I am absolutely delighted to let you know that Ulfire will be starting to deliver the Responding to Organisational Complexity course developed by the International Centre for Complex Project Management... read more →
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... read more →
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... read more →
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... read more →
Often, during the process of initiating new projects, it seems that agreed budgets come under pressure. This occurs particularly when the newly appointed project manager and client are reviewing where... read more →
In an earlier article I discussed the different levels of support and training offered by organisations to their people when deploying them onto international projects, either as expat's, or as home... read more →
Over the years, I have met a number of people who, usually after a few years of living and working overseas, decide either consciously or subconsciously that an overseas location is more... read more →
Not for profit organisations operating across multiple locations face many of the same challenges a for profit organisation would, except they generally lack the funding and dedicated personnel to support... read more →
The most common form of synchronous communication available and used by virtual teams everywhere is the conference call, often referred to as the teleconference though for the purposes of this... read more →
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... read more →