How to foster effective communication in a remote workplace

Jason and Bart discuss Jason's holiday experiences, including taking a trip around New York City with a partner from work. They then transition into discussing Jason's topic for the day, which he got from a LinkedIn post. The topic is effective communication in the workplace. Jason and Bart discuss the various ways in which communication can break down in the workplace and offer tips for avoiding these communication breakdowns.

TIMESTAMPS 

0:00:02   Jason and Bart's Professional Conversation for the New Year

0:02:14   Communication on the Team: Promoting Communication

0:04:03   The Use of Tools for Communication in a Remote Work Environment

0:06:49   The Importance of Communication in a Remote Work Environment

0:08:25   The Importance of Communication in the Workplace

0:10:33   The Importance of Good Communication in the Workplace

0:14:02   Leadership in a Remote Environment

0:15:26   Leadership Communication: The Importance of Listening

0:20:14   The Importance of Hiring Employees Who Can Solve Problems

0:21:42   Crowd Favorite CEO Talks Promoting Communication in the Workplace

0:25:08   Hiring for Communication Fit

0:27:05   The Snarky Culture of [Company Name]

HIGHLIGHTS 

Communication stuff is part of your branding. It's part of your marketing strategy. I think finding communication fit in the hiring process, that's true culture fit. When you really think about it, it's more important than whether you like the same IPA or the same football team or the same whatever, same car, same movies.

I'm not always involved in the hiring process for everybody, and in that meeting, I usually share notes with the management team about people about that meeting. Hey, this is what I found out about the onboarding process, what they liked, what they didn't, what we could do better.

I think we've got a lot of children of the financial crisis coming into the job market. I think you've got a lot of people who were born after 911 coming into the job market in the next few years as well, which is kind of crazy.

I'm hiring my employees to solve those problems. The idea is that they need to or solve my problems. I had this in my head and I looked at it.

And I think one of the ways that you can stifle communication as opposed to promoting it is be the know it all leader. Even if you know the answer honestly, it's better for your business sometimes to see if the team can get to the result.