Episode 689 | How to Keep Your Remote Team Motivated and Engaged

Startups For the Rest of Us

Rob Walling

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In episode 689, Rob Walling interviews Robert Cserti, co-founder of SessionLab. Robert and his team provide tools and resources for designing workshops and SessionLab operates fully remote. Rob and Robert discuss strategies for motivating remote teams, fostering team culture and communication, and being intentional about synchronous meetings and team bonding. Episode Sponsor: Find your perfect developer or a team at Lemon.io/startups The competition for incredible engineers and developers has never been more fierce. Lemon.io helps you cut through the noise and find great talent through its network of engineers in Europe and Latin America. They take care of the vetting, interviewing, and testing of candidates to make sure that you are working with someone who can hit the ground running. When it comes to hiring, the time it takes to write your job description, list the position, review resumes, schedule interviews, and make an offer can take weeks, if not months. With Lemon.io, you can cut down on a lot of that time by tapping into their wide network of developers who can get started in as early as a week. And for subscribers of Startups For the Rest of Us, you can get 15% off your first 4 week contract with a developer by visiting lemon.io/startups Topics we cover: 2:01 – SessionLab, for creating workshops 3:42 – Keeping employee engagement high in remote teams, intentionally creating a workplace culture. 7:15 – Daily check-ins, synchronous vs. asynchronous communication 10:32 – Finding a cadence for synchronous calls and “all-hands” 13:20 – Planning in team retreats 15:18 – Meetings specifically for team bonding 18:42 – Regularly scheduled, random 1:1 social chats 21:05 – Experimenting with tools to facilitate communication and identify issues early 26:02 – Managing synchronous working overlap across time zones Links from the Show: Are you considering selling your SaaS business? The Psychology of Exiting Your Company Quiet Light Robert Cserti | LinkedIn SessionLab (@SessionLab) | X SessionLab SessionLab’s Library of facilitation techniques Geekbot Cozy Juicy Real Donut SpatialChat If you have questions about starting or scaling a software...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Startups for the Rest of Us. I'm Rob Walling, and today I sit down with Robert Serti,
0:05.5	and we talk about how to keep your remote team motivated and engaged. This topic is based on a
0:13.0	request that I received at MicroConf Europe. And Robert, as the founder of Session Lab, and a team of
0:19.5	13, has quite a bit of experience on this topic.
0:22.5	So he's a founder, not a business coach or a consultant on how to keep your remote team motivated and engaged,
0:28.0	but they have experimented a lot over the years with strategies and approaches for doing so.
0:34.1	And I think it turned out to be a great conversation.
0:37.4	If you've ever thought about
0:38.7	selling your SaaS company or your WordPress plugin or even a content website, head to
0:43.9	microconf.com.com slash sell. We have some great resources for you there, such as the psychology
0:49.6	of exiting your company, which was a talk by our very own Dr. Sherry Walling, as well as a way to opt in to hear about our exit event, which is an exclusive microconfer treat we're thinking about running next year.
1:01.9	Plus links to episodes of startups for the rest of us, and all of this is brought to you by our brokerage partner for 2023.
1:09.5	It's Quiet Light Brokerage. They're an entrepreneur-led organization
1:12.7	that assist people with growing, buying, and selling online businesses. I have a very high
1:18.3	opinion of QuietLight and how they operate their business. Their reputation is stellar in our
1:23.7	space. Thank you to QuietLight for supporting MicroConf and this podcast, and I hope you'll check
1:30.0	out microconf.com slash sell, as well as QuietLight.com. If you're interested in learning more about
1:36.6	buying, selling, and growing your online business. And with that, let's dive into my conversation
1:42.1	about keeping your remote team motivated and engaged.
1:55.9	Robert, thanks so much for joining me.
1:57.6	Thank you.
1:58.3	Exactly to be here.
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