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Add new exercises that give every participant the chance to experience what it is like to attend a remote meeting "from the other side", i.e. from the remote side.

• Rotating constellations that put everyone in the remote perspective
• variations: just one remote participant vs a group of remote participants => very easy to loose the remote satellite
• variation: add ambassador in every multi-site-team. Compare what he observes and how he can enhance mutual understanding.
• finish with good example in which everything went great
• if group of participants large enough, put a monitoring person in each room to take notes on how the persons act and what they say. This adds a neutral perspective.
• for the usual setting "on-site plus one remote site" enough to do that with two rooms
• additional level for remote-first: more rooms. Couple of larger rooms for big sites plus a couple of small rooms for satellite workers. In larger rooms: everyone with own headset.
• preparation for this allows for customizationi of the workshop to specific team settings - organizational call beforehand necessary

This may extend the workshop to two days instead of just one.

Add to leading-chapter: https://management30.com/practice/moving-motivators/ and https://1qjpt15fhlq3xjfpm2utibj1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Moving-Motivators-2015-self-print-A4-English.pdf

• trust-formula see remote podcast
• leading-factor: one-on-one at the beginning of the project, update-talks, different focus (more on personal gain), less identification with actual customer, ...

I had a look at Steven's website and read one of his articles about remote working. In the article from "Java Magazine" a link to this repository was mentioned.

I agree with a lot of things written but one thing that I do find missing (or which could be developed further) is the intercultural aspect between cultures which IMHO goes far beyond than language skills. Language skills are mentioned but for me the aspect of culture and assumptions taken for granted go a lot further.

As an example Germany focuses a lot on punctuality for team meeting but different cultures might have different attitudes towards time and work ethics. After all Romania has been living under Socialism for decades in the past.

Personally I find the Hofstede Cultural Dimensions to be quite good and suitable but you might also want to take a look at some work by Fons Trompenaars or Richard D. Lewis.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Hofstede

Also have a look at the "Iceberg model in international communication". There are also some intercultural games such as "Barnga" you might want to include in the workshop.

Stay strong, be of good courage. Happy hacking!

Background: not clear if content is final / draft

Add to leading-chapter: https://de.slideshare.net/EricBrownTopLinked/the-5-dysfunctions-of-a-team-32077265

Add 5 phases of teambuilding to leading-chapter, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teambildung