18 Sep Do You Have What it Takes to Lead a Virtual Team?

Posted at 15:00h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Mentoring, Recognition, Strategy, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

Not all managers are cut out for leading a team they don’t see face-to-face every day. But more and more organizations are turning to virtual (distributed) teams to get work done. I cover this in detail in my new book, Virtual Teams for Dummies. In this...

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13 Sep Are You a Boss….Or a Leader?

Posted at 00:38h in Coaching, Creativity, Culture, DiSC, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy, Team Trust, Virtual Teams by Tara Powers 0 Comments

You got the title, the business card, maybe even the corner office. Well done! You have all the trappings of a leader. You have a “seat at the table,” as they say. You’ve earned this, right? Yes, probably. But here’s the hard truth – your work...

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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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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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22 Jun 2018 Woman to Watch from ColoradoBiz Magazine

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Summer is off to a great start at Powers Resource Center! I am proud to announce that I was chosen by ColoradoBiz Magazine as a 2018 Woman to Watch. You can view my ColoradoBiz Magazine profile article here. In the profile piece, I talk about the things...

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20 Jun What Do ‘The Incredibles’ and DiSC® Have in Common? A Ton!

Posted at 13:04h in Coaching, Creativity, Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Recognition, Strategy by Tara Powers 0 Comments

Around my house, there is a lot of excitement for the new Incredibles movie coming out this summer. My daughters and I loved the first one, with its funny and powerful family of superheroes taking on supervillains. The sequel to the first movie will be out...

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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, 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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22 Mar Trust Means Everything to Your Business

Posted at 20:37h in Culture, Engagement, Leadership, Strategy, Team Trust by Tara Powers 0 Comments

“Trust each other again and again. When the trust level gets high enough, people transcend apparent limits, discovering new and awesome abilities for which they were previously unaware.”  – David Armistead “Trust is the denominator of efficiency.” I heard this quote from a company leader that...

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