Virtual Teams: When to meet? Leading with Emotional Intelligence

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As I provide workshops and consult on the topic of leading multi-cultural virtual teams, I am often asked “how often should my team meet in person and virtually?”   Leaders asking this question are looking for a guide that they can easily apply to their own teams – have a biweekly conference call to update everyone, meet
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Leading in Complexity – Matrix, Culture and Virtual Working

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Leading in Complexity – Making sense of Matrix, Culture and Virtual Working:  the importance of an integrated approach to leading change ‘It’s just too much, I cannot cope anymore’. David – a soft drinks Category Manager of a global Fortune 500 company – shared his thoughts openly. ‘How can I work with these diffuse new
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Lessons from Space for the Virtual Team

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Managers of virtual teams often struggle with how to create that special connection of high performing teams.   The relational magic when team members clearly care for and help each other, much deeper than simply meeting the transactional requirements to keep the work proceeding.  The question is whether this special connection can happen in a virtual
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Googling the Best Teams

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The New York Times recently published an article about an extensive study by Google in the quest to determine what makes a perfect team.  They investigated almost 200 teams and tried to analyze the characteristics of a great team, such as personalities of the members, diversity of individual characteristics, types of mangers, etc.  After looking
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