Check Out This Interview With Yael Zofi on General Information About Virtual Communications and the Virtual Business Office
Recently I was interviewed about general information about virtual communications and the virtual business office on ‘live’ radio during Wayne Hurlbert’s Blog Business Success radio show. I described how virtual teams are reshaping the way we do business and shared practical tips about virtual project team management. Combining technology and globalization, virtual teams are the new face of teamwork in business.
Mr. Hurlbert asked pertinent questions about best practices for Team Setup and ways to avoid the most frequent pitfalls and mistakes made in virtual project team management. Some of the questions on general information about virtual communication that were explored during the interview include:
• Why virtual teams are being ever more important for companies?
• How to set up and manage a virtual project team the right way?
• How to ensure that teams produce results and deliver the goods on time?
• What is the future of virtual teams for business and for management?
• How can team managers know that the work is being done.
During the interview, I described the main steps for managers to take in order to develop a strategy and getting deliverables out the door, such as tracking and frequency mechanisms for virtual communication and feedback between team members. We also spoke about effective ways to maximize the long-term benefits of virtual teams, including how to develop trust, defuse conflict and manage projects more efficiently.
You can listen via the link below or on the Blog Business Success host page and click on Archived Segments. Once there, click on the podcast icon at the end of the episode description, to download the show free of charge for your listening enjoyment.
General Information About Virtual Communications Interview Highlight:
Wayne Hurlbert: When you talk about Virtual Teams, what do you mean by a Virtual Team?
Yael Zofi: That’s a great question because actually when I started my research I thought that everyone would know what a Virtual Team is. What I found was that there wasn’t one consistent definition. Some people viewed Virtual Teams as people that work from home or teams that are network teams, or production teams, or that get together for short time frames or sometimes they are synchronous or asynchronous, the same time or not the same time. So, I simplified the definition of Virtual Team and to me it’s whether the person or your team member is across the street or across the world, a Virtual Team is a team whose members are simultaneously working together while physically apart. So, actually the rule of 30 feet, you know, you and I could work across the street we could still be a virtual team, or we can be working across the country or across the world.
