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Best Practices to Increase the Success of Your Virtual Project Team VII

Evaluating Virtual Team Meetings

Evaluating the effectiveness of your virtual team meetings is essential to ensure that:

Team members felt that they were able to effective contribute to the virtual meeting The team felt comfortable and confident with any decisions made during the virtual meeting The objectives were accomplished to team members’ satisfaction

Use any […]

Best Practices to Increase the Success of Your Virtual Project Team VI

Resolving Team Member Conflicts

Conflicts are a part of any project team and can occur more often with virtual teams as it is sometimes easier to have a conflict with someone that is not working alongside you. I have found that conflicts occur more often on those virtual project teams that have not had […]

Best Practices to Increase the Success of Your Virtual Project Team V

Communications

It is essential to set up processes and procedures for effective communications early on in virtual teams. Involve the virtual team members in determining processes and procedures for effective communications as undoubtedly each team member has a preferred way of communicating. I try to accommodate the team members’ individual preferences as much as […]

Best Practices to Increase the Success of Your Virtual Project Team IV

Using Sub-Teams

The larger the virtual team the more complex it becomes and the more difficult for one person to manage overall. I have found that any more than 8 members of the core project team is difficult for one person to manage effectively when the team is a remote or virtual team. Over […]

Best Practices to Increase the Success of Your Virtual Project Team III

Effective Virtual Team Meetings

Virtual team meetings need to be structured and formalized to ensure they are successful and accomplish what needs to be accomplished. It is often easier to manage a face-to-face meeting than it is to manage a virtual team meeting. Face-to-face we can more easily manage conversations, see team members’ reactions […]