Building Trust in a Global Team

The leadership skills of senior executives are being tested when it comes to creating cohesion and direction in regional or global teams. Criticaleye reports on how to get it right

Featuring Comments From:

Simon Constance, Partner, People Advisory Services, EY

What good global team leaders excel at is producing a compelling narrative that binds everyone together.

Michael Crompton, General Manager – Asia, Criticaleye

The hardest part lies in creating a sense of everybody striving towards a common goal, while understanding that each market will have a different way of getting the job done.

James Hallatt, Senior Vice President – Oral Health Category, GSK

Do not turn your global headquarters into an ivory tower. Don’t completely cut yourself off from the realities that your employees are facing on the ground in different countries.

Devyani Vaishampayan, Founder, HR TECH Partnership

If your business strategy involves different global markets, then you need to be thinking about what level of innovation each market will individually require from a local team.

Mark Whitby, NED, TotalMobile

We dealt with a perceived lack of empowerment locally by devolving accountability to the appropriate level within the organisation, and then reminding people that this comes with responsibility.

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