How to bring an international team together
As a startup business, there will be a lot of things that you have to get right.
If your teams are stretched across the world, and you have one team in one country and another team somewhere completely different, then you may be wondering how you’re going to bring everybody together.
It’s not the easiest thing to do to train a team across to different places. However once you do it, you can ensure that everybody gets to know each other in the best possible way.
Taking the time to train your staff is important, and companies like ClearBorder can really help you to do that. If you have an international team, you should get excited – the collaboration is so much more fun.
Below, we have put together some of the best ways that you can bring an international team together and help everybody to integrate and get to know one another. Let’s take a closer look.
● Book an international meal. You can fly everybody in, and make a real meal out of things.
Every person in the office brings one dish or drink of the place they cool home, and everybody joins in the party of eating together. It’s like a potluck dinner but with international reach.
Nothing brings people together the way food can, and the same will be said for the business that you have right now.
● Online competitions. Even when your business is stretched across the globe you can still have fun with an online competition.
Get everybody involved in an event that’s hosted on zoom or on teams, and make sure that your prices are relevant from country to country.
It can be so much fun to bring everybody together this way, and you will find that everybody will want to get involved so that they can get to know their colleagues from across the world.
● International training. This may not sound as fun as the other options, the training your team internationally is really going to help you all sleep together properly.
You can fly your team out to another country, or fly them to you, either way make sure that you book an excellent trainer to help bring everybody together as you learn something new.
● Create a buddy system. Your host team in your home country is going to be what we call the originals. You can then ensure that you have every new employee from a different part of the world buddy up with one of your originals.
They can work together across time zones, and they can go through the same training, and they can feel like they have somebody to ask for help from whenever they need to.
The system is also going to allow people to get to know each other on a personal level, which is something that you should want to achieve if you want your people to work together well.
It’s not always easy to bring people together when they work on opposite sides of the world, but it doesn’t mean it’s impossible. Respect the time zones and train everybody the same way and you can build a very comfortable team.
