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 are often inexperienced with the approach, the management is tasked with and generally focussed on the tactical day to day... read more →
May
03
Apr
25
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 available in their principle location or working to maintain a workload balance across a global organisation by sharing work between... read more →
Apr
13
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 situation. For virtual teams located in the same time zone, or where the separation between time zones is small, it... read more →
Mar
27
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 as the choice of video conference platform, what tools can be used for instant messaging, whether broadly available, and largely... read more →
Mar
22
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 requires the organisation as a whole to analyse how interdependent the work to be performed by the virtual team is,... read more →
Feb
23
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 trust have typically been the most effective and efficient, those with broken trust between the members have typically been some... read more →
Feb
16
The advent of high quality office video conference technology at an affordable price has enabled many organisations to install varying levels of conference suites into their facilities for use by their virtual teams. For many organisations, this equipment is installed into conference rooms and board rooms allowing staff in remote... read more →
Feb
08
Quite frequently, both in my research and in a number of discussions with leaders and members of virtual teams I hear the term work share used. The term work share is often used as an interchangeable term for virtual teams and always in the same context. I would suggest that... read more →
Jan
24
Quite some time ago, I started to think about how best to help senior and generally very busy managers improve their communications abilities when running or working in virtual team environments. These leaders usually come from a world where they are assumed to know everything, yet never have the time to... read more →