#546 How To Create Trust In A Remote Team: Kevin Dias interviewed by Niels Brabandt
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Niels Brabandt interviews Kevin Dias on building trust in remote teams through effective leadership practices.
How can leaders create trust in remote teams when colleagues may never have worked together in the same office? In this leadership podcast episode, Niels Brabandt interviews Kevin Dias, a remote-work leader based in Japan who works with a fully distributed team across the United States and several additional countries. Kevin Dias explains why trust in remote teams starts with hiring for autonomy and written communication, but cannot stop there. He discusses the role of team working agreements, asynchronous communication, visible decision-making, predictable meeting rhythms, psychological safety and the disciplined avoidance of micromanagement. The interview also explores why remote flexibility must be connected to accountability, why leaders should make their thinking visible and how teams can move faster when they understand the difference between one-way-door and two-way-door decisions. For decision-makers in business, this conversation offers a practical leadership framework for building trust, clarity and performance in remote teams. Kevin Dias and Niels Brabandt discuss what remote leaders should do, what they should avoid and how distributed teams can replace office-based…
People in this episode
Host: Niels Brabandt
Guest: Kevin Dias
Topics covered
- trust in remote teams
- leadership
- remote work
- communication
- team dynamics
- accountability
Keywords
- remote teams
- trust
- leadership framework
- asynchronous communication
- psychological safety
- micromanagement
- decision-making
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Places: Japan, United States
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