Short virtual icebreakers that will boost your virtual meeting

Work meetings are not fun. They are time-consuming and way too often ineffective. And virtual meetings are no exception to that rule. The first rule of a meeting should be: Only have meetings that are necessary. And the second: When in a meeting, get the best out of it. But how to do so? By engaging the whole team from the first minute on. Short virtual icebreakers boost your meeting by creating an engaged and…

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How to foster culture in distributed teams with a team manual

Why is it important to foster company culture in a distributed team when leading virtual teams? To get everybody on the same page. So you can ensure that everybody is moving in the same direction. To give teammates stability and a work environment that they care about. Give people something to believe in and they will go all the way with you. Company culture is shown in the underlying rules of how people work together.…

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What football teaches us about virtual teams and remote management

Companies and sports teams are like well-oiled machines. Like a clockwork where all cogs seamlessly intersect with the next. Every part holds its own very important role. So everybody should concentrate on their own strength. And leave the rest to others. You are a manager of a distributed team and you keep trying to coach your team to be more cohesive, engaged, motivated? You try to create team building activities for them to show your…

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Why virtual teams suffer from isolation and how to change that

Or: How to kill your co-worker by ignoring Slack messages “One of the surest ways to lower individuals' self-esteem is to reject them.” (Forsyth, Donald Group Dynamics) Imagine: You are on social media, Facebook, Slack, Whatsapp, you call it. You write a message to a contact that is online. The addressed somebody received the message and read it. But then: nothing. Minutes pass, and nothing. The person you texted does not reply to you. How…

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Why being co-located doesn’t make you a successful team

Stop blaming remote workers and storks for bad virtual team management The telecommuters of Yahoo! in 2013 and storks, yes the bird, have something in common. Can you guess what?Let me elaborate a little on this. In 2013 Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! at this time, decided to not further allow teleworking for Yahoo! employees. The email that informed the Yahoo! staff stated: To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will…

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