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The Lonely Isolate on Thanksgiving

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Theresa Sigillito Hollema

For years I have been the lonely isolate on Thanksgiving in my geographically dispersed family. I live in the Netherlands and the rest of my family in the US. At the beginning of our virtual holidays, I would try to get their attention by calling or sending emails, but these efforts were futile as my family

Posted in Team Development, Working Virtually

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

Mis-diagnosing Virtual Collaboration

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Theresa Sigillito Hollema

Sometimes looking from a different angle makes the difference. For years I have pondered the key ingredients to make an offshoring structure in a company a success. By offshoring I mean the centralization of a function in one location (ie., Shared Service Center, Center of Excellence, R&D Center) with internal customers or colleagues around the

Posted in Team Development, Working Virtually

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