Embracing Virtual Work Culture

The coronavirus crisis is bad news for so many businesses. Here’s how to boost morale and develop a high-performance virtual team in as little time as possible.

5 Tips for Setting Up Your Home Office

Are you now working from home? Here are five considerations for setting up your home office (plus an extra tip) from someone who has plenty of experience sitting in the garden shed on the phone.

Resources for Managing Through Crisis & Disruption

With the global impact of COVID-19, PMI and ProjectManagement.com would like to share resources that can assist you and your organizations manage through disruption, including leading (and working in) remote teams, managing risk, and more.

Start Building an Innovation Team

In the first installment of a multi-part series on building effective innovation teams, we look at the first two important steps: removing organizational friction (from resources to rewards to leadership) and assembling a cross-functional team that balances five key factors, including experience, size and interdependence.

Break the ‘Noise Cycle’ and Focus

Nonstop e-mails, endless meetings, and 24-7 connectedness are crippling our ability to think, focus, solve problems and do the deep work that organizations need to stay competitive. Here are eight recommendations to help you and your teams regain focus.

Making Friends and Influencing People: Using Social Media in Your Projects

The use of social media within projects can substantially help your team building as well as communication with both your onsite and remote teams. What do you need to be aware of?

Tips for Working With Remote Teams

Leading remote teams requires an additional level of management—and using different skills than what you would use with onsite/co-located teams. Having this knowledge and ability will ensure a successful end result to your project.

Topic Teasers Vol. 120: Should We Video Conference?

8 Ways to Better Lead Remote Teams

Leading teams is difficult. Managing remote teams is even more challenging. Here are eight ways to get the very best from your people, wherever they may be working.

Success Factors for Facilitating a Meeting Among Distributed Leaders

Successful distributed meetings require considerable upfront planning and vigilant real-time meeting management. In this article, the author shares key success factors from a meeting that he recently co-facilitated.