How to build a remote content team — Liam Martin // Time Doctor

Quotes

• “The closer you get to synchronist communication, the more difficult it becomes. In essence, the sales department is the most difficult department to be able to bring remote.” - Liam “Asynchronist communication affords the individual employee more freedom. One of the major barriers towards remote work is the lack of collaboration that occurs inside of remote teams.  ” - Liam  “With regards to content in comparison, they have more disconnected tasks and they don’t necessarily require the type of collaboration that sales need in order to succeed.” - Liam “I think one of the reasons why traditional or old school businesses are a little hesitant to move towards remote work is they want everybody in the house so they can build that institutional knowledge.” - Ben“We are going to see a fundamental shift in the way people work. Once the economic correction happens, large corporations are going to recognize the value of remote work arrangement because the infrastructure has already been laid for remote work. We have Zoom and Slack, these tools that facilitate remote work.” - Liam “You need to understand your cultural breakdown.” - Liam “I generally have a higher communication which is in person is better than in the video, video is better than audio, audio is better than instant messaging and instant messaging is better than email. You want to move up the chain because it allows you to be more focused and allows communication for the non-verbal components.” - Liam  “In remote work set up, you need to understand all of your processes. No one single individual should know a piece of information that shouldn’t be shared with at least a second individual. Take documentation, put it in one place, write it down, digitize it and make it shareable throughout your entire organization. If you can do that, it will be one of the biggest game-changers in your business.” - Liam