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		<title>7 Steps to Global Virtual Conference Calls</title>
		<link>http://lisasymons.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/7-steps-to-global-virtual-conference-calls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you set up your meetings, there is a standard structure that your virtual team should follow.  If you establish it and follow it each time, then everyone will come to expect it and will benefit from it.  1.    If you use a Net meeting or other technical tools, ensure everyone has the access and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisasymons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3678082&amp;post=39&amp;subd=lisasymons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pictures are worth more than words</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When forming a global team, it is important to have "picture" of team members in your mind. Generally, we like to visualize people and have a closer connection to them when we can "see" them. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisasymons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3678082&amp;post=38&amp;subd=lisasymons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Virtual Team Getting Summer Fever?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 03:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About this time of year, I have trouble getting things done. Work that I usually complete in an hour or two can take all morning &#8211; it then makes me want to get even less done. Do you have this problem? Ever? Honest? Ok, Seriously, it is hard to not have periods where focus is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisasymons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3678082&amp;post=35&amp;subd=lisasymons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making it Work Virtually with Japan</title>
		<link>http://lisasymons.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/making-it-work-virtually-with-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 00:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisasymons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Virtual Team Training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever spend an hour on the telephone and not understand one word of the conversation? This happens to me &#8211; frequently actually. The sad part, these are my meetings. I&#8217;m talking about the hard part of virtual teams. I like to use this space to talk about how virtual teams work together. One group that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisasymons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3678082&amp;post=34&amp;subd=lisasymons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Avoid &#8220;dead&#8221; air Time with Virtual Teams</title>
		<link>http://lisasymons.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/dont-avoid-dead-air-time-with-virtual-teams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 15:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisasymons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Draw out participants who are quiet.  If you have a team of 10 or 12 people and you have three or four who do most of the talking, ask the other participants specific questions.  If they’re from a culture where that’s going to make them more uncomfortable, and be aware of that, then tell them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisasymons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3678082&amp;post=33&amp;subd=lisasymons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are Virtual Teams?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtual teams are part of most organizations today.  A virtual team consists of people not just across town, but across the country or the world.  Many people work remote or they can work in an office across the country, or the world.  There are many benefits to virtual teams.  These include getting the very best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisasymons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3678082&amp;post=15&amp;subd=lisasymons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond virtual teams &#8211; Retaining top talent</title>
		<link>http://lisasymons.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/beyond-virtual-teams-retaining-top-talent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisasymons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Companies are finding it takes more than a flexible work schedule to hire and retain top talent. This except from the Economic Times states the challenges of creating virtual teams and finding talent to manage them:   One example of such a redefinition, or transformation , was described by Randy MacDonald, senior vice president for HR at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisasymons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3678082&amp;post=14&amp;subd=lisasymons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Before Selecting The Virtual Team Members</title>
		<link>http://lisasymons.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/before-selecting-the-core-team-members/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[•          Before you select the team -           –         Determine the key skills necessary for the project. How many are independent skills or can be grouped? Build a matrix of required and “nice to have” skills.–         Review your internal candidates to determine where they fit in the matrix above. Can they fill more than one role? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisasymons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3678082&amp;post=13&amp;subd=lisasymons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Groups Better at Brainstorming</title>
		<link>http://lisasymons.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/virtual-groups-better-at-brainstorming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[researchers found that virtual groups, where people brainstormed individually, generated nearly twice as many ideas as the real groups. The result, it turned out, is not an anomaly. In a [1987 study, researchers] concluded that brainstorming groups have never outperformed virtual groups. Of the 25 reported experiments by psychologists all over the world, real groups [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisasymons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3678082&amp;post=12&amp;subd=lisasymons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Formation of Trust in Virtual Teams = It&#8217;s About Reliability, Stupid</title>
		<link>http://lisasymons.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/formation-of-trust-in-virtual-teams-its-about-reliability-stupid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lisasymons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; This finding resonates with this virtual worker &#8230; &#8220;It may be that trust is simply built via different mechanisms in virtual teams. After a few studies on this issue, research suggests that trust in virtual teams depends largely upon reliability. When virtual team members feel they can count on one another to do what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisasymons.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3678082&amp;post=11&amp;subd=lisasymons&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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