Here at Aula (35-person remote-first startup building a ‘Slack for education’), we’ve done the following:
1. Dedicate sync time to the stuff that’s otherwise hard to do such as relationship building - ‘remote coffees’, an onboarding focused on getting under the skin of each other. Wholesome stuff.
2. Your post mentions ‘protocols for communication’. We’ve engineered templates for all team meetings to direct the conversation towards the topics we think matters the most.
3. Documentation is needed in an async workplace; if you encourage commenting on/challenging everything, you foster an ‘always in beta’ culture where everyone can make edits.
We’re still working on building a culture where remote team members proactively reach out to each other to ‘hang out’ on video calls if they feel socially under stimulated.
We are mostly looking for people with experience in the 'craft' of product management at the moment - or for people who understand educators and their workflows very well.
However, if you send across your LinkedIn to [email protected] I can quickly check in with Adrian, our CPO, to see if he thinks its worth starting a conversation.
We’re pretty focused on community in digital space. That’s what our product does and it’s how we make remote work work.
I just wanted to share that most applicants leave the interview process with new friends - have a look from the candidate slack group: https://cl.ly/ef2b105e6159
1. Dedicate sync time to the stuff that’s otherwise hard to do such as relationship building - ‘remote coffees’, an onboarding focused on getting under the skin of each other. Wholesome stuff. 2. Your post mentions ‘protocols for communication’. We’ve engineered templates for all team meetings to direct the conversation towards the topics we think matters the most. 3. Documentation is needed in an async workplace; if you encourage commenting on/challenging everything, you foster an ‘always in beta’ culture where everyone can make edits.
We’re still working on building a culture where remote team members proactively reach out to each other to ‘hang out’ on video calls if they feel socially under stimulated.
Has anyone solved that?