CHAPTER 15
New to the Team? Here’s How to Build Trust (Remotely)
by Ruchi Sinha
Trust isn’t easy to build. It develops slowly, typically after you and another person have spent some time interacting and assessing each other’s character.
If all goes well and trust builds, you start to feel psychologically safe and can form a stable belief about one another. But remote and flexible work makes all of this difficult to do.
Many of us are interacting through our screens and working on hybrid teams with people located in various areas of the world, who are online at different times of the day, and who we’re not likely to get solid face-to-face time with. We lack the luxury of regularly observing our peers in person, making it harder to gauge their ...
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