在虚拟团队管理边缘化

通过对2011年10月23日, 弗朗西斯

但是你配置你的虚拟工作团队,你将永远与越来越少控制在团体组完成了该项目运行,得到得到只有一些大集团,可以操作的自我充分的信息和团体的团体和小团体的人不能。 在所有这些群体的组合之间,你将有一些在操作中心的运作和那些在边缘。 这些利润可以是地域,时间或技术,但无论其形式,它们总是存在的,必须自觉地管理和控制,随时跟踪您的项目。

当人员开始感到被边缘化,他们将开始表现方式,要么潮水该项目的最佳利益,或至少不直接与项目需求相一致,这通常是不自觉的或恶意的反应,只是一种求生的本能踢人员的感觉,在帮助被边缘化,相信他们有一个目的。 这些人员的反应可能在以下几种方式之一,通常是由某种形式的认罪之前被允许更多地参与项目或线管理。 他们可以尝试做他们认为是该项目最好的,这可能是对还是错时,对中央认为该项目的目标,但至少他们将试图判断,他们可能只是原地踏步,做未成年人,少缴费他们知道是在该项目的利益,但不necessariliy绝对的最佳使用他们的技能和时间,或者他们可以通过离开项目别处寻求更多的参与的角色,或在积极抵制该项目的中央意见的任务,最坏的情况下积极通过抵制从项目的管理组的努力,引导他们和其他人努力破坏该项目的活动。 [点击继续...]

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There are times in every vir­tual teams pro­ject when there is little real sub­sti­tute for a face to face meet­ing, get­ting every­one, or at least a major­ity of the project’s key play­ers into a single room for a series of meet­ings is peri­od­ic­ally essen­tial to keep the pro­ject on track. These times would typ­ic­ally include, but not be lim­ited to;

  • Plan­ning ses­sions both before the start of a major pro­ject with sub­stan­tial unique fea­tures and at key mile­stones within the pro­ject where it may be going through major struc­tural or organ­isa­tional changes,
  • Kick off meet­ings for com­plex, high value or high risk projects,
  • Cli­ent reviews and present­a­tions (at any stage of a project),
  • Peri­odic internal reviews of pro­ject status,
  • Spon­sors” meet­ings — though many of these can be held vir­tu­ally, hold­ing some face to face can still bring advantages,
  • Les­sons learned ses­sions — which can be con­duc­ted as a com­bin­a­tion of both face to face a vir­tual pres­ence with some mem­bers of the pro­ject team trav­el­ing to the meet­ing and oth­ers call­ing in when needed,

Now cer­tainly these meet­ings bring value to the pro­ject, and if prop­erly exploited also provide bene­fits to both the base organ­isa­tion and the indi­vidu­als involved; they allow for addi­tional side meet­ings that oth­er­wise would not hap­pen, they allow for some social inter­ac­tion and they allow the vis­it­ors to develop more of an under­stand­ing of the envir­on­ment and cul­ture of the host­ing office, all of which can help the pro­ject and the organ­isa­tion work bet­ter together on cur­rent and future endeav­ours. Yet for all of these bene­fits, many pro­ject organ­isa­tions either put little merit to such meet­ings or in some instances act­ively or pass­ively dis­cour­age them. [click to continue…]

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I was hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with a col­league recently where we were dis­cuss­ing dir­ec­tions from an air­port arrivals gate to the city shuttle bus, which, in a little detail was to turn right at the hot dog stand then left a few meters later, exit through the glass doors and look for the shuttle bus. […]

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Some­thing which comes up quite fre­quently in dis­cus­sions I have with col­leagues, par­tic­u­larly those new to work­ing in vir­tual teams, is whether there is a pro­tocol for estab­lish­ing con­tact at the start of par­ti­cip­a­tion in a new pro­ject. I have dis­cussed this with a num­ber of col­leagues and given it quite a bit of thought […]

Read the full article →

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Within com­mu­nic­a­tions in inter­na­tional pro­jects, one often over­looked facet which can be eas­ily addressed, requires com­plex and com­mit­ted effort and can cause sub­stan­tial dam­age if handled badly is the man­age­ment of bar­ri­ers affect­ing com­mu­nic­a­tions between the vari­ous inter­na­tional parties. One of the biggest influ­ences on a pro­jects abil­ity to develop and main­tain an effect­ive inter-office […]

Read the full article →

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Often, dur­ing the pro­cess of ini­ti­at­ing new pro­jects, it seems that agreed budgets come under pres­sure, par­tic­u­larly when the newly appoin­ted pro­ject man­ager and cli­ent are review­ing where the mon­ies are to be spent, one of the the first thing to be ques­tioned and, often sub­sequently removed, is the cost of train­ing, which, while an […]

Read the full article →

There are times in every vir­tual teams pro­ject when there is little real sub­sti­tute for a face to face meet­ing, get­ting every­one, or at least a major­ity of the project’s key play­ers into a single room for a series of meet­ings is peri­od­ic­ally essen­tial to keep the pro­ject on track. These times would typ­ic­ally include, but not be lim­ited to;

  • Plan­ning ses­sions both before the start of a major pro­ject with sub­stan­tial unique fea­tures and at key mile­stones within the pro­ject where it may be going through major struc­tural or organ­isa­tional changes,
  • Kick off meet­ings for com­plex, high value or high risk projects,
  • Cli­ent reviews and present­a­tions (at any stage of a project),
  • Peri­odic internal reviews of pro­ject status,
  • Spon­sors” meet­ings — though many of these can be held vir­tu­ally, hold­ing some face to face can still bring advantages,
  • Les­sons learned ses­sions — which can be con­duc­ted as a com­bin­a­tion of both face to face a vir­tual pres­ence with some mem­bers of the pro­ject team trav­el­ing to the meet­ing and oth­ers call­ing in when needed,

Now cer­tainly these meet­ings bring value to the pro­ject, and if prop­erly exploited also provide bene­fits to both the base organ­isa­tion and the indi­vidu­als involved; they allow for addi­tional side meet­ings that oth­er­wise would not hap­pen, they allow for some social inter­ac­tion and they allow the vis­it­ors to develop more of an under­stand­ing of the envir­on­ment and cul­ture of the host­ing office, all of which can help the pro­ject and the organ­isa­tion work bet­ter together on cur­rent and future endeav­ours. Yet for all of these bene­fits, many pro­ject organ­isa­tions either put little merit to such meet­ings or in some instances act­ively or pass­ively dis­cour­age them. [click to continue…]

Copy­right secured by Digiprove © 2011 Francis Norman
书签和共享

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Outsourcing of higher skilled work and its impact on the virtual team relationship

13 August 2011

For most of the time the vir­tual teams approach has been used in the mod­ern indus­trial world, which is really since the inter­net and com­puter tech­no­logy reached a point where it could sup­port multi centre work, one of the key aspects most heav­ily exploited has been to out­source the more labour intens­ive, less tech­no­logy or […]

Read the full article →

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Some time ago I pos­ted a piece titled “Provid­ing ongo­ing assist­ance in the devel­op­ment of inter­na­tional com­mu­nic­a­tion skills” where I dis­cussed ways organ­isa­tions can sup­port their per­son­nel when they are work­ing in vir­tual team based pro­jects, how some ongo­ing sup­port can help the team to con­tinue to grow together and through that growth deliver a […]

Read the full article →

Turn right at the hot dog stand…

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I was hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion with a col­league recently where we were dis­cuss­ing dir­ec­tions from an air­port arrivals gate to the city shuttle bus, which, in a little detail was to turn right at the hot dog stand then left a few meters later, exit through the glass doors and look for the shuttle bus. […]

Read the full article →

Do you need a communications coach?

28 May 2011

Quite some time ago I star­ted to think about how best to help senior and gen­er­ally very busy man­agers improve their com­mu­nic­a­tions abil­it­ies when run­ning or work­ing in vir­tual team envir­on­ments.  These people usu­ally come from a world where they are assumed to know everything and yet never have the time to learn new skills […]

Read the full article →

Making first contact across international projects

26 February 2011

Some­thing which comes up quite fre­quently in dis­cus­sions I have with col­leagues, par­tic­u­larly those new to work­ing in vir­tual teams, is whether there is a pro­tocol for estab­lish­ing con­tact at the start of par­ti­cip­a­tion in a new pro­ject. I have dis­cussed this with a num­ber of col­leagues and given it quite a bit of thought […]

Read the full article →

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Within com­mu­nic­a­tions in inter­na­tional pro­jects, one often over­looked facet which can be eas­ily addressed, requires com­plex and com­mit­ted effort and can cause sub­stan­tial dam­age if handled badly is the man­age­ment of bar­ri­ers affect­ing com­mu­nic­a­tions between the vari­ous inter­na­tional parties. One of the biggest influ­ences on a pro­jects abil­ity to develop and main­tain an effect­ive inter-office […]

Read the full article →

Providing ongoing assistance in the development of international communications skills

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In an earlier post I dis­cussed the dif­fer­ent levels of sup­port and train­ing offered by organ­isa­tions to their people when deploy­ing them onto inter­na­tional pro­jects, either as ex-pat’s or as home office based per­son­nel work­ing as with inter­na­tional offices. Many organ­isa­tions, in my exper­i­ence and obser­va­tion, will give their per­son­nel some level of induc­tion and […]

Read the full article →

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7 November 2010

Often, dur­ing the pro­cess of ini­ti­at­ing new pro­jects, it seems that agreed budgets come under pres­sure, par­tic­u­larly when the newly appoin­ted pro­ject man­ager and cli­ent are review­ing where the mon­ies are to be spent, one of the the first thing to be ques­tioned and, often sub­sequently removed, is the cost of train­ing, which, while an […]

Read the full article →