21st Century Work Life - Remote Working, Virtual Teams And Flexible Working

These are some of the questions we didn't get to answer during a recent webinar on Leading Remote Teams.  How do you cope with different cultures when working remotely - eg. a team I'm working with has people in Germany, Switzerland and India and can have a clash of cultures which are difficult to express remotely. What about cultures reluctant/not familiar sharing about their opinions on private/professional stuff? How do I manage the time different in collaborating with a virtual working in diff time zones? Sometimes, outcomes don't come out as planned and then things start getting quite negative, how can we build trust among remote team members? How can a manager develop trust and make employees feel trust too? (managers don't know whether the members are slacking or work really hard yet get stuck) Can you talk about HOW teams can "bump into each other" when working remotely across many locations? My insight from this is that there are a lot different type communication needs: performance review, informal,