Comments on: Establishing Team Culture in a Teleworking Environment

By: Open Thread: Can Technology Ever Bridge the Gap for Remote Teams? - OCSEA

Open Thread: Can Technology Ever Bridge the Gap for Remote Teams? - OCSEA — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:25:27 +0000

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By: Open Thread: Can Technology Ever Bridge the Gap for Remote Teams?

Open Thread: Can Technology Ever Bridge the Gap for Remote Teams? — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:01:50 +0000

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By: Kapil Makhija

Kapil Makhija — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:29:50 +0000

Celine you have very smartly pointed the ways of involving a team for producing better results. Several times I got the opportunity to work with remote teams working on different projects at one time. Assessing the mood and attitude of people towards the project has always been difficult. We tend to use basecamp for collaboration and then we realised that its not only about collaboration. Generating a team spirit by taking everyone along is very important, but making people come up with solid initiatives and ideas was an uphill task. Making our people perform extraordinary require them to feel a part of the team and not just a task doer.
We tried to develop an in-house on line tool for this purpose, and meanwhile we came across an awesome tool called Remindo.
Remindo is an great web tool for teams. It enables project collaboration and make our team spirits high. The features provoke user to share opinions, links, ideas for producing better results. Active participation and easy sharing of ideas, updates, status and tasks make us a winning team and makes our clients happy. I remember I picked it up from webworkerdaily review long time back. I would like you to comment on your experience with such tools.

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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:39:43 +0000

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By: Priyanka D

Priyanka D — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:46:41 +0000

the telework environment should have some social element to it… where the remote workers talk abt stuff other than work. That would really foster teaming up for work.

By: Zack Grossbart

Zack Grossbart — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:05:55 +0000

I’ve been working with remote teams for a long time and the fact that you know most of your group ahead of time is a big advantage. It helps to humanize everyone. After meeting everyone on the team my first step would be to establish your communication norms. Will you talk over IM or IRC? Do you have daily conference calls or just the occasional email?

The goal of communication norms it make it easy for everyone on the team to connect. Don’t make your team hunt for an email addresses or worry that they are bothering someone calling them at home. You can always add more communication channels, but having a few established from day one is vital.

In the end your distributed team will succeed if you get them to realize that telecommuting means you have to talk more than you do in the office. You have to out of your way to communicate and make sure you work together. Give them excuses to talk to each other. Your idea of working together with personal projects is a really good one.

Once you get your started started it just takes a little time. People need to get comfortable and learn to trust each other. It sounds like you are off to a great start.