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.



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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.



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Charles Margerison and Dick McCann developed one of the leading tools to help managers with team performance: the Team Management Wheel.

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. <b<br/>r/>

This is sometimes known as ‘servant leadership’.

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?

One of the joys of really great teamwork is the enormous scope for creative thinking and innovative problem solving. Team problem solving is great!

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...

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.

In readying yourself to lead cross-cultural teams, here are ten of my best practical tips... with a bonus on the end!

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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!

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.<b<br/>r/>

What are the essential elements of an effective team meeting, if you want to foster great team working?

Teamwork is not easy. So, it is likely that, from time-to-time, you will run into team working problems.<b<br/>r/>

In this video, we’ll look at four of the most common.

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.

The Wisdom of Teams by Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith is a true classic among Twentieth Century business books. It uncovers the wisdom of what teams can achieve, and how they can perform at their best.

Meredith Belbin set out to understand why management teams succeed or fail. And the tools he created to help them succeed is the set of nine Belbin Team Roles and the Team Role Profile.

This chant teaches kids how to follow directions and act as a team at camp.

This video is about the importance of teamwork in achieving common goals and the five stages of teamwork, as identified by educational psychologist Bruce Tuckman. It highlights the challenges students face in group projects and the...