Effectively Managing the Virtual Workforce
April 2006
Managing Virtual Teams: Challenges & Strategies
Virtual teams are a business reality. How can organizations make small shifts in their paradigm of traditional supervision and management processes to use the virtual work environment to their advantage?
Mar 27, 2006 - OI Partners
Gartner EXP Says Companies Need to Change Management Practices to Build an Effective Virtual Workforce
Virtual working has become the reality of business today, however many organizations will fail to adopt management practices and processes to yield maximum results from a virtual workforce strategy, according to Gartner Executive Programs (EXP), a unit of Gartner Inc. "The need for business growth and tapping into the talent ...
Feb 13, 2006 - Business Wire
Confessions of a Full-Time Telecommuter
THIRTEEN YEARS AGO, I embarked on a personal and professional adventure when I accepted a job in the Boston area while living in California, with the intention of telecommuting full time. The forward-thinking company that hired me (which happens to publish this newspaper) recognized that it could hire the best people if it cast its hiring net nationally. Now, of course, telecommuting is a norm and ...
Feb 27, 2006 - Computerworld
Effective Virtual Relationships: Successful Traits in Employees & Supervisors
It is becoming somewhat common for even workers in traditional work settings to participate in a few virtual team projects during the course of business. How can supervisors recognize and nurture individual traits that develop an employee's potential to work virtually?
Mar 27, 2006 - OI Partners
Telecommuters say it's great for them -- and their boss
Imagine being on a Hawaii vacation and stepping onto the hotel balcony to watch the sun rise over the Pacific. Then the phone rings. It's a co-worker from the mainland. Ready for the conference call? It happened to Darlene Frudakis, president of PetAg Inc., a Hampshire, Ill.-based pet food maker. Even more surprising was Frudakis's reaction. "It was just a fabulous feeling," said Frudakis, a ...
Mar 20, 2006 - Buffalo News
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