Notes from Jessica Lipnack on Virtual Teams and the Networked Organization
March 9, 2007 by Phil Montero · 1 Comment
I came across this recent blog post with notes from a recent talk given by Jessica Lipnack, author of several books on virtual teams and CEO of Netage. She makes some wonderful observations about strategies for keeping virtual teams connected and some of the typical challenges.
Definitely worth a read . . .
Notes from Jessica Lipnack on Virtual Teams and the Networked Organization
Teams Across Timezones
March 7, 2007 by Phil Montero · Leave a Comment
There are many challenges when trying to manage or work on a cross-cultural virtual team. While some of these deal with language or differences in expressions, a more base issue is dealing with time. While there are a variety of tools that can be used for rich asynchronous communication and collaboration, there will be times when you want to have a live conference call or webconference to bring everyone together in real time.
When working with a global or wold-wide team it can be difficult to find a time that works for everyone on your team. I came across this post on the Web Worker Daily blog that offers some good tips and suggestions for dealing with timezone differences.
