Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Remote Teams Aren’t Broken—Your Meetings Are | GrowthAssistant (Podcast 480)

7 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Remote teams struggle with meeting overload and weak connections, not because they're broken but because meetings aren't intentional. Cut unnecessary ones, use faster communication channels, and run multiple team off-sites yearly. One company took their Philippines team to a nice hotel in March, mixing work with fun.

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I think remote work is definitely a challenge. Sometimes allows you to hire fast and scale faster. But it has its drawbacks for sure. One thing that can be difficult is like turn into having a meeting culture, which I'm sure like a lot of people can empathize with. You feel like you can't get anything done. What we've tried to do is reduce meetings as much as possible or make them very intentional and then also encourage like quicker forms of communication. Another thing is kind of the morale aspect. People building personal connections with each other. It happens for sure in remote work, but it obviously takes longer for the U.S. team. We do several like team off sites a year and I think that helps a lot. We have our, our businessy agenda, just hanging out and having people get to know each other. Like we went to Epcot as a company in January and that was super fun. We also get the whole like Philippines team together. They all got together in March and they had a productive agenda, but also they just had fun activities around that, staying at a nice hotel. So I that helps as well.