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.
In the simplest of forms of human communications, two individuals with similar cultural and demographic views and values, who speak the same language and have similar levels of communication skills...
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Everyone working in any form of project leadership role will receive dozens through to hundreds of emails daily. Some of these will be relatively anonymous distributions of project statistics, broadcast...
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I am really excited to say that the energy resources sector competitiveness plan developed and published by National Energy Resources Australia (NERA) was been released on 22nd February. For the...
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With so much interest in the opportunities afforded by virtual teams and international execution, one big question is just why do company's and individuals undertake projects using multinational or international...
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As a consultant who spends a lot of time working on virtual team challenges of engineering companies, the engineering project skills for the future is often on my mind. The...
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Where are the future international project communicators coming from? Where are they developing right now? and, How can their development be supported and facilitated so that there are enough of...
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Probably the most common way international projects develop their communications plans is through the simple trial and error of starting a project with an international, virtual team component with no...
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I seem to have had a few conversations with clients recently on the need for personal motivation as a driving force to succeed in international communications. By motivation I am referring...
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I have been thinking for a while now about where we find the role models for our future leaders, you know who I mean, the figures we recommend aspiring leaders model...
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We are all the same... only different. How many times on your project do you hear conversations of proclamations from team members that include something along the lines of "Why...
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