From Pixels to People

How are you maintaining strong communication and retaining your culture as the physical distance between your team members increases?

A distributed team is an incredible way to tap into better and more diverse talent around the globe. If you haven't taken this step yet, it's highly likely that you will over the next few years.

I was chatting yesterday with a great leader who has built a unique and highly people-first culture on her team. But as her team has become more distributed over the past few years, it's been tricky to keep the same intentional culture. It's still working, but as that team grows it will get harder and harder.

There are a lot of good strategies to help. But at their core, they all start with recognizing the unique humanity of the people that make up our teams.

With distance, and having never met in person, we can much more easily see remote teammates as digital presences - units that just produce work and don't have real lives. Not intentionally, but it happens regardless.

And, when in the near future you DO have fully digital AI-based colleagues, it will get even harder to recognize the humanity in the real people that also form a part of your team.

What are you doing to recognize the humans that form your teams, and their unique perspectives, styles, and preferences?

At Crewjoy we're building a platform to help. Where every interaction your team has can be powered by human-centric data that leverages this diversity on your team. Reach out if you'd like to learn how.

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