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By Gina Abudi, on March 3rd, 2016
Most of the teams you will work on will involve virtual team members. And in many cases they will come from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Consider these best practice steps to improve teamwork that involves working with team members across cultural boundaries:
Communicate in a variety of ways (verbal and written)
Communicating in a […]
By Gina Abudi, on January 19th, 2016
A team charter provides a team – whether a workgroup, department team or a project team – with clarity around the purpose, mission and goals of the team. Most particularly for virtual teams the charter is absolutely essential to ensure understanding of what the team has been tasked with doing for the organization.
A team […]
By Gina Abudi, on December 3rd, 2015 In a survey Abudi Consulting Group did of 50 managers who lead virtual teams, the following top three challenges were identified:
Communication issues: communicating across time zones as well as lack of appropriate technology to enable for virtual communications Cultural differences: understanding cultural backgrounds and managing in a way that enables for increased effectiveness on […]
By Gina Abudi, on November 11th, 2015 The first four stages of the team development model was proposed and developed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965.
Every team – workgroup, project team, department, etc. – goes through the four stages of team development; there are no exceptions.
What’s important for the new supervisor is to understand the four stages and how to manage […]
By Gina Abudi, on September 24th, 2015 Sharing information with your team enables for building trust with them. Certainly there are some things that managers may not be able to share immediately with their team; but often the problem is not that they cannot share information, but that they will not – for whatever reason. Do you, as a manager,
Keep […]
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