From the course: Managing Virtual Teams
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Maintaining regular contact with your virtual team
From the course: Managing Virtual Teams
Maintaining regular contact with your virtual team
- Special consideration number one for managers of remote teams. You need to make sure that lines of communication are open and kept open. This means having frequent and regular contact with all your team members, both individually and as a group. This is important for all managers but especially the remote manager, since there's not going to be opportunities for chance encounters. These are your only contacts with your team. You need to make them count. At Carol's publishing company, she has group meetings online with her team twice weekly, at the beginning of the week, to talk about what needs to get done, and at the end of the week to review and discuss any issues. Although most of the remote workers are on the US East Coast, some are on the West Coast and she has that team in Europe to worry about too. So she schedules her meetings at 7:30 AM Pacific time. Late afternoon for Europe, mid-morning for the majority, but…
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