23 Aug Are You Ready for the ‘Biggest Driver of Transformation’ in the Workplace?

Posted at 01:00h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, News, Recognition, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

According to the World Economic Forum, telework is “one of the biggest drivers of transformation” in the workplace. This is not news to me. I noticed the explosive growth of virtual teams in my own business years ago. Time after time I watched as companies used...

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16 Aug Virtual Teams for Dummies is Out!

Posted at 10:37h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, News, Recognition, Strategy, Team Trust, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

July 31 was a very special day for me – it was the day that my book, Virtual Teams for Dummies, was finally released! It’s the latest title in the popular Dummies series for Wiley Publishing. It was many months of research, writing and editing, but...

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08 Aug It’s a Small World After All — Leveraging the Power of Global Virtual Teams

Posted at 23:46h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, News, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

As part of my research for my upcoming book Virtual Teams for Dummies (out July 31, 2018 and available now on Amazon, I’ve been talking to many leaders about the unique challenges of managing global virtual teams. The benefits of bringing together people from many different...

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25 Jul The New Rules of Virtual Meeting Etiquette

Posted at 00:30h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

Just because you work from home doesn’t mean you can slack on professionalism. You can easily fall into a too-casual trap when your commute is a short walk from your kitchen to your home office. I know this temptation well because I’ve worked from a...

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27 Jun A Brief History of Virtual Teams

Posted at 08:14h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

You probably think that the concept of virtual teams is relatively new – but you’d only be partly right. Sure, technological advances, the Internet, and the global workforce created conditions for virtual teams to explode in recent years, but they have been around for centuries. I’ve...

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04 Apr Company Culture on Virtual Teams: How To Feel Part of It All

Posted at 01:50h in Creativity, Culture, Engagement, Leadership, Mentoring, Recognition, Strategy, Uncategorized, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

It’s one thing to create an atmosphere of trust and camaraderie between employees when they’re all in the same building for eight hours a day. But what about when teams work virtually and they rarely see their coworkers, if at all? How can you keep...

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10 Jan Top 6 Predictors of Virtual Team Success

Posted at 13:38h in Coaching, Creativity, Culture, Engagement, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

If you follow my blog, you know that virtual team success is one of my top areas of focus. I’ve been researching the challenges of participating and leading virtual teams for more than a year and I’ll soon be releasing my Executive Summary and white...

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14 Dec Share your Holiday Traditions!

Posted at 13:26h in Creativity, Culture, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

The holiday season is all about traditions. Traditions are important because they connect us to our loved ones and our community in a very real and meaningful way. Often times we have taken on the traditions we learned as children, or we are creating new...

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05 Dec Virtual Team Holiday Party Ideas!

Posted at 01:58h in Creativity, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy, Team Trust, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

Just because you lead – or work on – a virtual team, it doesn’t mean you can’t have some social time with your colleagues. With the holidays coming, most teams who share office space are busy planning happy hours or dinner parties. Teams who connect...

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01 Mar Avoid These Roadblocks to Virtual Teams Success

Posted at 13:53h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Leadership, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

Virtual teams cut across the boundaries of time, space, culture and sometimes organizations – and chances are, you work on one. It is also likely that you, your teammates and your team leader have been given little to no preparation to work in this complex...

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