Question: What is the best way to build close relationships with my team?
The best way to build close relationships with your team, and inherently build a successful remote team, is having regular face-to-face meetings. If your travel budget allows, it would be great to have a face-to-face meeting every 6 months or so. For example, have a 2-day meeting in which you provide updates and the team shares best practices and discusses challenges and solutions.
If you can’t do it face-to-face, the alternative is to conduct a regular bi-weekly or monthly meeting virtually. Below are possible topics to discuss and share during the meeting:
- Business and sales updates
- Status of the company
- Success matrix and reality check
- Product roadmap and launch timing
- Messaging, product positioning, and content planning
- Marketing research and insights
- Best practices and updates
- Budget discussion
- Tools and processes
- Co-marketing plans with partners
In other words, building close relationships require time and effort. There are no shortcuts.
Please, if you want to learn more about how to build a successful remote team, or if you have some other marketing questions send it here or via Twitter @pamdidner.
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Who is Pam Didner?
Being in the corporate world for 20+ years and having held various positions from accounting and supply chain management, marketing to sales enablement, Pam has a holistic view of how a company runs. She thinks strategically and then translates the big picture into actionable plans and tactics.
