ASTD Survey: 40% of Global Team Underperform
NEW YORK, NY – May 24, 2010 – According to a study released today, 80% of corporate managers work virtually at least part of the time and 63% are members of global virtual teams. The key factors that impair productivity are: cultural differences, communication styles, time-zone differences, language and a lack of face-to-face contact, according to the Virtual Teams Survey Report 2010 – The Challenges of Working in Virtual Teams, conducted by RW3 CultureWizard, an intercultural training consultancy specializing in online intercultural training for global business managers.
Get the report from ASTD.
Posted by Kristin
Good Seth Godin post on email!
Execution in a Whirlwind
Good stuff from Franklin Covey on how to execute on goals.
Make Employee Performance Reviews Less Stressful
Posted by Toni Bowers on January 5th, 2010 on TechRepublic.com > IT Leadership
The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Getting Off Your Butt To Listen to Employees
Great post on Fistfull of Talent blog about managers getting out from behind the desk and actually interacting with employees. Huh? That’s crazy talk! 
Mr. Anderson
Pressure is on for engineers to communicate face-to-face
MIT created this undergraduate program focused on “people skills” in response to industry pressures to produce engineers who are as skilled at communicating face-to-face as they are at writing complicated computer codes on their own.
A great industry example of why the courses in myLearning are VERY applicable to your job!
Read the report here.
It’s Not The Spoon That Bends
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