Extreme virtual teaming

Travel and budgets needed to support it is an ongoing area of disagreement in forming virtual teams. This episode discusses the view points The post The role of travel in building and maintaining virtual teams appeared first on ULFIRE.

Workplaces should embrace the benefits that come from allowing their personnel to work from home rather than forcing a return to the office The post Should employees be expected to return to the office appeared first on ULFIRE.

Pets are a huge part of so many people's lives as companions and family members, the question then is do they have a place on work videocalls The post Do pets have a place on work from home calls appeared first on ULFIRE.

Great teams rely on their people working and communicating openly and effectively, technology should always be seen as the enabler not the solution The post A people first approach to modern virtual teams appeared first on ULFIRE.

Modern project virtual teams have evolved into incredibly complex constellations of individuals requiring carefully planned communications. The post Extreme virtual teaming appeared first on ULFIRE.

I am going to start this with a confession – I am, in several ways, an Introvert. This may come as a shock to some who know me, but functionally I am very much an introvert. I get tired quickly when I spend time around people and need peace to recharge and recover, I also like to have time to myself during the work day. Unlike many of my extrovert friends and colleagues, I am not always comfortable picking up the phone to ring people either. That said, my introversion is relatively small and balanced by me being comfortable speaking to large groups – hence things like podcasts – similarly I am comfortable with media engagement and many of the other things that terrify others and equally terrified a younger version of me. Introverts and extroverts come in all shapes and sizes, there are the extremes of both scales, people who are highly introverted will on occasion struggle to engage in even simple one on one conversations and anything larger can induce a sense of panic and fatigue. Similarly extreme extroverts can rely so much on external stimulation to charge their batteries they end up draining everyone else around them. […] The post Can introverts really work in virtual teams? appeared first on ULFIRE.

Over the past 15 years there has been a significant shift in the structure of virtual teams, predominantly driven by increasing work from home. While many things have changed the fundamentals of supporting the team remain the same The post So what is modern work from home? appeared first on ULFIRE.

Several years now after the enforced remote and virtual team work of the COVID years and returning to the podcast after a few years break I want to think about what we have learned. Are we better than we were before or are we just doing remote work more. All in all I believe things have drifted back to more or less where we were before COVID, yes, we are talking on Teams and Zoom more than we were on the virtual platforms available before COVID, BUT, we still have not really embedded the value of remote work into our workflows. Teams are still encouraged to work colocated, travel is if anything even harder to get approved, and remote work is seen as much as a lifestyle enabler, which is wonderful, as it is a way to improve the overall outcomes in workplaces and projects. Now that I am back at least, I will try to dig a bit deeper into some of the ways the workplace continues to evolve in future episodes of the podcast. The post Back after an extended break – what have we learned? appeared first on ULFIRE.

This episode is a podcast conversation with Sharon Koifman of Distant Jobs, Sharon is a remote working expert and shared many great thoughts to make remote work better for all involved The post Conversation with Sharon Koifman, remote work expert appeared first on ULFIRE.

In this episode I consider the need to establish some boundaries in your work from home workplace and how and how frequently we communicate with colleagues. This would include finding a place at home to establish your workplace, how you dress for working from home, putting some sensible boundaries around your time spent working from home and managing the volume of video and phone meetings we are all seeing a surge in.