Comments on: Your Top Tips for Working in a Virtual Team https://www.mindtools.com/blog/top-tips-virtual-team/ Essential skills for an excellent career Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:36:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Midgie Thompson https://www.mindtools.com/blog/top-tips-virtual-team/#comment-2853 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 10:36:03 +0000 http://www.mindtools.com/blog/?p=9925#comment-2853 In reply to Sreekanth.

Thanks Sreekanth for sharing your top tips for working in a virtual team. I like the idea of activities across teams to help overall team building!

]]> By: Sreekanth https://www.mindtools.com/blog/top-tips-virtual-team/#comment-2852 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 05:42:42 +0000 http://www.mindtools.com/blog/?p=9925#comment-2852 1. Ensure you have a clear communication protocol.
2. Educate the teams on the culture cause what is acceptable in one culture may not be in another.
3. Coach Finicky employees to be tolerant.
4. If possible have team building activities with the cross-site teams to nurture team building.

]]> By: Midgie Thompson https://www.mindtools.com/blog/top-tips-virtual-team/#comment-2851 Thu, 02 Mar 2017 07:40:02 +0000 http://www.mindtools.com/blog/?p=9925#comment-2851 In reply to Mhairi Roberts.

Thanks Mhairi for sharing your suggestion for working in a virtual team. I agree that getting to know the whole person, and not just the work person, is important and makes such a difference to how you feel towards the team and the work.

]]> By: Mhairi Roberts https://www.mindtools.com/blog/top-tips-virtual-team/#comment-2850 Wed, 01 Mar 2017 18:05:52 +0000 http://www.mindtools.com/blog/?p=9925#comment-2850 Do check ins and share the emotional connection that is usually enjoyed in a face to face situation. Make time and space in virtual teams for getting to know the whole person and not just the work person.

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