What contributes to team members trusting each other in virtual teams? In today's episode, we present a range of thoughts, questions and suggestions to help maintain trust in virtual teams. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com “If we don’t have the trust, eventually you don’t have a team, you have a bunch of individuals that are sort of working together, but not really working together towards the same purpose.” (Mark Kilby) History of Virtual Team Talk and this project 06:50mins "What level of trust does my team need, right now, to be effective?" Calculated Trust: You follow the rules because the cost of not doing so is greater then the value of breaking the rule. How Trust Emerges 13:10mins Self-Awareness: What helps us to build trust, how does my behaviour impact how others trust me You can read the blog post about the first meeting we had in virtualteamtalk.com In this episode you will hear the voices of Mark Kilby, who’s an agile coach working in a company called Sonatype, which is 95% distributed. They have developers all the way from Thailand to Alaska, working from home. And Melanie Pürschel who is developing software for remote teams and she’s currently working on the Team Mood Tracker. As a psychologist in IT she’s interested in how to support teams through technology. And thanks to Terrance, Jochen, Kayt and Kevin for their thoughts and contributions to this project too.  16:34 mins Individual behaviours that help us trust someone or distrust them   06:50mins "What level of trust does my team need, right now, to be effective?" Calculated Trust: You follow the rules because the cost of not doing so is greater then the value of breaking the rule. How Trust Emerges 13:10mins Self-Awareness: What helps us to build trust, how does my behaviour impact how others trust me You can read the blog post about the first meeting we had in virtualteamtalk.com In this episode you will hear the voices of Mark Kilby, who’s an agile coach working in a company called Sonatype, which is 95% distributed. They have developers all the way from Thailand to Alaska, working from home. And Melanie Pürschel who is developing software for remote teams and she’s currently working on the Team Mood Tracker. As a psychologist in IT she’s interested in how to support teams through technology. And thanks to Terrance, Jochen, Kayt and Kevin for their thoughts and contributions to this project too.  16:34 mins Indiv   Trust and conflict. Can you be yourself? Can you trust others to call out unsuitable behaviour? Managers who want harmony all the time. Do we trust/distrust certain professions more than others? How is trust built in cross-functional teams? 27:04minsBuilding trust in new teams and the question of control 36:33mins Designing pairing opportunities to “do” something, the sense of camaraderie, purpose, alignment, can be brought out. 38:49mins  Norm formation and trust emergence. Trust as a broad corridor. 41:18mins Reliability  “Is there anything else we should be talking about?” is a really important question. That can be turned into a process, something that we integrate into our meeting processes. Trust is about understanding people’s behaviour when it doesn’t match our own. 48:10 Traits of people working remotely.  Work life and Home life To screen or not to screen? Some of the resources we talked about: Blog post on discussion on trust https://virtualteamtalk.com/2016/11/05/trust-in-teams-1/ Live broadcast of this topic: https://virtualteamtalk.com/2017/02/14/we-continue-talking-about-trust/ http://www.retrospectives.com/pages/Anatomy.html and search the page for "Making the magic happen" Drexler/Sibbet Team Performance Modelhttp://community.fansshare.com/pic118/w/high-performance-teams/1200/14499_drexler_sibbet_team_performance_model.jpg (104KB) https://runbook.freistil.it/operations/ https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-neuroscience-of-trust http://www.leadershipnow.com/leadingblog/2016/09/the_10_laws_of_trust.html NOBL newsletter h