I love love LOVE that last line: "Suffering is done alone, struggling is done together." Thanks so much for sharing, a few great takeaways for our team.
Thank y'all for "pulling back the curtain." This is a good example of the vulnerability leading to trust that Brene Brown talks about. My wife is a school educator and she and her team are now working remote. We're also now working remote to build community in our apartments through our family job with Apartment Life. It's been a tough change with a new baby at home. So thank you again for the "remote" encouragement. My wife and I have been big fans for several years now.
Great teams talk more together than mediocre teams. And they talk better together. Conversations that inspire, engage and energize? You can tell from the faces that they enjoy being in the team. One of the great challenges of teams: what energy does the individual player bring on screen. What ideas? What constructive contribution? And the role of the moderator is crucial. Keep up the energy and spirits of the team. Very interesting to watch your example.
I rarely comment on here but this video is so raw and real I’m so impressed by the team’s openness and showing vulnerability to each other. I feel like there’s a genuine connection between you guys and I even did the breathing exercise in the beginning. It goes to show that creating a safe space is the foundation to building a strong team. Thank you Team Sinek for sharing your huddle with us.
Lots of great takeaways. Had to furlough 3 of my team members and was forced to hire some freelancers from the Philippines to save on labor costs. I’m running my first weekly all hands meeting where my w2 staff is out numbered by our freelancers (team of 15, 5 w2, 10 freelancers) tomorrow to preserve our close knit culture, improve morale and foster communication and trust with our new team members. This video is showing me that it’s possible to make remote teams work whether or not we’re in the same building, city or continent. Thanks guys.
Thank for sharing your “Huddle”. I want to get started with my teachers, as we navigate this new normal for our students and families. We have to remember to take care of each other, also.
I also conduct weekly calibration with my team (remotely) but I realized that it's always serious so last year since the pandemic I started to start our huddle with a game. It's so fun and the team is always looking forward to what the game would be for the week. I thought it will not work but they love it, we laugh a lot.
I am starting a taxi company here in Maine and I am putting this together by way of Simon's videos and this huddle as you call it this is really inspiring because even though I'm starting out when car me as a driver I plan on moving in taking over and I will do that. But you guys have all participated together so we think it's Simon but I'll tell you something you guys are a hell of a team and I just learned that with the past video that I saw and I can't remember your name a young man but I want to thank you for reaching out
I love this! Deep down in my heart I've been looking for a power team, I have 13 persons in a group, but the mindset have been of a follower's mindset, like I am a leader and I want to be a great one at that but I also don't want to be the one to tell people what to do, even though I tell them my vision, it's like I'm suppose to do all the work and then tell them what to do and thats the time they would do. I am sooooo depressed because of that. But this is an awesome idea and I am definitely going to try this! Thank you Simon!
What a wonderful example of leaders coming together to fill each other's pitchers so they can pour into others. Thank you for sharing this process with others in this time of need!
DEAR FRIENDS.....Your huddle, is really cool! Thank you for sharing. What a wonderful way to connect with each other. I get the feeling that you are more than just a group of people working for a company, you are friends from the heart, who really care about each other. You are the essence of a true family! More companies should embrace this type of practice. So many larger companies will say, "Well that's really nice but, it's not practical or it's too hard to get everyone together." BLAH, BLAH, BLAH! Yet, all of you are successful at it. I feel that comments like "it's too hard" or whatever, are just an excuse for not trying hard enough to put in the effort. Many times people get lost in these larger companies and feel disconnected. They feel like a number and that they and their opinions don't really matter. That they're just there taking up space. These kinds of feelings cause LOTS OF DISCOURAGEMENT and FRUSTRATION and ultimately brings company moral down. I think the ultimate goal in making a company stronger, is by first making the people, who work in it, stronger. YOU DO THAT, BY VALIDATING THEM. If you focus on your interactions with your people and show them that you really care about them, not just as an employee, but as a real person, those same people will give their loyalty and their fighting spirit to the company. No one wants to let down the team, because when you let down the team, you ultimately let down the company. I believe, if the team really wants to make a change, THEY WILL DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER, TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. It doesn't matter how big or small of a company you are. All the more reason to embrace it and do it. Could you imagine how AWESOME that would be, if every company in America got on board with this idea?? Just think? ALL OF OUR COMPANIES NATIONWIDE, working together to make our nation strong again, like we were years ago. WE COULD TAKE ON THE WORLD. Tammy Lynn Schulz. 😊👍❤🇺🇸
This is awesome man, HIGH FIVE to you team. I would like to high five to everyone because I now feel like I'm part of the team and thanks for the brilliant idea man. Peace
I enjoy this talk and work my way to include into the team. Language is a barrier because English is not our mother language, yet we'll work through it somehow. Thank you for sharing this. Greetings from Indonesia
So helpful thank you! My team is new to this and here are the makings of our future! This remote format is the new normal and the pointers here will support our work! 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for the inside look, definitely going to utilise some of your ideas (if you don't mind). Simon I am probably one of your biggest fans in SA and now I also love your team.
Proud to be a member of such a great team, at AMF in Richmond...We do a small Engineering Huddle every AM as a quick check-in....as we're transitioning to remote work, I see this as a helpful tool to assure our focus and energy is directed in the most effective direction...especially considering the distractions taking place around us! Thanks, Simon!!
I fully enjoyed that! I will suggest such a call at my work. I will contact my supervisor, whom I’ve already told about Simons work, and have her set it up. I work at The Royal Danish Theatre in the costume department and we are 16 people total in that department. I think we will benefit highly from such a call. Thank you guys!! Connection and community ☀️🌎🙏🏼
Hi dears! Thank you for sharing this with us. I personally love the principles on which Simon works and lives by and how he and his team share them. Today I am having a team meeting and I intend to propose this approach of building the trust within a team to my manager and my colleagues as we are quite new in this completely remote work. Cheers to all of you and keep up the good work! Sending love to all of you.
This is great, we are all working from home as well and doing daily check-ins with our teams. It's going to be really important in this landscape to have some sort of human contact with our peers and family away from home.
Thanks for the inside scoop! Will definitely take some of these nuggets (e.g. high fives, timed shares, and being fully present) into my remote meetings. Question for anyone with experience: What have you found to be the ideal number of participants for remote meetings? And also meeting length?
thank you guys for sharing your process. I've just started doing this virtual teaming thing with my team. coz of COVID19 quarantine. thanks you Mr. SInek & team for sharing this.
Totally agree with this need to have human moments together in distributed teams. I’m wondering what additional sensitivity is needed for multicultural teams in such cases. People from different cultural groups have different preferences for ‘public’ positive recognition or emotional transparency. Inclusiveness also means adapting to each other’s personal style. This format may work in the US but while the need for appreciation is universal how it is implemented (appropriately) changes across cultural contexts.
Wow this was super powerful. 🙏 From the breathing/grounding to the openness of the team members sharing, you can see the very positive result of creating a trusting environment (even if it is virtual). Congrats and keep up the great work 👏
Thank you so much for sharing, Simon. That's a good example we can use. I also liked the fact that you are present but not leading the Huddle, and that everyone has a limited time to talk, share and give the floor to the other as friends, mentioning the name of who's next. Well organized and feeling the Trust & servant leadership in the air👌 I'm used to Skype and Zoom. I'd like to know if there are other apps you can recommend. Thank you
Great idea, going to try it out with my team right away. Q: any particular time of day the huddle works best? Start your day with it, or wait for the mid-afternoon lull to help get over the hump?
As part of an HR team, I've requested that the idea and tips can be shared in our new mental health newsletter. Thanks for sharing all of that knowledge with us.
Thanks for this!, always surprised!!!! rebooth, love to know teams like exists not only in my mind!.Hope this coronavirus state empower many more changes and transformation in society , teams and way of doing things, we all need a new way , go forward, not back. cheers from Chile.
Thanks for the very helpful video! Your conferencing software worked flawlessly. Can you share the name of the conferencing software you use? Again, thanks!
Hey Simon. Love this concept. Quick question, proper Huddle etiquette, do you have everyone mute during the call until it’s their time to talk? Also are there any other etiquette rules you have for these calls?
We do coffee together every morning and also have lunch dates everyday, trying to keep the way it was before the quarantine. Everyone who feels like joining of course.
I’m inspired, as ever with Simon’s work. But I imagine this is wooden because this team knew it would be published. The primary issue I see with this is that it is not interactive. A series of broadcasters is NOT social interaction. And that is the challenge for us. 1). Have sessions like this. 2). Get the banter going, the back and forth. Sometimes that is easier in a chat room than a VC.
Do you think there could be benefits to the lack of back and forth? It seemed that it was perhaps more important to listen than to say anything in return, hence why people were simply putting the thumbs up in reply rather than saying anything in response. It seems likely that the things that were said in this huddle were discussed after the call in smaller groups.
Well, being honest, for the first couple of minutes it felt like "corporate cringe", however, eventually loved it at the end. Thanks for sharing; might try to convince my boss to do something similar or something.
Do you guys use Skype? If not, what other comm app do you use? Been working remotely from home for a week but one challenge I faced is that my routine schedule extended very substantially. Being a banker I accept there was a lot to cope with passing on digested info to clients, but it looks this Covid-19 crisis may extend into the coming weeks, any tip/advice of basic errors to avoid appreciated. Cheers 🦠🦠🦠
If the team is connected, it will show in their results. Could be high output with little burnout. And be able to work together for a long period of time.
This is what I want with my team, they are not interested. 😢 I need it so Im doing something like with my close friends. {my team is deaf, and I get it 😢 but still feel Sad and block}
For question of the week, what are you usually trying to accomplish with each other with this? In this call your answers are for the audience but it’s not as obvious for each other.
I want to say its cheesy or at least that is initial instinct but i do see the value - i see the challenge is the cultural piece to get people to talk and take it seriously.
Looks like a cult. I'd like to develop trust in my teammates without having to listen to their eating and health advice and giving forced virtual high fives. Respect for your coworkers and the work they do and trust in their ability and willingness to do it is paramount, sharing some jokes and good nature is also positive. Actively encouraging the sharing of emotions and family matters is unprofessional and in my opinion, manipulative. You are paying employees for their skills, their experience and their time, not their emotions. By making your team "a family" and encouraging home-life emotional expression you are making them dependent on you as a source of comfort. You are an employer, not a psychotherapist.
I love love LOVE that last line: "Suffering is done alone, struggling is done together."
Thanks so much for sharing, a few great takeaways for our team.
Thank y'all for "pulling back the curtain." This is a good example of the vulnerability leading to trust that Brene Brown talks about. My wife is a school educator and she and her team are now working remote. We're also now working remote to build community in our apartments through our family job with Apartment Life. It's been a tough change with a new baby at home. So thank you again for the "remote" encouragement. My wife and I have been big fans for several years now.
Great teams talk more together than mediocre teams. And they talk better together. Conversations that inspire, engage and energize? You can tell from the faces that they enjoy being in the team. One of the great challenges of teams: what energy does the individual player bring on screen. What ideas? What constructive contribution? And the role of the moderator is crucial. Keep up the energy and spirits of the team. Very interesting to watch your example.
I rarely comment on here but this video is so raw and real I’m so impressed by the team’s openness and showing vulnerability to each other. I feel like there’s a genuine connection between you guys and I even did the breathing exercise in the beginning. It goes to show that creating a safe space is the foundation to building a strong team. Thank you Team Sinek for sharing your huddle with us.
Lots of great takeaways. Had to furlough 3 of my team members and was forced to hire some freelancers from the Philippines to save on labor costs. I’m running my first weekly all hands meeting where my w2 staff is out numbered by our freelancers (team of 15, 5 w2, 10 freelancers) tomorrow to preserve our close knit culture, improve morale and foster communication and trust with our new team members. This video is showing me that it’s possible to make remote teams work whether or not we’re in the same building, city or continent. Thanks guys.
Thank for sharing your “Huddle”. I want to get started with my teachers, as we navigate this new normal for our students and families. We have to remember to take care of each other, also.
Thank you for letting us SEE this in action! Taking this to my company today. You change the world friends!
I also conduct weekly calibration with my team (remotely) but I realized that it's always serious so last year since the pandemic I started to start our huddle with a game. It's so fun and the team is always looking forward to what the game would be for the week. I thought it will not work but they love it, we laugh a lot.
This is super timely, super valuable. I love how Simon is completely present but not driving. Very inspiring. All the best from Tokyo.
I was thinking the same - true leadership
He is not being "the star". Lovely that the group has been together for 10 years.
Yes, he is letting everyone shine and he is not playing favorites by giving certain people the most floor time.
I am starting a taxi company here in Maine and I am putting this together by way of Simon's videos and this huddle as you call it this is really inspiring because even though I'm starting out when car me as a driver I plan on moving in taking over and I will do that. But you guys have all participated together so we think it's Simon but I'll tell you something you guys are a hell of a team and I just learned that with the past video that I saw and I can't remember your name a young man but I want to thank you for reaching out
Wonderful team of people! Thank you for giving us an inside look.
I love this! Deep down in my heart I've been looking for a power team, I have 13 persons in a group, but the mindset have been of a follower's mindset, like I am a leader and I want to be a great one at that but I also don't want to be the one to tell people what to do, even though I tell them my vision, it's like I'm suppose to do all the work and then tell them what to do and thats the time they would do. I am sooooo depressed because of that. But this is an awesome idea and I am definitely going to try this!
Thank you Simon!
What a wonderful example of leaders coming together to fill each other's pitchers so they can pour into others. Thank you for sharing this process with others in this time of need!
DEAR FRIENDS.....Your huddle, is really cool! Thank you for sharing. What a wonderful way to connect with each other. I get the feeling that you are more than just a group of people working for a company, you are friends from the heart, who really care about each other. You are the essence of a true family! More companies should embrace this type of practice. So many larger companies will say, "Well that's really nice but, it's not practical or it's too hard to get everyone together." BLAH, BLAH, BLAH! Yet, all of you are successful at it. I feel that comments like "it's too hard" or whatever, are just an excuse for not trying hard enough to put in the effort. Many times people get lost in these larger companies and feel disconnected. They feel like a number and that they and their opinions don't really matter. That they're just there taking up space. These kinds of feelings cause LOTS OF DISCOURAGEMENT and FRUSTRATION and ultimately brings company moral down. I think the ultimate goal in making a company stronger, is by first making the people, who work in it, stronger. YOU DO THAT, BY VALIDATING THEM. If you focus on your interactions with your people and show them that you really care about them, not just as an employee, but as a real person, those same people will give their loyalty and their fighting spirit to the company. No one wants to let down the team, because when you let down the team, you ultimately let down the company. I believe, if the team really wants to make a change, THEY WILL DO EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER, TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. It doesn't matter how big or small of a company you are. All the more reason to embrace it and do it. Could you imagine how AWESOME that would be, if every company in America got on board with this idea?? Just think? ALL OF OUR COMPANIES NATIONWIDE, working together to make our nation strong again, like we were years ago. WE COULD TAKE ON THE WORLD.
Tammy Lynn Schulz. 😊👍❤🇺🇸
This is awesome man, HIGH FIVE to you team. I would like to high five to everyone because I now feel like I'm part of the team and thanks for the brilliant idea man. Peace
Wow. This is amazing
! What great culture look like!
I feel more connected to these people than my own team
I enjoy this talk and work my way to include into the team. Language is a barrier because English is not our mother language, yet we'll work through it somehow. Thank you for sharing this. Greetings from Indonesia
This was insightful...Found this while doing my research on how to connect better remotely. Thank you, guys. Well worth the 16min13secs
thanks for putting this, lot of learning from this short meeting
So helpful thank you! My team is new to this and here are the makings of our future! This remote format is the new normal and the pointers here will support our work! 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for the inside look, definitely going to utilise some of your ideas (if you don't mind). Simon I am probably one of your biggest fans in SA and now I also love your team.
A BIG thank you for sharing yourselves with all of us! You encouraged me today!
Proud to be a member of such a great team, at AMF in Richmond...We do a small Engineering Huddle every AM as a quick check-in....as we're transitioning to remote work, I see this as a helpful tool to assure our focus and energy is directed in the most effective direction...especially considering the distractions taking place around us! Thanks, Simon!!
I fully enjoyed that! I will suggest such a call at my work. I will contact my supervisor, whom I’ve already told about Simons work, and have her set it up. I work at The Royal Danish Theatre in the costume department and we are 16 people total in that department. I think we will benefit highly from such a call. Thank you guys!! Connection and community ☀️🌎🙏🏼
Hi dears! Thank you for sharing this with us. I personally love the principles on which Simon works and lives by and how he and his team share them. Today I am having a team meeting and I intend to propose this approach of building the trust within a team to my manager and my colleagues as we are quite new in this completely remote work. Cheers to all of you and keep up the good work! Sending love to all of you.
This is great, we are all working from home as well and doing daily check-ins with our teams. It's going to be really important in this landscape to have some sort of human contact with our peers and family away from home.
This is an awesome video! I've passed it on to many of my co-workers and managers! Thank you!!
Great idea and example. Immediately shared with my team and I am sure we will implement. Thanks for sharing!
loved it! kudos from South Africa, shared this with my team and would love to see their comments.... xx
Thanks for the inside scoop! Will definitely take some of these nuggets (e.g. high fives, timed shares, and being fully present) into my remote meetings. Question for anyone with experience: What have you found to be the ideal number of participants for remote meetings? And also meeting length?
Thanks for sharing. I’m glad you also had technical gremlins like the rest of us!
thank you guys for sharing your process. I've just started doing this virtual teaming thing with my team. coz of COVID19 quarantine. thanks you Mr. SInek & team for sharing this.
Thank you for this sneak peak into your Huddle!!! Awesome stuff!
Amazing support and really inspiring small things that we can implement to lead our teams in a meaningful way. Thank you guys.
Totally agree with this need to have human moments together in distributed teams. I’m wondering what additional sensitivity is needed for multicultural teams in such cases. People from different cultural groups have different preferences for ‘public’ positive recognition or emotional transparency. Inclusiveness also means adapting to each other’s personal style. This format may work in the US but while the need for appreciation is universal how it is implemented (appropriately) changes across cultural contexts.
Thank you for sharing! I will keep this in mind for the uncertain future we are facing.
Wow this was super powerful. 🙏 From the breathing/grounding to the openness of the team members sharing, you can see the very positive result of creating a trusting environment (even if it is virtual). Congrats and keep up the great work 👏
Thank you so much for sharing, Simon. That's a good example we can use. I also liked the fact that you are present but not leading the Huddle, and that everyone has a limited time to talk, share and give the floor to the other as friends, mentioning the name of who's next. Well organized and feeling the Trust & servant leadership in the air👌 I'm used to Skype and Zoom. I'd like to know if there are other apps you can recommend. Thank you
Great idea, going to try it out with my team right away. Q: any particular time of day the huddle works best? Start your day with it, or wait for the mid-afternoon lull to help get over the hump?
Thanks for putting this out there and thank you for sharing such insight. Great team ethos -
Thanks for sharing, really inspirering how to be connected while working remotedly
Love this!
Thanks for just sharing this! You rock!
Thanks for sharing your process. Very helpful!
thank you for sharing. It helps me com up with the idea for my company
Awesome stuff, thanks for sharing that with the world!! Keep up the great work!!
So timely! Thank you for modeling built trust 🙏🏼👥✔
Just sent this to leaders/ souls I care about, on a Friday night no less.
As part of an HR team, I've requested that the idea and tips can be shared in our new mental health newsletter.
Thanks for sharing all of that knowledge with us.
Thanks for this!, always surprised!!!! rebooth, love to know teams like exists not only in my mind!.Hope this coronavirus state empower many more changes and transformation in society , teams and way of doing things, we all need a new way , go forward, not back. cheers from Chile.
This was. Amazing. Thank you so much for sharing.
Love this, thank you.
So great to see this modeled!
Thank you for sharing this one, high 5 to the entire team!!!
Great stuff - I haven't realized Simon's team is that big :) Really like the spirit of their huddle :)
this is great, can you share the 2 page growth and performance plan?
Amazing! Thank you for sharing! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️
Thanks for the very helpful video! Your conferencing software worked flawlessly. Can you share the name of the conferencing software you use? Again, thanks!
Zoom. Zoom works great.
Hey Simon. Love this concept. Quick question, proper Huddle etiquette, do you have everyone mute during the call until it’s their time to talk?
Also are there any other etiquette rules you have for these calls?
We do coffee together every morning and also have lunch dates everyday, trying to keep the way it was before the quarantine. Everyone who feels like joining of course.
So we can go on a date?
0) Thanks to the Remote Team
1) movement suggestion = Surya Namaskaram
Suffering is alone, Struggling is together!
Thanks to the Sinek team for sharing. What meeting program are you using?
Would love to see that two page review process.
Toastmaster setup XD Love it :D
I love this and I will apply to my team, can I share with you the result after that?
Awesome😊👌
I’m inspired, as ever with Simon’s work. But I imagine this is wooden because this team knew it would be published. The primary issue I see with this is that it is not interactive. A series of broadcasters is NOT social interaction. And that is the challenge for us. 1). Have sessions like this. 2). Get the banter going, the back and forth. Sometimes that is easier in a chat room than a VC.
Do you think there could be benefits to the lack of back and forth? It seemed that it was perhaps more important to listen than to say anything in return, hence why people were simply putting the thumbs up in reply rather than saying anything in response. It seems likely that the things that were said in this huddle were discussed after the call in smaller groups.
Everyone in the meeting is participating. Most of the time we are talking into blue screens. How do you get everyone to turn on their video feed?
Thank you for sharing! Question: what platform are you all using? Would love to try something other than Zoom.
I'm curious about other examples of the Question of the Week in a usual week for your team.
Well, being honest, for the first couple of minutes it felt like "corporate cringe", however, eventually loved it at the end. Thanks for sharing; might try to convince my boss to do something similar or something.
What platform are you meeting on? I like seeing all the faces at once rather that isolated screens.
Sorry I missed it. Inspire on 🙌
Thank you for sharing :-)
Thank you for sharing! I'd love to be part of this awesome team! xo
I think local teams would benefit equally from such meetings.
Do you guys use Skype? If not, what other comm app do you use? Been working remotely from home for a week but one challenge I faced is that my routine schedule extended very substantially. Being a banker I accept there was a lot to cope with passing on digested info to clients, but it looks this Covid-19 crisis may extend into the coming weeks, any tip/advice of basic errors to avoid appreciated. Cheers 🦠🦠🦠
"we lost you at zinc"😂
Look at the duality & see how Simon was always only showing us singularity.
🤔 Pardon the ignorance, but what software are you guys using to conference call?
A well distributed team you have there 😊
I also want to know.
J Alvi they are using ZOOM
First, and want to say something, i love you sinek
How does one become a member of this team?
Can anybody telll me what this story gives idea ?
if you don't know how to start that kind of call try with: hey, anyone knows were to buy a toilet paper?
appoint your timekeeper ahead
Does this actually help build trust I wonder... everyone seems to be quite formal... all of these seem very artificial
If the team is connected, it will show in their results. Could be high output with little burnout. And be able to work together for a long period of time.
This was my thought too. I don't think I would react well to this and would become disengaged quickly.
This is what I want with my team, they are not interested. 😢 I need it so Im doing something like with my close friends. {my team is deaf, and I get it 😢 but still feel Sad and block}
Is there no one in the team from outside the country?
For question of the week, what are you usually trying to accomplish with each other with this? In this call your answers are for the audience but it’s not as obvious for each other.
I want to say its cheesy or at least that is initial instinct but i do see the value - i see the challenge is the cultural piece to get people to talk and take it seriously.
This idea is cool but it feels very awkward, specially with people all just sitting there XD does there need to be music or something?
Me i am working from my home receiving emails and etc..
I am the "pen chewing" guy. Didn't utter a single word
Is a 2-minute "check-in" really the time for an unsolicited lecture on nutrition?
Why is it not a standing rule that you don't send bleeding patients home?
The alleged professional medical community have some very stupid policies.
Simon - love u man for many years and i believe in your stuff.. but you could use an Asian in your group. :)
If my group ever does this I'm leaving the company.
Why tho
Looks like a cult.
I'd like to develop trust in my teammates without having to listen to their eating and health advice and giving forced virtual high fives. Respect for your coworkers and the work they do and trust in their ability and willingness to do it is paramount, sharing some jokes and good nature is also positive.
Actively encouraging the sharing of emotions and family matters is unprofessional and in my opinion, manipulative. You are paying employees for their skills, their experience and their time, not their emotions. By making your team "a family" and encouraging home-life emotional expression you are making them dependent on you as a source of comfort. You are an employer, not a psychotherapist.
that was boring and not useful ... what's the point to talk about everything else except work during a conference call ? waste of time
Explained in the 2nd minute