After WHO declared Covid-19 a pandemic, more and more organizations are asking their people to work from home. Working remotely is an attractive proposition if you don’t do it often and you may relish the variety. But it quickly becomes apparent that performing effectively from a remote environment requires certain resources and skills. No matter how comfortable your sofa is, …
How to build trust when you can’t meet in person.
My previous article in this series dealt with how to communicate and co-ordinate effectively in a virtual team. Here we look at how to build trust when you can’t meet in person. One of the problems of virtual teams is that communication tends to become more formalised: you book calls or virtual meetings at a certain time for a certain …
How to communicate and co-ordinate effectively in a virtual team
The previous article in this series looked at how to motivate your virtual team and manage performance from a distance. This article looks at how to communicate and co-ordinate effectively in a virtual team. In a team where you rarely (or never) meet in-person and mostly communicate via technology, communication has to be more explicit. Things that would be picked up by …
How to motivate your virtual team and manage performance from a distance.
The first article in this series provided 4 tactics to bond your virtual team. This one looks at how to motivate your virtual team and manage performance from a distance. Most crucially, the Leader of a virtual team needs to recognise how important they are in creating a virtual team that is bonded and high-functioning. Because virtual team members have less …