Roger Delves, an Oxford trained professor has counseled Nigerian leaders on building trust among their remote teams to survive in the present global turbulent times.
Delves who is among the faculty for the March programme of TEXEM UK, a United Kingdom based leadership development organisation, said building trust remotely takes longer than building trust in a live environment.
He spoke on TEXEM’s website, www.texem.co.uk, while answering questions on the programme coming up from March 9 to March 23 online; and between March 25 and March 27, in the UK.
The TEXEM hybrid programme for Nigerian leaders is titled
Effective Leadership In a Distributed World: Pioneering Enduring Legacies.
Delves added that building trust is more difficult and takes longer to build the concept called psychological safety.
“Trust can only be built successfully with psychological safety being present.
“So, if your organisation consists of remote teams, or a mix of live and remote teams, or a mix of hybrid, remote and live teams, Nigerian leaders must make stringent efforts with each individual in each team, regardless of the nature of the team.
“For example, having conversations with individuals within which the individual and the leader share personal information helps create this sense of safety and trust.
“This information will include things like their sense of purpose around their work, their sense of personal values, and their sense of personal ambition for the team, the organisation and themselves,” he said.(NAN)
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