When working on a virtual team — when the other people are invisible to you — interpreting silence is one of the biggest challenges. They are invisible to your eyes, and now inaudible to your ears. What do we make of this? Silence can mean many things. It […]
Why do we work in teams? 3. Teamwork to Increase Breadth (a) Gaining a wider perspective Teams enable organizations to secure a wider perspective on pressing problems and opportunities. Different people bring different past experiences, different cultural mandates and different points of reference to bear on these problems […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Microsoft released tools to help with the adoption of SharePoint in the enterprise: the Internal Buzz Kit, and GEAR Up. “Internal Buzz Kit: this kit provides sample materials and training to help customers kick off SharePoint deployments. It includes […]
Why do we work in teams? 2. Teamwork to Increase Speed (a) Greater speed by dividing the complexity Some projects are so complex, and have so many interlocking requirements that although one person could get it done, it would take years or decades of their life to do […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams In 10 Rules for Creative Teams, Jeffrey shares strategies for effectiveness. Key suggestions: (4) establish processes for inter-team communication, (7) solve relationship problems quickly, and (10) be results oriented, not method oriented. Doug posts notes from an interview with […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Ivan argues that its time to give up email and go face-to-face for certain business meetings. “We want to be treated seriously — like the big boys. We can’t, shouldn’t and won’t escape from meeting with our clients because […]
The February 2008 edition of Messaging News is out, and my article for this edition is entitled Investing in Collaboration Tools. “It is a huge responsibility to be charged with articulating and implementing a collaboration strategy for an organization. Fundamentally, it requires structuring the way that people interact […]
Why do we work in teams? 1. Teamwork to Increase Power (a) Greater power by leveraging the knowledge of internal and external experts. People that become experts through ongoing learning and experience are called upon to share their knowledge with people working on various teams. They may be […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Jon explores how knowledge worker experience work and people today: via the computer screen. What’s the implication of this to our humanity? “There’s a very real issue here that is helping to create the emerging dynamics – the more […]
Mark Shead over at Productivity501 interviewed me about my switch to the Dvorak keyboard. “We’ve talked about the Dvorak keyboard before when I learned Michael Sampson was making the switch. Since it has been a few months, I thought it would be interesting to checkup and see how […]
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