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Savings Beyond Price -Weekly eNewsletter - September 4, 2008
Robert T. Yokl
President & Chief Value Strategist
Greetings!
Greetings,
6 Tips on Leading Virtual or Remote Teams
We are finding that more and more our value analysis client’s team members don’t reside in the same building, city or even the same state. A good example of this new emerging trend is one of our clients has 51 locations, with at least a two or three hour traveling distance between their facilities. So how do we and you create truly effective, productive and cohesive teams long-distance?
Here are six tips to smooth the way to keeping your virtual or remote teams engaged, on track, on budget and communicating effectively:
1. Harness Technology to Stay Connected
Technology is the best friend of virtual or remote teams since it keeps them connected, focused and disciplined with their project work. We found that conference calls alone won’t keep your teams focused on their objectives. That’s why we recommend communications portals like www.GoToMeeting.com for the reason that it is easy to use, efficient and inexpensive.
2. Publishes an Agenda to Stay Focused
It’s one thing not to publish an agenda when you are conducting tradition team meetings, but it is mandatory when you are conducting virtual or remote meetings since everyone must be on the same page when you are on-line and in real time.
3. Frequent Meetings Keep Your Team Alert
We recommend two virtual meetings a month to keep your team alert, engaged and on target. Otherwise, they will easily forget about their assignments due to their other heavy workload.
4. Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
Frequent e-mails, phone calls and regular check-ins between meetings are the glue that will hold your virtual or remote team together. The lack of recurrent communications by your team leaders will almost guarantee that your virtual or remote teams will lose interest, momentum and stop working on their projects altogether.
5. Establish Measurable Goals and Objectives
It’s even more important that you have measurable goals and objectives with your virtual or remote teams, than traditional teams, or else you won’t know if your team(s) is on track and on budget with their projects.
6. Gaining Upper Management Support
The best way to gain your upper management support so that they continue to give you the resources, time, staffing and the money that is necessary to conduct your virtual or remote teamwork is to provide them with a monthly report of your quantitative and qualitative results. This way they will know with certainty that your virtual or remote team is meeting their quality and profitability goals for any given period. To do less is to risk having your upper management question the legitimacy, efficacy and productivity of forming these new emerging virtual and remote teams.
It is easy for me to foresee that every healthcare organization, regardless of its size, will be employing virtual and remote teams due to the logistics and prohibitive cost of conducting traditional meetings that every team member can attended without fail. This is now the wave of the future, and we ALL need to master these new competencies to meet the challenges we face in the 21st century.
Your Partner In Savings Beyond Price™,
Robert T Yokl
Chief Value Strategist
Strategic Value Analysis® In Healthcare
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