Work more effectively on a virtual team. Posted on by Panurgy 6 ways to work more effectively on a virtual team used with permission from Microsoft at Work Working on a virtual team can be a challenge.
Communications on global teams, with team members in different time zones, can be difficult. Managing remote teams and keeping track of where people store critical information can be tiresome. Here are some suggestions to help with virtual team management and to help your team work more effectively. 1. Use instant messaging (also known as IM or chat) to get quick answers or opinions from your teammates.
Use video chat to connect visually. If your company uses Microsoft Lync 2010, the new unified communications platform from Microsoft, you can make use of its powerful instant messaging features without leaving your corporate intranet. 2. You can take notes during a meeting using a digital whiteboard in Office Live Meeting. 3. 4. Set up a website for everyone on your team to share the materials you’re working on. 5. Strategy in a World of Constant Change - Roger Martin. By Roger Martin | 1:00 PM February 3, 2014 Am I the only person to be getting a bit weary of hearing it repeatedly asserted that we’re living in a world of constant, accelerating change?
That competitive advantages are becoming ever more transient and that the secret to survival will be to the ability to transform on a dime? Otherwise, what happened to Tom Tom will happen to you. Please! Let me share a fun clip with you, sent to me the other day my former colleague Jonathan Rotenberg, founder of the Boston Computer Society. The moment I loved most was during the Q&A when an older gentleman asked Jobs a challenging question about the mouse as user interface technology: did it really compare favorably to the traditional keystroke approach? The really interesting thing about the gentleman’s question was the fact that it was asked 19 years after the mouse was shown to be a definitively superior graphical user interface at Xerox PARC in 1965.
Advantage is neither transitory nor immortal. Develop Strategic Thinkers Throughout Your Organization - Robert Kabacoff. By Robert Kabacoff | 9:00 AM February 7, 2014 In study after study, strategic thinkers are found to be among the most highly effective leaders.
And while there is an abundance of courses, books, articles and opinions on the process of strategic planning, the focus is typically on an isolated process that might happen once or twice per year. In contrast, a true strategic leader thinks and acts strategically every day. So is there a way to encourage routine strategic thinking throughout the organization? I would say yes – and that it’s the most important thing you can do as a leader. We found that a strategic approach to leadership was, on average, 10 times more important to the perception of effectiveness than other behaviors studied. Strategic leaders take a broad, long-range approach to problem-solving and decision-making that involves objective analysis, thinking ahead, and planning.
So how can organizations develop strategic leaders? To be sure, it’s not an easy task.