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Dimensions of Cross-Cultural Differences: 10 of the Biggest
We can think of cross-cultural differences as different average positions along a number of scales from one extreme to another. Let’s look at ten of the most important of these scales.
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Introduction to Managing Remote Teams
Perhaps the biggest challenge for a Team Leader is managing a remote team. We evolved to work together in small groups and in a small area. Now, managing remote teams can involve people all over the globe. This throws up many challenges,...
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Maintaining Productivity in Your Remote Team
Perhaps the core challenge of managing a virtual team is finding ways that we can work together effectively and productively, despite or even because of our geographic separation and cultural differences. The answer is well-formed...
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Margerison McCann: The Team Management Wheel
Charles Margerison and Dick McCann developed one of the leading tools to help managers with team performance: the Team Management Wheel.
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What are Kurt Lewin's Freeze Phases for Team Development?
Kurt Lewin is one of the giants of 20th Century psychology. And one of his best contributions is Kurt Lewin's Freeze Phases model of how people go through transitions.
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Teamwork: Providing for Your Team
Providing for your team is an important part of leadership. To create teamwork, you need to serve your team, so they can get on with working together, as a team. This is sometimes known as ‘servant leadership’.
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Teamwork: Your Team's Skills and Expertise
Do you have a clear understanding of your team's skills and expertise? And what are you doing to develop them for breadth, depth, and balance?
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Teamwork: Problem Solving with Your Team
One of the joys of really great teamwork is the enormous scope for creative thinking and innovative problem solving. Team problem solving is great!
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Supporting Your Team through Conflict: 3+1 Roles to Play
Teams don’t always run smoothly. You can get conflict within your team and conflict between your team and other teams or outsiders. As team leader, it can fall to you to support your team through this conflict. And there are three (plus...
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How to Support Your Team for Learning: 7 Things
A big part of how I see my responsibilities as a team leader is in developing the skills, talents, and knowledge of the people under my care. I need to support them for learning.
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Tips for Cross-Cultural Working: 10 + 1 Bonus
In readying yourself to lead cross-cultural teams, here are ten of my best practical tips... with a bonus on the end!
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Creating Trust in Remote Teams
Humans have evolved to work together in small, close-knit groups, often based around family relationships. These allow for slow and deep relationships to form, that are the basis of common understanding and mutual trust. Remote teams...
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Helping Build Understanding in Your Remote Team
A vital part of your role in leading a virtual, or remote team is helping everyone to understand one another’s cultures, expectations, and norms of behavior.
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Creating Connection and Building Culture in Your Remote Team
Building connection and creating a distinctive culture will be far harder with a remote team. You must take the lead in making efforts to communicate well.
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Fostering Responsibility within Your Remote Team
This challenge is about how to create accountability, responsibility, and an appropriate balance of managerial control and team-member autonomy. It is especially hard in remote teams.
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Getting Sufficient Challenge in Your Remote Team
One challenge in managing virtual teams is… Challenge. That is, that we fail to adequately challenge one-another’s thinking, because the distance and cultural differences in a remote team make it even more uncomfortable or difficult than...
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Developing People in Your Remote Team
As a team leader, you have a responsibility to help your team members develop their skills and build their careers - even in a remote team, when you cannot be with them.
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Taking Care of the Wellbeing of People in Your Remote Team
Of course, the final challenge of managing a remote team is to take care of the welfare and wellbeing of people who can be a very long way from you. The usual quiet chat in an informal arrangement is off the table. And so too is your...
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What is The Tuckman Model - Tuckman Team Development Model?
The Tuckman Model of Group Formation and Team Development is one of the most important, useful, and successful management models. Simply put... Every manager needs to know it!
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What is with Swift Trust? Accelerate Team Development
Swift Trust s a simple idea... How can you quickly build trust among strangers? If you are getting a group together and you need them to perform well as a team, quickly, then the Swift Trust framework can really help.
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Team Building Events: Why, What, and How?
Team building is an important part of getting the best from your team. This is a thorough primer for any manager who needs to get team building right.
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Teamwork: Elements of Effective Team Meetings
Team meetings can be an awesome way to get your team coordinated. Or they can be a huge drain on your team’s time and morale. What are the essential elements of an effective team meeting, if you want to foster great team working?
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Teamwork: Your Team Working Problems Solved
Teamwork is not easy. So, it is likely that, from time-to-time, you will run into team working problems. In this video, we’ll look at four of the most common.
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Team Leadership: Handling Team Problems
Team working is not always smooth and easy. So, an essential part of team leadership is handling team problems. Here we look at the basics of how to handle 8 common team problems.