Making Virtual Teams Fly

Agenda

6. Questions 

and Answers

1. Introduction of Trainer and Participants

2. Blended Collaboration

3. Challenges 

and Constraints

4. Change Management

5. Tools for 

Virtual Teams

Who am I?

I have twenty years of experience as a consultant, trainer and coach, in particular in change management.

Clients: private business, the public sector and non-governmental organizations, including the development sector.

Worked in more than 50 countries of Europe, North, Central and South America, Africa and Asia,

What I care for: creating working environments in which people want to collaborate and to excel.

Who are you? Please write into the chat box who you are and from whereyou call in.

Radical Inclusion

Radical Inclusion is an international network of change facilitators, marketing experts and internet enthusiasts who are dedicated to using online and f2f facilitation tools to make collaboration more inclusive, persistent, fun and most of all effective.

7 members: -West Coast US-Canada-Brazil-Germany

Blended Collaboration

The Case for Blended Collaboration

Distributed teams have become a standard pattern of work.

However, organizations have not yet mastered to establish frameworks for effective collaboration.

Inclusivity is one of the magic sticks for organizations to produce better results and manage the complexity of our world.

What is Blended Collaboration?

Blended collaboration is the combination of skills, practices and tools from different worlds.

Real time: We interact directly and without time gap.

Near time: We interact whenever convenient but close in time to the stimulus.

Asynchronous: We interact whenever suitable to our own working patterns.

Discussion (please write in the chat box)Question 1

What hinders people to effectively collaborate virtually?

Discussion (please write in the chat box)Question 1

What are success factors for effective collaboration?

Resistance

Reasons for resistance to effective collaboration:

1. lack of incentives for collaboration2. Knowledge is an inter-organizational currency3. Collaboration is a question of trust and loyalty4. Virtual collaboration is considered as an “IT issue”, and IT

departments are driving the process5. Physical and virtual collaboration are different6. Virtual collaboration is considered as a second-hand

substitute for physical collaboration

7. People (and organizations) just don’t know how to do it

Changing attitudes

Principles of the Change Journey

All people have concerns, purposes and circumstances that matter to them. If people feel that their issues are acknowledged and respected, they will support change.

Change has its boundaries and limits. Change is partly given to us, and everything is not negotiable. There will always be conditions that we need to accept and work around.

Problems become our friends little by little. We need to start small in the beginning of our change journey and improve the process along the way.

Everybody needs to become an innovator. Widen the circle of involvement as much as possible and get people to buy in.

Multilevel communication about change is essential. Connect people to the content of the change and to each other by virtual and face-to-face means.

www.changejourney.org

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External

Internal

LinkedinRI Learning GroupTwitter

PBWorks (Wiki)

Skype Chat

Team Speak

Skype Voice

email

FaceBookRI Fan Page

RI Blog

Mindmeister

Mikogo

Webex

Real Time Communication Information Storage and Sharing

Tools we Use

Our water cooler

Our drawing room

Our window to the world

Collaboration in Virtual Teams: Success Factors

• Others respect my situation• Others appreciate my competenceRespect

• A necessary trust level can be reached

• …and maintained over timeTrust

• What is in for me?• Distributed leadership

Balance of me and we

Your questions?

An invitation

Experience self-organized virtual collaboration by taking part in our annual virtual unconference. This year our theme is "Making the Most of Collaborative Worlds: Physical, Virtual and Blended Collaboration".

This Radical Real-time unconference will take place in different virtual platforms that offer possibilities to meet both asynchronously and synchronously.

Read more at http://rtvc10.ning.com/

How are you now?