When working remotely trust within in a new team isn’t something that builds up naturally: Here are some research results and hands-on advice on how to foster swift trust in virtual teams and achieve better project communication and results.
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Mindfulness is a key to personal satisfaction, but also to good relationships at work. If you are mindful, you will notice more quickly when you are tired, or when a meeting has ended with an ambiguity.
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Virtual Collaboration Spaces are the remote equivalent to offices and meeting rooms. You join those collaboration spaces to let serendipitous moments happen, get the awareness who is “in the office” right now, and for deep collaborative work.
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Health checks are a special form of feedback from colleagues in the team or company regarding how they are currently doing: mental, satisfaction with processes, tooling and goals.
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Office work is usually structured. Working times and lunch or coffee breaks are by and large predefined, as well as the end of work in the evening. Habits structure the time around and enable different experiences and human exchanges: Encounters on the way to work, a drink with colleagues Friday evening, a common event in the company…
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Due to the lack of personal interaction in virtual teams, it is more difficult to assess the personal situation and the social context of the other team members. This article shows some impulses how virtual teams can become more resilient in their teamwork.
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Whiteboard sessions are often the heart of creative processes and stimulate team flow. Digital whiteboards help to transfer this collaborative experience into the digital world.
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A Retrospective is an opportunity for the team to inspect itself and to create a plan for improvements to be enacted.
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Bad WiFi can seriously drag down your working performance. There are some things you can fix by yourself.
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No video call without internet. Right. But why is it slow like in the 90ies even though you purchased a super broadband line from your internet provider?
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The first days in a new company are important: Getting productive quickly, meeting colleagues and breathing in the company culture. But how does that work remotely?
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Onsite interviews are ideal for both parties to get to know each other from a professional and cultural perspective. This post describes how it also works in a remote setting.
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Instant messaging tools simplify the communication in remote work settings if you stick to a few basic rules.
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Sometimes it is important to get feedback from colleagues during a meeting, workshop or in the middle of the working day. There are excellent tools for getting input quickly and easily.
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Being present without being physically on the spot? This happens with telepresence hardware.
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It’s hard to run effective virtual meetings. A remote meeting guideline provides guidance on how to keep them productive.
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You know pair programming? Mob programming is similar to pair programming with the entire team.
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Writing code in teams is always collaborative. But how to perform effective collaboration practices like pair programming or code walkthroughs in remote settings?
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Video conferencing is a fundamental technology in remote work settings. It brings teams close together even if there are huge physical distances in between.
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