Managing Remote Teams #2: How to Bring the Real YOU by Creating Group Norms
Managers are expected to be office superheroes. To be a bastion of company culture. To master their own responsibilities while shepherding a team of high-performing individuals. Especially when managing remote teams. A sign of terrific culture is a high-performing team. High-performing teams are made up of individual contributors that are in synch and fire on all cylinders. They trust each other. They communicate. We now know that a consistent trait of high-performing teams is that the people in them feel safe to be their authentic selves; they feel they can express their ideas without fear of reproach (thanks for studying this, Google). The thing that makes team members bring their authentic self to work? Psychological safety. Coined by Amy Edmunson, a…