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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 […]

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

Team Kick Off Meeting

In today’s article on best practices to increase the success of your virtual project teams we’ll cover the “team kick off meeting.”

I strive to get clients to see the value of bringing a virtual team together for the initial kick off meeting. It is so much more valuable to […]

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

Roles & Responsibilities

Over the next few weeks we’ll be posting best practices focused on successfully leading your virtual project team. These best practices will help you increase the success of your team overall – working together, meeting goals, sharing information, etc. Project teams can be challenging in general, add a virtual component to […]