Virtual Teams – Establishing Trust Is Key to Successful Teamwork
Yesterday I created a weblog entry where I mentioned how crucial it is for teams and communities to realise the true power of both humour (having fun at work) and trust, specially, next to social capital, in order to create and sustain a healthy working environment for everyone to collaborate successfully with one another.
So with all that said and talking further about powerful ways of building up your trust and social capital skills in a distributed or virtual team I thought you folks would find the following article quite an interesting read: Virtual Teams – Establishing Trust Is Key to Successful Teamwork. Probably one of the best reads there is that will show you how you can continue nurturing those trust and social capital skills based on three different questions:
As I said, if you are looking for a great article on how you can make the most out of building and nurturing your trust and social capital skills I can certainly recommend Virtual Teams – Establishing Trust Is Key to Successful Teamwork, or, even better, the actual report from where that article originates: Trust Building by Peter Andrews. A must-read for sure.
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[...] Not long ago I created a couple of weblog posts around the topic of virtual teams and how to make them much more productive while sharing knowledge and collaborating with one another without having a significant impact in their performance. Back then, I mentioned how trust and fun can certainly improve things to help those distributed teams become much more efficient and effective while performing a specific job. However, that may not be good enough. [...]
[...] Continuing further with the topic of Team-Building Key for the Virtual WorkPlace and touching specifically on the topic of trust I thought I would share with you, folks, one of those presentations that after you watch it it makes you think about the subject presented in a new and refreshing way and certainly will not leave you static any longer. [...]
[...] Over the last couple of weeks you have seen how in a couple of times I have been talking about the importance of social capital and trust in order to help organisations succeed in providing the value add not only to their customers but also to their own employees. Both social capital and trust are the key and crucial components that would make teams, specially virtual teams, stick with one another in order to provide the best atmosphere to get peers to collaborate with one another. [...]
Hi There,
I am responsible for the HR Strategy for a team in Australia/New Zealand that by nature, is virtual and we struggle with high attrition rates due to climate and morale issues. I am very interested to hear more about humour at work, trust building, ’social capital’ “Virtual Teams – Establishing Trust Is Key to Successful Teamwork”. I am far from being Blog savvy, so please excuse my ignorance, as I seek more information on this topic . I look forward to continuing the discussion.