It All Starts With a Smile: How To Foster a Sense of Belonging in Remote Teams
summary
Company adopts a concrete engineering framework launched three years ago with people leads running regular one‑to‑ones and cluster calls, guilds meeting twice a month, and business strategy leads running R&D quests. It enforces a 360 feedback practice, an upstream policy that buys paid time and travel for conferences, and a kudos channel on Mattermost plus remote wellbeing events like the “paparazzi challenge.” These measures increase engagement, support measurable professional growth, raise upstream contributions, and reduce attrition.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Start
- 0:21Introduction into Who I Am
- 1:25Does Increase Job Satisfaction
- 1:49Work-Life Balance
- 7:19Empathy
- 8:09Communication
- 8:35Adapt Your Style to the Communication That each Person Is Comfortable with
- 16:22Cluster Calls
- 18:59360 Feedback
- 22:39Health and Wellbeing Initiatives
- 28:34Active Listening
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