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Virtual Performance: Harvesting the Power of Virtual Teams
Ever wonder which common virtual team member behavior can lower a person’s IQ more than going without a night’s sleep--and even more than smoking marijuana?
“Huh?” you reply.
When colleagues Peg Aldridge--an innovation specialist at the Creating WE Institute--along with communication expert Nancy Ring and I began our research into what fosters virtual team performance, we never dreamt our work would relate to marijuana in any way. Yet, research funded by Hewlett-Packard and conducted by the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London shows that multitasking lowers a person’s IQ by a whopping 10 points, while losing a night’s sleep costs just an eight-point decline, and being high on marijuana results in a mere four point drop.
With this in mind…
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How many of us multitask during our virtual team meetings?
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How does that impact our team’s ability to meet its performance goals?
The effect of multitasking is just one of many variables my colleagues and I are trying to uncover in our research of virtual teams and the accompanying survey. This article relays some of what we’ve learned from our research and our many years of diverse experience and observations, and what we hope to uncover in our survey. If you’d like to join in the fun, please do…
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