WLP243 Motivation and Visible Teamwork in Remote Teams

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another solo show from <a href= "https://virtualnotdistant.com" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">Virtual Not Distant</a> Managing Director Pilar Orti, completing an unofficial miniseries around the concept of</span> <a href= "https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/blog/hello-visible-teamwork"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> visible teamwork</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. P</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">lease see full shownotes for this and all our podcast episodes at <a href= "https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts">https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts.</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visible teamwork is a set of practices which include using technology to make our work and ourselves manifest in our remote teams - staying connected, as well as collaborating. So we need to understand what drive us to do our work in the first place: our motivations, for being part of a team and working toward common goals.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deci and Ryan’s definition of intrinsic motivation comes from the positive position that we all want to do our best, in work and in life, but the environment gets in the way of that. It follows that we should assume positive intent in others too, so that’s a good place to start.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They define the components of intrinsic motivation as autonomy, competence, and relatedness (see also Daniel Pink’s ‘Drive’ too, though he uses mastery and purpose instead of competence and relatedness).</span></p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">5.23 Autonomy</span></h2> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Having a choice of where to work from feeds autonomy, so it’s easy to conclude that ‘remote = better’.  But right now external circumstances may constrain that, as may the structures of large organisations trying to change the way they move forward in a safe and hybrid way. Choosing how and when to do the work matters too, and even who we do it with - so creating c