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Problems on the Team: A Mini Case Study – Part I

Why do I have to be involved in this initiative!

From the minute the team was announced, several of the members were overheard telling their colleagues that they didn’t understand why they needed to be involved in this initiative. They wanted to continue to work alone, as they have been doing for many years. Some […]

Assess Your Project Team

To better assign roles and responsibilities to each team member

Prior to assigning roles and responsibilities on projects, assess the skills and knowledge of your project team. This does not have to be a formal assessment process. Consider these simple best practices to assess the skills of your team and assign roles and responsibilities to […]

Engaging Your Remote Team

Remote (or virtual) teams are certainly not as easy to engage on a project or initiative as are teams that are co-located, especially if we are never able to get them to come together to meet each other face-to-face at least on occasion. If it easier to ignore others when we don’t see them every […]

Enabling Virtual Team Relationships – Part XI

Wrapping Up Our Story

Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part XI and Part X of our story for background information.

Let’s jump to the end of the project and wrap up our story. Alice ended up the project within the allocated budget (which […]

Enabling Virtual Team Relationships – Part X

Meeting with the Project Sponsor

Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII and Part IX of our story for background information.

Alice knew that she needed Jonathan’s (project sponsor) assistance on this matter. She was not going to be able to intervene with the manager […]