How can virtual teams improve your bottom line?
The Challenge
If like many organizations and team leaders you find yourself supervising a newly virtual team, take a half hour to brainstorm some of the ways you could take advantage of this setup to accomplish your team's goals in a different way than expected. Be creative! Some examples might include forming teams that work at different hours of the day, re-starting projects that were previously rejected due to travel costs, or including people with mobility limitations or disabilities in work they may normally not have been able to do when it was on site.
Why do this?
Having virtual teams makes it possible to create a much more flexible environment than we could have previously imagined.
Thinking strategically and creatively about how you can use this flexibility to your advantage can pay off in an increase in team morale and productivity.
What’s next?
Pick the best idea you came up with and write down some information on what it would take to make it a reality, along with a list of the benefits that would be gained by implementing it.
