Blog: Tips & Info
Important information on virtual teams, virtual cooperation, virtual leadership, online meetings, live-online training, intercultural competence from Gudrun Höhne (Gudrun Hoehne) – the human factor.
Tips for online meetings
In 2020 the Corona crisis has made us meet virtually most of the times. For many companies online meetings were still unusal beginning of 2020. After a while it bacame clear that it is sometimes easier for the IT to provide a tool and basic equipment for online...
Merry Christmas 2019 – Seasons Greetings from the human factor
Video blog: A personal kick-off meeting is a waste of time and money!
Do you lead a virtual team and want to get started with your work asap? You don't want to waste time and money to give your virtual team members room to get to know each other? Well, this is one way of seeing it.... In this video you will learn about the impact of a...
Video blog: Virtual team members just dialing in
Do you lead a virtual team and have regular team meetings in the following scenario: You sit with a big part of your team in a conference room and some remote team members are dialing in - either via telephone or via a web conference tool like Skype for Business,...
Video blog: Conference calls in virtual teams
Do you lead a virtual team and have regular conference calls? Or you use an online meeting tool like Skype for Business or WebEx for your virtual team meetings but you do not share your webcam or anything visual? On the other hand, you certainly want to know how you...
Video blog: No intercultural training in international teams!
Do you lead an international virtual team and would like to know how you can motivate your team members? Why not start by viewing how you could easily demotivate them? Without even recognizing what is wrong. In this short video you will receive a tip how you can...
Video blog: No one-on-one calls with distant team members
You lead a virtual team and would like to know how you can motivate your team members? Why not start by trying not to demotivate them? Here you will receive a tip how you can demotivate the team members who are not located at the same site as you. It is very easy to...
Video blog: Forgetting team members in conference calls and virtual meetings
Would you like to know how to motivate your virtual team? Well, it is much easier to demotivate your virtual team. Here you will receive some tips on how to demotivate your virtual team members very easily. It may happen just be accident. You are the virtual team...
Video blog: No feedback in virtual teams
Would you like to know how to motivate your virtual team? Well, it is much easier to demotivate your virtual team. Here you will receive some tips on how to demotivate your virtual team members very easily. Why is feedback important anyway? And especially in virtual...
Video blog: Native and non-native speakers in virtual teams
In international teams you often have native English speakers and non-native English speakers in a team. The virtual team meetings are often dominated by the native speakers. This is nothing you can change, right? Would you like to know how you can motivate all your...
Video Blog: Kick-off Meetings in virtual teams?
How you can successfully demotivate your virtual team: Just have no kick-off meeting! You would like to know how to motivate your virtual team? Well, why not start first by having a look at how you can demotivate your virtual team. This happens very easily. One tip...
Free Webinar: Leading International Virtual Teams with Online Meetings
On 11 February 2014 there will be a new free webinar on how to moderate online meetings in virtual teams. Thes webinar is for you if you are the team leader of a global virtual team you don't have much experience yet with web meetings you wonder how you can ensure...
A Christmas Party with a Virtual Team?
A Christmas party for a virtual team – are you wondering how can that be organised? Arranging a classical Christmas party of the kind often held in countries with a Christian history is something that may be hard to organise in a virtual team. For one thing, the team...
Team-building in global virtual teams
In modern companies complex tasks are managed in teams, sometimes virtual teams. Why is that? Because the tasks are too complex to be managed by one individual. Most people would agree with the statement that team work is an essential part of today’s business world....