1. 💙 Be Kind
  2. 🌶️  Be Candor
  3. 🤝 Assume Best Intentions
  4. 📬 Prioritize Async
  5. 🚆 Be Proactive with Pain Points
  6. 🧠 Share Thought Process Not Conclusions
  7. ⚽ Speak in Terms of We

💙 Be Kind

Kindness is the foundation of collaboration and makes people feel valued.

🌶️ Be Candor

Candor is the foundation to effective communication and continuous improvement. 💙 Kindness and 🌶️ Candor can coexist.

🤝 Assume Best Intentions

Remote communication comes with the challenge of missing non-verbal cues, making it harder to understand emotional nuances. Maintaining a happy tone and assume the best intentions in others helps foster positive collaboration vibes.

📬 Prioritize Async

Prioritize asynchronous communication and collaboration, whenever possible. Document everything for the others and for the future. Minimize forced context switching, respect deep focus and flow states, and respect the team’s valuable time. Use the appropriate communication tools for the appropriate purpose.

🤕 Be Proactive with Pain Points

Call out pains early on. Treeview will do everything possible to resolve them. If we don’t know about them, we can’t fix them. Address conflicts early. The longer we wait, the more they fester.

Speak up if we think we can do things better.

🧠 Share Thought Process Not Conclusions

When sharing important decisions, always include the thought process behind how you reached those conclusions. Great decisions are the outcomes of great thought processes. Sharing the rationale allows others and oneself to evaluate the quality of the decision itself.

⚽ Speak in Terms of We

Encourage a sense of team collaboration by framing discussions and decisions in terms of “we” rather than “I” or “you.” Collaborative language emphasizes teamwork and shared ownership, creating a stronger team spirit and mutual accountability within the team.


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