Work Cultures That Work: Keys to Fostering a Conscious Culture (Remotely)

How do you get the buy-in from the different cultures (if you have a multi-cultural remote team)?

Do culture norms need to be made into a policy?

What are the best ways to foster culture, all while making it feel like it isn't "forced fun"?

How would you motivate an employ during these times? Sometimes, lack of social life comes through as demotivation at work.

What are some ways to best integrate new employees to the team and company?

What are some ideas to further foster culture in existing interactions vs adding new meetings/conversations/threads/chats/etc.

How do you foster culture initiatives and celebrations when teams are feeling burnt out from video calls?

What have been some of the biggest mistakes / pitfalls companies have made in the past couple months to try to create a positive remote culture? Basically, what should we not do?

Wondering about successful ways to build remote culture that don't involve another video call - could be more analogue, by mail, something else entirely? We're all feeling the video call burn out...

When there is an in-group and an out-group within an organization, how do you create an environment of inclusion?

What are some ways to distribute responsibility across employees so that maintaining and evolving culture doesn't sit with just one team?

How do you foster and measure belonging? (or feelings of belonging)? What benchmarks are out there to compare to that? How do you build a feedback seeking/ high feedback culture in a remote...

What questions should we be asking employees to asses if we are truly maintaining an engaging, positive culture in a remote environment? How do we identify what our staff really wants in this "new...

What are the best ways to measure and foster psychological safety in remote teams in ways that don't lead or add to Zoom fatigue?

How do you sustain the magic of a company culture in a blended environment? Does leadership in a remote environment look different? Are leaders needing to draw on different skills? What is...

Which cultures were more fitted to adopting these '2020 new ways of working' and which were less fitted? Do you have any examples?

remote working in a small organisation

Is there an upside to what is happening right now?

What behaviors should leaders model and encourage to ensure everyone on their team has an equitable amount of visibility and opportunity to be heard in virtual meetings?

How do you prevent Zoom burnout and minimize meeting time?

How to shape culture as an entry-level employee

How do you get good quality meetings?

Prior to COVID, employees were pretty well forced into a work/home life separation. Company culture was very important to employees when they had to physically leave their home and spend so much...

Looking forward to hearing great tips

Often you come into an organization which is looking for change but is carrying a lot of baggage from "how things have always worked around here". The change then often requires a break from the...

How to think about work culture when starting a business with a very small team?

Best ways to assess a culture? Then what?

What advice would you give to team managers to take this larger "company culture" concepts and apply them to their teams daily and weekly practices while remote?

What’s the best way to evaluate a company culture before you accept a role? I have been a contractor at a company and once I became a full time employee my experience was worse.

We've been operating well remotely during COVID and the organization may continue remote work indefinitely for most teams. How does remote work during a crisis change as it becomes a norm for the...

How we can reinforce culture in a home office 100% environment?

What are different techniques used to create the remote informal interaction time? - i.e. alternatives to lunch in the kitchen or drinking a beer with a colleague Friday night.

How can managers support teams to stay motivated and focused in their roles when so much is happening in the world (e.g. social, economic, public health, climate, political, etc) throughout the world?

What tips do you have to re-ignite excitement about a company mission and culture when teams are feeling burnt out?

What have you found to be the best method for igniting inspiration among individuals whose role it is to think creatively through collaborative working, but remotely?

What can you recommend to balance the human element with efficiency? I struggle with wanting to start meetings ASAP but folks seem to need a bit of social time.

How do we integrate rest and fun into a remote/hybrid working culture? (as a remedy for burn-out)

how do we effectively onboard and integrate new employees into a virtual environment?

With Zoom fatigue now a cited problem, how do you balance screen time for team celebrations that were fun IRL but might be more exhaustive via Zoom? For example, team happy hours or birthday celebrations.

rituals for remote teams?

How do we maintain our culture during all remote work?