Leading a Distributed Team
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This document discusses tips for leading distributed teams. It emphasizes establishing clear expectations about goals, schedules, and responsibilities. Leaders should provide explicit instructions and establish team norms, policies and procedures. Regular communication is important through embracing technology like video conferencing and using open-ended questions. Creating rhythms with standard check-ins helps teams stay engaged. Harnessing technology like file sharing and screen sharing tools can also help virtual teams collaborate effectively. Face-to-face meetings, when possible, are valuable for building trust and relationships within distributed teams.
Leading a Distributed Team
- 1. LEADING A DISTRIBUTED TEAM … A CHAPTER LEADERS WEBINAR
- 2. Let’s explore … What’s different that we need to focus on How can we engage across the wires Tips, tricks & technology
- 3. Challenge: Lose 50% of communications
- 4. Challenge: Less talk, more technology
- 5. Challenge: Trust built through reliability
- 8. Clear Expectations What’s done look like What’s our schedule What are our goals What’s our charge
- 9. Ingredients: Explicit Instructions & Big Rules
- 10. Explicit Instructions & Big Rules Set up project dashboard Share team norms Have policies & procedures Be clear on what has to be done
- 11. Ingredients: Commit to Communicate
- 12. Commit to Communicate Embrace technology Use open-ended questions Frequency Listen
- 14. Ingredients: I’ve Got Rhythm
- 15. Create Rhythm Create standing check-ins Provide cues to what's important or new Standard check-in practice
- 16. Ingredients: Fun
- 18. “…the more you go virtual, the more the quality of management matters.” - Glenn Dirks, Teletrips
- 19. 4 Tips
- 20. Kick-off
- 21. Accessible
- 22. Reliable
- 23. Role Model
- 24. Kick-off Role Model Reliable Accessible
- 25. Technology – To Meet Conference Calls • Freeconferencecall.Com • Speek.com Conference Suites • Gotomeeting.com • Anymeeting.com Group Chat • Skype • Google Hangout • ooVoo.com Setting Meetings • Doodle • MeetingWizard
- 26. Technology – Getting Ideas Across File sharing • Online community • Dropbox • Google Drive Doodles & Notes • Evernote • Onenote • Virtual whiteboards like BaiBoard, Twiddla, Vyew Screen-casts & audio • Jing • Screenr Screen sharing • Anymeeting • FreeScreenSharing • Join.me
- 27. Questions … Peggy M. Hoffman, CAE Mariner Management & Marketing phoffman@MarinerManagement.com 301.725.2508 Connect With Me On-line: Twitter: @Peggyhoffman Linkedin: Peggy Hoffman
Editor's Notes
- #17: Consider these tips: FUN!
- #18: Ingredients: Get F2F
- #19: Be successful: Glenn Dirk says a leader’s abilities become much clearer in a distributed business where they can’t peer over their team’s shoulders all day long. “In short, the more you go ‘virtual,’ the more the quality of management matters,” he adds. Glenn Dirks of Teletrips, Inc. in Managing a Remote Workforce: Proven Practices from Successful Leaders, a Citrix Online-sponsored Future of Work report. Tips: Have a strong Kick-off: lets all get to know each other and establishes the charge Accessible Explicit Build Trust aka reliability Be a role model use open-ended questions
- #21: Have a strong Kick-off: lets all get to know each other and establishes the charge Builds community
- #22: You have be available, open, trustworthy Yes, set limits … think like a college professor with office hours, email, on-line class community
- #24: Behave as you wish others to Open-ended questions Meet your own deadlines
- #28: For more information, explanations or questions, contact Peggy M. Hoffman, CAE phoffman@marinermanagement.com * 301.725.2508 * Twitter: @peggyhoffman Also visit the blog at www.marinermanagement.com