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Share an experience when you felt great as part of a long-distance team, or a team in general.

Big Ideas:

Is virtual the right word?
Long distance, remote, or virtual - Are they interchangeable?
Long distance being more neutral
Virtual teams used to be for individuals meeting for a certain project, where not everyone worked for the same boss
Who's the hub for all the spokes?
Who owns the team? Compliance versus ownership
All teams have a culture, but no one person owns the culture, it's the responsibility of everyone on the team
Proximity allows us to "read" cues more easily
Beyond 40-50 feet level of engagement drops
Distance and availability are both factors
Virtual reduces spontaneous interactions
Proximity bias - asking people who are closer
Us/them them in hybrid settings
Settling for lowest common denominator when accomodating remote?
What's the best experience for the team?
Long distance reveals the true team dynamics - especially the "bad" ones
Good leadership systems work across all types of disruptions
Leadership first, location second
Keeping hours of your manager when you are in a different time zone
Managing for activity versus productivity
If you have an empowered, trusted team, where they do that doesn't matter
There are some organizations where proximity matters
Can the work be done no matter where people are?
Every annoying policy was created because of one person or incident
Policies can create discrepancies
Pilot before policy
2/3 of our workplace communication takes place in writing - we don't do it very well
What role does time (when we work) play in the culture we want?
Rather than having conversations with people, managers create policies
Managing to the exception
Do the rules of the company demonstrate trust?
What is the IT of culture?
Communication, collaboration and culture - the little things
Does everything have to be a meeting?
Shift in how our relationships have developed over time - more and more online
Having 1:1 conversations with teams, even online
Be wary of transactional communication because they don't build relationships
What works in person ? Translate that intentionally to online spaces

Resources:

The Long Distance Leader by Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel
The Long Distance Teammate by Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel
The Long Distance Team by Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel
Virtual Not Distance Podcast

Wayne Turmel Bio:
For 25 years, Wayne Turmel has been obsessed with how people communicate—or don’t—at work. He is an internationally recognized expert in remote work and the evolving workplace who is the author of 15 books and has spoken around the world. He is best known for the Long Distance Workplace books: The Long Distance Team, Long Distance Teammate and The Long-Distance Leader. Originally from Canada, he now lives and works in Las Vegas. Marshall Goldsmith has called him “one of the unique voices in Leadership.”

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