Whether you're a manager at a Fortune 100 company or an entrepreneur, you need a great team to succeed. This is a given fact, but most people take it for granted. So it's important to keep reminding your team members of the importance of collaborative teamwork. To help you out, I put together a list of team building quotes that help inspire your team to keep them motivated. I divided the team building quotes into two categories. The first is a list of 6 quotes that I personally found ... Read More
Virtual Teams Pros and Cons: All You Need to Know
I have been blogging and writing about virtual teams for several years now, yet I haven’t really put together a concise article about the main virtual teams pros and cons. I must say upfront that I’m biased because I’m a huge advocate of working remotely (I work a full-time management job from my home office in Boston), but I do admit there are several advantages that you miss out on in a virtual team environment. In this post, I’ll outline the different advantages and disadvantages of having ... Read More
9 Trust Building Activities for Virtual Teams
One of the primary prerequisites for any successful virtual team is to establish trust among your team members. This post will give you simple and easy to implement trust building activities that will help you build a solid level of trust within your team. Let's start with what trust actually means. What is trust? Here’s one definition: Trust is the assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something. (from Merriam-Webster) Although this is a ... Read More
How to Facilitate a Meeting [Includes FREE Meeting Agenda Template and Meeting Minutes Template]
This post will give you everything you need to know about how to facilitate a meeting. You'll learn what you need to do before your meeting, during your meeting, and after your meeting to run it effectively. As a bonus, I'll also give you a free meeting agenda template and a free meeting minutes template that you can download and use instantly with your own team. Quick side note: This post is an excerpt from my bestselling book Influencing Virtual Teams, and the meeting minutes template ... Read More
A cheap standing desk solution
I don’t want to die. I sit down for 12+ hours a day in my home office. Sitting for that long every day is definitely going to kill me. And the fact that I binge on junk food every now and then makes things worse. (I have a sweet tooth – can’t help it) This standing desk craze isn’t some fad. Just google “sitting kills you” and read all the science-based research on this stuff. There’s study after study after study proving that "sitting is the new smoking." To make things worse, sitting ... Read More
How to Set Up a Telecommuting Policy for your Company the Right Way
A short while ago, I was invited to speak (along with a panel of experts) about how to set up a telecommuting policy for your company. The webinar was organized by AgilQuest - a company that offers software and services solutions for the mobile workforce - and moderated by Doug Lucy, AgilQuest's director of marketing. The webinar was divided into two main parts: Part 1 was about organizations that are just starting out with a new telework or flexible work strategy, and what they should ... Read More
3 Fun and Easy Virtual Team Building Activities
Update: I launched a "Fun Virtual Team-Building Activities" book that includes 18 easy games you can play on Zoom or Webex with your team (no special apps needed & includes downloadable templates). I'm donating some of the profits to COVID-19 efforts. Click here to learn more. Virtual teams can feel very lonely. Remote employees are typically focused on their own silo, and rarely interact informally with their peers and managers like they would in a regular office. Meetings in particular can ... Read More
Webinar Replay: Building Trust in Your Virtual Team
I had a great conversation with a team of experts about building and increasing trust in your virtual team. Here is the webinar replay if you missed it (click play on the YouTube video below to watch it). I highly recommend you watch it, especially if you work as part of a virtual team or manage a remote workforce. Dr. Howard B. Esbin of PlayPrelude, and Lisette Sutherland, of Collaboration Superpowers hosted the webinar on Google Hangouts. The panel also included Alexey ... Read More
A 60-Second Overview of “Influencing Virtual Teams”
If you didn't get the chance to read my "Influencing Virtual Teams" bestselling book, or if you have read it and would like a simple refresher of the 17 tactics presented in it, here's a quick 60-second overview on SlideShare. I hope you find it helpful! Hassan P.S. - Can I ask for a quick favor? If you've read the book, would you take 1 minute to review it on Amazon? I would love to hear your feedback (I read every single review), and it would mean the world to me. Click here to ... Read More
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