How to Build Trust on Your Virtual Team 2022

June 5, 2022



Four tips for unifying and strengthening globally dispersed teams.

(Originally published July 14, 2015) Teams can’t function well when co-workers don’t trust one another. Building and maintaining trust in the traditional, physical workplace is difficult enough, but the process is even tougher in a virtual environment.

* Originally published July 14, 2015

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12 Comments
  1. thanks for the video

  2. Reply
    Sri Ram Kumar Chandrasekharan June 5, 2022 at 1:17 pm

    General platitudes with all buzz words thrown in .

  3. Reply
    RAMON RICO MUÑOZ June 5, 2022 at 1:17 pm

    Just in case anyone wants further information regarding how communication patterns help to build trust on virtual teams:

    Rico, R., Alcover, C. M., Sánchez-Manzanares, M., & Gil, F. (2009). The joint relationships of communication behaviors and task interdependence on trust building and change in virtual project teams. Social science information, 48(2), 229-255.

  4. thanks a lot! great and concise talk

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  6. Good Video.

    This is also a good video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxi9EFDv2iI

  7. Concise and Useful. Good one.

  8. Thank you for this was much needed. Remote work is the new normal and we need to come up with ways to handle it- maybe some more expert insights can help https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwL9Nqnam5qojFSexS66RWQ?sub_confirmation=1 here's a one stop FREE knowledge hub with top global leaders on future of work and much more.

  9. It's SUPER important to build virtual leadership skills to adapt to the VUCA that COVID has created. We better get ready for this because research estimates at least 25%-30% of people will work from home multiple days per week by 2021.

  10. Thank you dear

  11. Excellent!!
    Regards,
    Leonardo Cardillo
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardocardillo

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