Managing Virtual Teams
There is a brillant podcast over at Cornelius Fitchner’s aptly titled ‘Project Management Podcast’ about the challenges of working with virtual project teams (i.e. when team members are scattered all over the world). In addition to all the usual difficulties in managing a project team, virtual teams add an additional layer of communication complication and other relational problems. But this week’s guest–Adrienne Keane of Cisco–has some incredibly good advice for handling these issues. She has organized them into six success factors:
- Foster effective communications
- Focus on building relationships and trust
- Establish team identity & key processes
- Conduct effective virtual meetings
- Recognize & reward team members
- Enable collaboration & communication with technology
This is not pop-management nonsense, Keane has some really good ideas on implementing those factors. Listen to the full podcast for all the details.
