Working Together Apart

Telework Management

How do you "Work Together Apart"? In the transition from "site" to "virtual" management, new issues and skills emerge. How do we make the technology work FOR US, instead of working to overcome the technology?

Tele-team Building - Create a virtual community on-line. Here is one way to create a village.
E-mail Management Techniques - Struggling with more e-mail than you can handle? Or less results than you want?
Management Candidates for Telework Teams - Telework Management is not Site Management . The skills required are different. Our training program makes a difference!
Database, CRM, Knowledge Management Tools - Roll-out your tools and create a dynamic environment instead of arriving DOA. It ain't a hardware or software problem, it's a people problem. Start with these steps for a strong roll out.

The transition from site to virtual management is like learning to ride a bike. At first the techniques are disquieting, then, the elements are mastered, and finally, the process fades into the background, "Oh yeah, I guess I forgot I was on a bike."

Laura Ricci began experimenting with long distance communication in 1991 when time-sensitive projects required multi-office team management and voicemail was the best available asynchronous tool. For an international firm, Laura both developed protocols for long distance project management and identified prospects for retraining from site to virtual management. The team she created performs globally and shares work, passing tasks from one time zone to another, with 3 shifts of work on each task, each 24 hour period.

She works with organizations including Johnson Wax Professional, and The Gas Technology Institute to identify, train and coach managers working with virtual teams.

If your firm is ready to work on the Virtual side, contact me to help!

Laura Ricci at NASA

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The Ricci family has been consulting and supporting success for hundreds of years.

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