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7 Great Ways to Manage Virtual Teams

December 5, 2019

by Sabareesan Arulkumar It’s nothing new. Remote work is the trend of the future. 31% of American employees prefer to work remotely most of the time. And why wouldn’t they? Working remotely can reduce stress, increase productivity and improve work-life balance. However, while remote work can have numerous perks for workers and team managers, it...

June 11, 2019

by Linda Parker Does your company allow you to work from home? Do you have the flexibility of picking working hours of your own choice? Are you a night owl stuck working the day shift? Well the advents in tech are changing all the things we dread about the office faster than you can imagine....

May 9, 2019

by Becka Singler Advances in business technology have made it possible to work from places other than the office. As both workers and managers navigate these new remote work capabilities, benefits and challenges have emerged. One of the biggest challenges has proven to be how to manage these remote workers. Managing remote employees can feel...

April 25, 2019

by Anton Mishchenko When you hear the phrase “remote team”, you may think of companies that have a centralized office and offshore teams. You may also think of firms that have switched from being colocated to a remote collaboration model. But what if a business has been virtual since day one? Yes, such companies exist....

April 2, 2019

by Ester Brierley When it comes to choosing an office space, modern business owners and entrepreneurs have many options available. Not only can they choose traditional office solutions, but they can also choose relatively new ones, such as co-working spaces and virtual offices. These two types of office spaces can be a better solution for...

March 19, 2019

by Sandra Moncada Successful remote workers go about their day quite differently than those who work in office settings. This requires a vastly different managerial style to help encourage them to do their best. I‘ve had both remote worker and manager positions, and here are my eight personal do’s and don’ts of managing a remote...

October 30, 2018

by Riya Sander As businesses grow to achieve an international presence, more daunting challenges are presenting themselves on the table for workers and managers alike. Managers are particularly finding themselves unable to cope with the challenges of managing remote employees. On the other hand, workers are being forced to adopt the concept of being remotely...

January 29, 2018

by Molood Noori Alavijeh Should remote teams be discouraged or tolerated?! As I work with IT companies most of the time, I get asked this question a lot by managers in those companies, especially if the company is transforming to agile ways of working. To those of you who know me and/or have attended the...

January 11, 2018

by Devin Morrissey Remote work and flexible working arrangements are gaining traction in the mainstream workforce. Previously labelled unconventional or alternative, remote work arrangements are forcing businesses to reimagine what normal looks like and change the way teams are managed. Unfortunately, not all businesses are providing programs of the same quality. In some environments, remote...

December 29, 2017

by Mary Walton How many times during your career have you heard that communication is the key to success? Working in an office, this is all well and good, but when it comes to managing remote teams, how can you boost communication when you’re never in the same room together? Today, we’ll explore seven keys ways...

September 19, 2016

by Lisette Sutherland Technology is making the traditional 9-to-5 grind less necessary. Mobile devices, centralized data, and all kinds of apps and software are helping us stay connected wherever we are. So naturally, this creates new possibilities for increased work–life freedom, as more and more of us can work remotely. In the past, when we...

December 11, 2015

by Louise Brace Our colleague and friend, Lisette Sutherland of Collaboration Superpowers is an expert on the subject of working from anywhere. She demonstrates through her podcasts and workshops, just how easy it is to work outside of the traditional office environment with all of today’s super tools we have at our fingertips. As it becomes...

November 30, 2015

by Pilar Orti Trello has become a very popular project management tool with both collocated and virtual teams. I have been using Trello for a while now, mainly to organise my projects (and my thoughts) and to co-ordinate with other freelancers. What I hadn’t realised was the potential this tool has to help a team...

September 7, 2015

by Louise Brace So I’ve been working on this remote working team for nine months now and our team is pretty tight. Some of us are more online and virtually engaged than others, but we all get together at least once a week, normally twice and that includes our weekly Kitten Talk, where we drop...

August 26, 2015

by Jurgen Appelo Editor’s Note: This blog was written when Management 3.0’s parent company was called Happy Melly One and when we had launched an experimental project called Happy Melly, which focused on happiness at work. Today Happy Melly has been absorbed by Management 3.0, which is part of the Happy Melly Group. No matter...

August 12, 2015

by Lisette Sutherland Last week, the Management 3.0 Team had a team retrospective… remotely, of course. We recently changed the way we organize ourselves–from a team of nine that met regularly to splitting into four different crews that met at different times. We did this because we need to scale, and even though we’re a...

June 12, 2015

by Lisette Sutherland Each team has a unique way of communicating. And each team has a particular combination of personality types. Just like an orchestra tunes up before a performance, or an athlete warms up before a practice, tuning a virtual team helps get everyone on the same page. In many of my interviews with...

January 30, 2015

by Jennifer Riggins Just like reality TV killed the video star, the rise of flexible working, if welcomed with open but skeptical arms, is likely to kill the nine-to-five office grind. Except for surgeons, construction workers, beauticians and a couple of other hands-on jobs, why is it mandatory to be at a certain place at...

November 25, 2014

by Vasco Duarte Happy Melly is a worldwide network of businesses and we always like to work with the best. If you’re committed to our purpose, you can even live on Antarctica for all we care. (Or Honolulu of course) As you can imagine, we do a lot of our communications virtually. Skype calls, Hangouts,...

August 18, 2014

by Vasco Duarte Last week my ghostwriter and I had a heated discussion about offices. On this blog we always write about remote working, and we tell people that work is ‘something you do, not a place you go to’. (Our lovely board member Lisette even wrote The Ultimate Recipe For Remote Working) And then that loser...

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7 Great Ways to Manage Virtual Teams

December 5, 2019

How Far Are We from having Efficient Virtual Workspaces?

June 11, 2019

Managing Remote Workers, How Can We Maximize Productivity?

May 9, 2019

Remote-First Business: Is It Worth a Shot?

April 25, 2019

Virtual Office vs. Coworking Space: What You Should Choose

April 2, 2019

8 Remote Team Leadership DO’s and DONT’s

March 19, 2019

How to Effectively Manage Remote Employees in Multi-Locations

October 30, 2018

Self-leadership skills required for a remote team

January 29, 2018

Four tips to establish your value as a remote worker

January 11, 2018

How to boost communication when managing remote teams

December 29, 2017

Remote Work: Find Happiness at Work From Anywhere

September 19, 2016

Work from anywhere and travel the world on a workcation

December 11, 2015

How Trello Can Help Your Team Self-Organise

November 30, 2015

Virtual Ice, Ice Breakers

September 7, 2015

The All-Hands Meeting (or… Zoo Time!)

August 26, 2015

Remote Team Retrospectives For Happier Teams

August 12, 2015

Creating agreements with your remote team

June 12, 2015

Will Flexible Working Kill the Office Star?

January 30, 2015

Do Virtual Teams Have More Conflicts?

November 25, 2014

Remote working, virtual office or Workplace 1: What do you prefer?

August 18, 2014