activities
- 10:49Challenges of remote team culture
- 13:24Communication strategies
- 14:47Building community intentionally
- 19:04Proximity bias in remote teams
- 20:35Celebrating differences
- 22:01Feedback and adjustments
- 23:05Personality and working styles
- 24:38Team rituals and their benefits
- 26:02Examples of effective rituals
- 28:12Importance of feedback
- 29:17Everyone’s role in culture
- 31:48Q&A on culture challenges
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