Virtual Team Dynamics - The Ulfire Podcast

For every member of every project team, communicating with your peers is a day to day occurrence, yet many struggle with the demands to communicate well, particularly with those they can't see, the members of virtual teams. This article offers some assistance in improving your communication with your peers.

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Learning how to communicate down to your team members is a skill all project managers and leaders need to learn. Regardless of the context of your team, you need to be able to deliver timely, useful and contextually appropriate updates to keep your team informed and motivated.

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Learning to communicate up in a project team, particularly a virtual team, is a skill every team member will need at some stage in their career. Understanding the needs and expectations of your managers from both an administrative and a cultural sense is critical.

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Organisations have many different mechanisms available to them to assist their personnel in developing the skills required to survive and throve in international assignments. This article explores some of the options and outlines how they can be both a developmental tool for the individuals and also deliver real benefits for the company.

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This article discusses how you can build your own support network when you find yourself on a virtual team expat assignment with no formal company support in place. Building a strong personal support network allows you to thrive in your new location rather than struggle to understand the new challenges.

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Determining the appropriate level of training and support for your personnel before sending them off for an international assignment can mean the decision between a full training program and little to no training at all. In the first of a group of articles, we discuss the levels of training to be considered.

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For many who spend large periods of time on overseas assignments the risks and opportunities of going native need to be carefully understood. There are many positives with the phenomena such as a greater level of connection to the host country and culture, but taken too far, personnel can become destructive or obsessive, leading to poor overall results for the business and its staff.

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Understanding how impostor syndrome may impact you or your colleagues and how it may be holding back your business is an important way to be able to get the most from yourself and your company. This article aims to begin to describe how impostor syndrome can affect us all one way or another.

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Determining whether a virtual team approach is right for your business, your project and your personnel is a critical decision that must be carefully considered.
This article discusses some of the issues associated with making this decision and offers some advice to consider.

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As virtual reality technology becomes more accessible and, the software and server power needed to bring it into more of a mainstream business environment, its worth considering who virtual reality technology could impact virtual teams communication.

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