About Francis Norman
Combining over thirty years of experience working within and managing co-located and virtual project teams with his ongoing PhD research into virtual teams communications, Francis is passionate about sharing his knowledge and experience.
I am incredibly excited to have had my research extensively quoted in an excellent article "The tyranny of distance" published in the May and June 2014 edition of "Project Manager"...
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Marginalisation is an issue which reaches across much of modern society, individuals and groups are intentionally or unintentionally excluded from discussions or participation for any number of reasons. In workplaces...
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Communicating with peers, managers and subordinates in virtual or distributed team environments is a challenging area to understand. But, with some thought and planning, communicating with those you can't see...
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The development of the modern, more advanced, lower cost and faster forms of electronic communication that enabled organisations to move toward the use of virtual teams, has, I believe also...
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There are many reasons to engage a consultant to work with establishing and maintaining your virtual teams. The most common reasons being that the managers and leaders running virtual teams...
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Most organisations embark on a virtual team approach to their work for a combination of the following reasons; reducing costs by using personnel from lower cost locations, accessing skills not readily...
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With so many different communication media available and so many ways to communicate within and between virtual teams, it is very important to select the most appropriate tools for the...
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Often when discussing virtual teams and work sharing with clients and partners the conversation seems to start by hinging around technology, there is such a high focus on such things...
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When planning how a virtual team is to function, something that is often overlooked is the level of complexity and interaction required between virtual teammates. Understanding complexity in virtual teamwork...
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Some of the best and worst virtual teams I have encountered could be classified by the levels of trust between team members. Those with high levels of implicit and explicit...
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