Working Together…When Apart – WSJ.com
June 19, 2007 by Jason Montero · Leave a Comment
Working Together…When Apart – WSJ.com
Phil and I have been wood-shedding as of late, releasing updated versions of our Tipbooks, creating 3 new Virtual Training CDs, and conducting a number of Virtual Team Workshops youcanworkfromanywhere.com/store
When I saw this Wall Street Journal article I wanted to share it on the blog because it is a perfect distillation of the key issues and ideas in which we have been immersed.
Although each virtual team situation has unique qualities, there are some fundamental challenges that appear repeatedly – these are highlighted in this excellent article by Lynda Gratton along with 10 steps that any team can take to collaborate more effectively across distance.
In our workshops we often stress the importance of fostering informal communication, and many times organizations are surprised by this (or even dismiss the idea) because it is an area they have given little or no thought. I’d like to point out that the first step Ms. Gratton details relates to informal communication…
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.
Web Worker Daily – Teams Across Timezones
Speaking at the 2006 Document and Training Conference in Boston
October 4, 2006 by Phil Montero · Leave a Comment
Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking at the Management Summit of the 2006 Documentation and Training conference in Boston. The conference centers around knowledge management, repurposing content, and the best ways to centralize and share information among knowledge workers, customers, and clients.
My presentation was on how to create Effective Virtual Teams. I shared many of the concepts and tools of The Anywhere Office we discuss in this blog and on the radio show regarding information, communcation, and collaboration.
I met some really nice people and got a peak at some new digital document technology coming out from a variety of vendors. Very interesting.
TAO Podcast – Virtual Team Tips
August 20, 2006 by Jason Montero · 8 Comments
This episode contains the Top 5 Tips segment from last week’s radio show. We discuss tools and strategies for virtual team success.
Visit www.TheAnywhereOffice.com and click archives to listen to the complete show. While you are there be sure to visit our blog and post comments and feedback as well.
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