For anyone working in a team based project environment, be it co-located or virtual, single or multi cultural, developing a comprehensive communication toolkit, one comprising different communication styles and skills,... read more →
Leading a team is hard. Leading a virtual team is even harder. Leading a virtual team, where members are spread across multiple geographic locations, adds additional management complexity including; managing across time... read more →
Love them or hate them, teleconferences are a part of the modern business landscape. Barely a week, or for some barely a day passes without them joining a teleconference. Often, upwards... read more →
On the surface, the issue of language in virtual teams can seem like a relatively simple one to deal with, for many managers it is a case of nominating a common... read more →
Communication styles, by which I mean the individual's preferred or default manner of communicating, can have a great influence on their ability to be effective in communicating in virtual team... read more →
Continuing the discussions of cultural diversity in virtual teams, the cultural concept of uncertainty avoidance is that each regional or national group has a level of uncertainty they expect in... read more →
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... read more →