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Hints from HR - building successful and

motivated remote team

June 2012

Our Philosophy

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connected

flat

mobile

3.0 world- what makes people motivated

motivation 3.0 world

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Interesting tasks Increase competence

MASTERY

Developing real product, knowing overall aim, belonging to something big

Making a difference

PURPOSE

Opportunity to make decisions

AUTONOMY=

Responsibility

Most frequently

mentioned motivators

What they are really

saying

3.0 World, motivated team someone needs to build it and others will follow

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Rule number 1: There must be someone on your

side who wants to build this team, succeed with this team, drive

it to success!

Rule number 2: There must be someone off shore, on our side having the same

aim and vision!

No matter

how high tech

it gets: it’s about people.

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Rule number 3:

Come regularly, visit your team, bring your team on side

engage them, share the info, get involved!

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Our Philosophy

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“Scrum is not a methodology –

it is a pathway” - Ken Schwaber 2005

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Scrum values

Courage

It takes courage to call out problems, ask for help, offer help,

receive it. It takes courage to make decisions and to say no

Focus

Concentration of attention, when you focus- you can learn, dig

deeper and understand better

Commitment

It is about conscious commitment, doing a promise together and

make everything to keep it. It is about setting priorities and make

them happened

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Scrum values

Respect/ Trust

On a practical level it means taking someone's feelings, needs,

thoughts, ideas and preferences into consideration. Take them

seriously and give them thoughts and value. It also means

accepting them and their individuality

Openness

It is a high level of transparency, level of being not secretive.

Openly share thoughts, worries, issues, feelings- to open them

with the aim to understand each other better, quicker and make

it more comfortable and easy to work together, to bring better

results

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Scrum is a new way of thinking

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How to make Rule number 2

happen. (There must be someone off shore, on our side

having the same aim and vision)

How to select

YOUR

right one

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Interview-

checking if you are on the same page

Check if the person shares your vision:

Ex: If you are looking for a Scrum master/Technical lead/…

ask what is the Scrum Master/TL/…for the candidate; who

he/she believes is a professional SM/TL/…

*Compare

Check if the person shares your criteria of success:

Ex: Ask what he/she would regard as

success of the team, product, cooperation

*Compare

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Interview

Check if his/her motivation factors are close to you, you share

and UNDERSTAND them. If you enjoy similar things at work.

Ask if he/she likes Swiss chocolate?

Ask what make him/her happy at work

What he/she enjoys doing

and achieving

What was his/her best job

and why

What was his/her biggest

achievements

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Interview-

checking people management skills

Check how the person motives people:

Ex: what he would do if he sees everyone is preforming well, if

deadlines are met….if someone in the team would make an

outstanding job

Check how the person deals with difficult situations in the team:

Ex: how he would deal with

not motivated/low-performing colleague

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Interview

Check how proactive the person is:

Ask case questions:

What would you do if you see that you/the team will not stick to

promises/will not meet deadline…?

What would you do if you see quality is poor?

What would you do if you see

the decision we made was not the right

one?

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Interview

Check if the person looks for solution or looks for obstacles:

Ex: Ask what obstacles he used to face at his previous/current

job and dig into this:

-why he thinks they appeared

-who caused them

-could he influence

-what would he do if he was

given all the authority to

overcome them

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Interview

Check if the person expects from you what you are going to

give:

Ask what he/she expects from his manager

Ask who was his/her best

manager and why

Ask what he/she respects in

people and

what he dislikes

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Select your right one and

enjoy building your motivated team!

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