Top 5 virtual team challenges
Over the last 14 years, we have delivered over 75,000 participant days of remote and virtual team training for over 300 organizations. As preparation for the training, we often use a remote and virtual team questionnaire, either for individual participants or as part of a benchmarking profile where participants can see how their remote and virtual team compares with about 3,000 other participants in our database.
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Here are the top five remote and virtual team challenges we find in our survey.
- We are so busy with the content of what we do we do not spend enough time on the process of how we are doing it.
- We don’t see each other often enough
- Our virtual team is the wrong size
- The activities of our virtual team are not visible to the rest of the organization
- Not everyone on the virtual team shares the same purpose
In future blog posts we will share some thoughts on each of these five virtual team challenges – don’t forget to subscribe so you can see future posts and updates.
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Sep 08 2008
Sep 10 2008
5:57 pm
I like the look of your new website…some colleagues and myself took a look at it today and noiticed the new blog also.
I agree with your top 5 but we also agreed on one more that causes us real problems…trying to work out just how much involvement do we all need with each other when working across distance and often on project or virtual teams? We think involvement is way too high and that we waste a lot of time trying to do things that we should’t really be inolved in – people try to help but it often causes delays and frustration. But there is also the problem of being seen to be disinterested if you don’t get obviously involved. We are having a team meeting on this next week…any views from Global Integration?
Sep 15 2008
11:44 am
I agree Gerard, how mny times are you on a teleconference when you hear somone “tinkling” their keyboard as they do their e.mail during the meeting because they have forgotten to press the mute button!
You also get the conversations on telecon where effectively I am just talking to one other os the team and although I have stressed again and again that I want interaction, it just isnt there. I guess they are just not as interested as me in what we are doing
Sep 16 2008
9:00 am
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