Pilar talks to Paul Thoresen about developing teams, trust, and using surveys in organisations. Visit www.virtualnotdistant.com for information on our training, coaching and consultancy services. Paul on Twitter https://twitter.com/surveyguy2 Paul on Medium https://medium.com/@SurveyGuy2

Paul talks about what he learned during his attendance to the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology' conference in Orlando. http://www.siop.org/conferences/17con/

• The importance of change management for organisational psychology professionals, most of what we introduce in organisations is going to involve change.

• Experimenting vs piloting; they're different things.

Look for Episode 9 of the Evidence Talks podcast with Paul http://www.futureworkcentre.com/what-we-do/education/evidencetalks/

• There's a lot of research at the moment around teams. Paul recommends us to check out the work of Suzanne Bell https://twitter.com/TeamsLab

Teams and groups; not everyone forms a team and that's ok!

Sentiment analysis.

• The importance of propensity to trust and swift trust.

(Check out episode 117 in this podcast, A Question of Trust and the blog post https://virtualteamtalk.com/2016/11/05/trust-in-teams-1/ )

How we can show we have integrity, competence and benevolent in virtual teams?

Paul mentions this article from Science for Work:

Teams Going Virtual: Why Focusing on Trust Matters http://scienceforwork.com/blog/virtual-teams-trust/

• Paul explains the Rocket Model. http://www.therocketmodel.com/

To create strong teams, you need the processes around it.

Dissecting the team.

• Using surveys in organisations. "Survey readiness checklist"

• Dialogic OD

• Paul's work. Social media as a support mechanism for freelancers.

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