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Related: ECIP6 Project Management Tips To Keep Your Virtual Team On Track Millions of words have been written on how to handle a physical project with a physical team. Heck, if you wanted to read them all, you’d hardly have time to actually run your team! The area that has received less attention is on how to run a digital team. The thing is, that’s an important area as more and more teams are no longer located in the same space. Instead, they might be in different places, different countries and different time zones.
The Differentiated Instruction Book of Lists Yesterday, I was at a meeting where a typical “mexican stand-off” began to take place. One group wanted a group of teachers to receive professional development for a technology only a small portion of them had access to, and were insisting the PD had to take place first; in the mean time, the teacher-learners were saying, quite reasonably, that they weren’t eager to take a course for something they wouldn’t have an opportunity to implement, and if it was eventually implemented, the knowledge they acquired in the PD would be long enough ago to make it useless and it would need to be redone. These sorts of arguments take place all the time. Each side has it’s points that are perfectly reasonable on the face.
Virtual Leadership - Essential Skills for Managing Remote Teams November 04, 2020 - Dom Barnard - 8 min read The current global situation has accelerated the trend towards remote working, however many businesses and leaders are struggling to adapt to this new way of life. In addition, remote collaboration will continue for the foreseeable future, with Gartner reporting that 74% of companies plan to shift some of their employees to remote working permanently after COVID-19. Companies such as Shopify, Slack, Square, Twitter and Google have already announced plans for long term or permanent remote working, with more companies joining the list each month. In this article, we look at the importance of virtual leadership in these uncertain times, as well as essential skills a virtual leader should have to manage remote teams. What is virtual leadership?
Support Blogging! - Links to School Bloggers The Top 100 Bloggers of 2013: Ten Niches, Ten Bloggers! Welcome to this compilation of the top 100 bloggers of 2013! I’m going to go through ten separate categories and take a quick look at all the best and brightest from those markets. Ranging from health and fitness to SEO and internet marketing, there’s a lot of fantastic bloggers. This list won’t be the be-all and end-all of the ultimate blogging enthusiasts, but it will feature many bloggers who have stood out and are pretty recognisable in their respective niches. So without further ado, let’s dive right in!
App Monetization: 6 Bankable Business Models That Help Mobile Apps Make Money - Localytics Why are you building an app? Yes, you want to cultivate loyalty, create company awareness, gain new mobile customers, provide a benefit, and more. Often, mobile apps are another marketing channel for your brand and after everything you’ve put into getting it launched, you also expect it to be a solid source of revenue. Many people enter the mobile arena because they’ve become infatuated with the billion-dollar success of breakout apps like WhatsApp, Vine, and Instagram. How we will learn MindShift explores the future of learning in all its dimensions. We examine how learning is being affected by technology, discoveries about the brain, poverty, inequities, mindfulness, agency, social and emotional learning, assessments, game-based learning and music, among many other topics. We report on shifts in how educators teach as they apply innovative ideas to help students learn, while meeting the rigorous demands of their standards. MindShift has a unique audience of educators, parents, policy makers and life-long learners who engage in meaningful dialogue with one another on our sites. We try to keep our passionate audience informed on multiple platforms with reporting from us and trusted sources in education. Stay up-to-date and join in on the discussions on our site, podcast, Facebook, Twitter and our email newsletter.
Why building communication skills in IT is important - and how to do it Technical knowledge is often considered the paramount asset within the information technology space. Firms do indeed seek out professionals with the fine-tuned programming and systems administration capabilities needed to conceive, design and deploy mission-critical technology. However, many also emphasize soft skills – especially when recruiting for key leadership roles such as chief technology officer. Who’s on Your Team? Topics Column Our expert columnists offer opinion and analysis on important issues facing modern businesses and managers. See All Articles in This Series
How To Compile Your Holiday Videos Into A Cool Movie Trailer With iMovie [Mac] You have lots of short videos from your weekend vacation and you want to compile and share the clips. But you have barely had the time to do it. What can you do? Well, if you are a Mac user, you can quickly compile your holiday clips into a movie trailer using iMovie and share the trailer as a ‘teaser’ with your friends. 5 Ways to Improve Internal Communication With Remote Customer Service Teams Internal communication is a priority for companies—but with remote work becoming the norm, the ways that teams keep in touch have changed. To ensure that customer service teams are aligned with the direction of the company, you need to learn how to communicate strategy effectively. In this article, we share the best ways to improve internal communication with remote customer service teams. Simplify Communication for Remote Customer Service Teams
Guide to Internal Communication, the Basecamp Way Rules of thumb, and general philosophy Below you'll find a collection of general principles we try to keep in mind at Basecamp when communicating with teammates, within departments, across the company, and with the public. They aren't requirements, but they serve to create boundaries and shared practices to draw upon when we do the one thing that affects everything else we do: communicate. You can not not communicate. Not discussing the elephant in the room is communicating. How to sharpen your Zoom communication skills At this stage, it goes without saying that COVID-19 has changed everything. Especially the way we communicate with one another at work. Since the onset of the global pandemic, there’s been a sharp uptick in remote work, which means nearly all our meetings now happen over Zoom. This makes the hard task of communication even harder.
Negotiating: The Top Ten Ways that Culture Can Affect Your Negotiation When Enron was still – and only – a pipeline company, it lost a major contract in India because local authorities felt that it was pushing negotiations too fast. In fact, the loss of the contract underlines the important role that cultural differences play in international negotiation. For one country’s negotiators, time is money; for another’s, the slower the negotiations, the better and more trust in the other side. Critical Project Management Skill: Negotiation – Technical Project Management in Living and Geometric Order The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponent that he understands their arguments. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge After reading this lesson, you will be able to Explain the importance of negotiation in daily life and on the jobDescribe the advantages of principled negotiation, as described by Roger Fisher and William Ury in their book Getting to YesExplain the role of emotions in negotiations and list some strategies for dealing with themDiscuss cross-cultural issues related to negotiationProvide guidelines on evaluating the ethics of a negotiationDefine terms related to dispute resolution Whether you realize it or not, you engage in negotiations every day. The need for negotiation, or settling differences, is a fact of human life.