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

Make Employee Performance Reviews Less Stressful

 Posted by Toni Bowers on January 5th, 2010 on  TechRepublic.com > IT Leadership

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-manager/?p=2750&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techrepublic%2Ftech-manager+%28TechRepublic+Tech+Manager%29

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.

You Don’t Know How to E-Mail

I’d say my biggest gripe at the office is our persistent and abundant inability to effectively communicate via e-mail.  I say “our” because I’m guilty of this, too. Two things got me thinking about this today:

1. I received an email with a blank subject line
2. Then I received an email sharing Erik Goodlad’s “5 min/20 Slides” presentation at Ignite Boise about managing emails

Hear me for a minute: if you’re swamped with emails, so are your co-workers, manager, and most importantly… your clients and subject matter experts.  By following some of the tips from Mike Song’s book, The Hamster Revolution, you’ll communicate better and do a better job managing your emails.

Check out Erik’s presentation, too:

Four Things Every Employee Wants to Know

If you’re striving to be the best manager/coach/mentor/leader you can be, you don’t need to overcomplicate your life trying to achieve this.  All Things Workplace gives you four simple things to think about — and if you can do these for your employees, you’ll achieve your goals.

http://www.allthingsworkplace.com/2009/10/the-four-things-every-employee-wants-to-know.html