Virtual Team Tips: 7 Ways Youre Setting Your Virtual Team Up for Failure
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Virtual teams require solid planning to be effective. We share 7 key factors in ensuring your virtual teams are successful. Check out these productivity and virtual team tips.
Transcript of Virtual Team Tips: 7 Ways Youre Setting Your Virtual Team Up for Failure
Tip: Virtual teams work better
with some 1:1 time#1 They’re all virtual,all the time.
#2 They’re a team in name only.
Tip:Team building is even more
important for virtual teams. Build it into your meeting agendas.
#3 It’s one long conference call after another.
Tip: Video conferences drive
more attendee engagement than conference calls.
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#4 You require everyone to keep the same o�ce hours, regardless of location or position.
Tip: Let your virtual team
members adjust their work hours to their energy flow and outside of work responsibilities
for increased productivity.
#5 You don’t have a sharedvirtual “water cooler”.
Tip: Use an online communication tool
that enables the entire team to share conversation and ideas--
regardless of when/where inspiration strikes.
Brian: I think we should do a video instead of a poster.
Leah: Yes, we can use the music we downloaded.
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#6 File sharing is done through email.
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Tip: Centralize the team’s key
documents and other files in a shared online folder to avoid version control and mailbox
overflow.
#7 In fact, email is your primary project management tool.
Tip: Email is great for 1:1
communication, but doesn’t match the capabilities of a collaboration and project management platform.
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