Distributed teams have unique challenges, and unique rewards.
In a recent call with our product management community, Shaun McGough walked through how Elastic came to be a distributed company, what the culture is like, and how resilient the model has proven.
Read moreIf you leave the corporate headquarter in any large, complex and global organisation, it’s not unusual to hear headquarters described using terms familiar from any love-hate relationship. Being at the receiving end of directives from HQ, while working hard to make sales goals in local markets can easily lead to despair and frustration.
As a part of the onboarding process at VELUX Group, Andreas Klinke Johannsen requires new team members to work locally as an embedded part of a local team. Might this be the key ingredient that can unlock better collaboration and higher performance?
Read moreRemote and distributed teams are getting more normal, but to make it work for everyone, you need to go back and understand the practices that foster engagement and responsibility in a team. What are the challenges? How do we overcome them, allowing more autonomy for such teams?
Looking at the employee experience through the eyes of different personas, the needs and expectations clearly vary a lot.
Read moreRemote working is on the rise for a number of reasons and has been for a while. Today it has become quite common that some companies are shutting down offices (or never opening any in the first place) and relying entirely or almost entirely on remote working.
While there’s no doubt that remote working can be very successful and is enabling whole new forms of organization, there are undoubtedly aspects that may be new to traditional, co-located companies, which they will need to consider.
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