Blog - Articles on Multicultural Virtual Teams by Theresa Sigillito Hollema

Distance Does NOT Make the Heart Grow Fonder

Posted on October 16, 2020 by Theresa Sigillito Hollema

Geographic distance can lead to psychological distance. Generally, the further away colleagues are, the less connected we may feel. Cultural differences may also lead to psychological distance because we feel closer to people who are similar or who work in a way that makes sense to us. If we feel psychologically distant from our colleagues,

Posted in Leadership Development, Team Development, Working Virtually

FREE WORKSHOP: CULTURE ON A VIRTUAL TEAM – DOES IT MATTER?

Posted on October 14, 2020 by admin

Join for 1.5 hour FREE session with Theresa & RemoteLab 20 October, 2020 9.00 CET Culture on a Virtual Team – Does it matter? Working remotely often means we are working with colleagues from different countries. But that should not be a problem, since you are staying in your own country, right? Wrong. We bring our cultural

Posted in General

Remote Leadership with Touch and Feel

Posted on May 4, 2020 by Theresa Sigillito Hollema

The technology is working well enough and everyone has learned to share screens and mute themselves. What’s next? Learning how to operate successfully as a 100% remote team and that begins with the leader. Recently I facilitated a series of workshops for a client on this topic. After three weeks of working at home and navigating

Posted in Leadership Development, Working Virtually

Task-Technology Fit for Seamless Team Communication

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Theresa Sigillito Hollema

How virtual teams effectively use communication tools. We have all been in a meeting that should have been an email. And we have all read email exchanges that should have been meetings. As communication tools are the backbone of virtual work, virtual teams benefit from understanding the characteristics of the various tools and agreeing on

Posted in General, Team Development, Working Virtually

Global Virtual Meeting Cheat Sheet

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Theresa Sigillito Hollema

Swoosh. That is the sound of conferences and on-site meetings being canceled due to the coronavirus. It has happened to me, and many others, and now we are all quickly scrambling for Plan B – a virtual meeting. In the ideal world, conference organizers would redesign the flow for remote participants, such as multiple sessions, engaging virtual activities,

Posted in Working Virtually

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