{"id":20286,"date":"2010-06-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/83-now-work-in-virtual-or-cross-functional-teams\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T13:39:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:39:25","slug":"83-now-work-in-virtual-or-cross-functional-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/83-now-work-in-virtual-or-cross-functional-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"83% now work in virtual or cross-functional teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashridge.org.uk\/Website\/IC.nsf\/wFARATT\/The%20Ashridge%20Management%20Index%202010\/$File\/AMIReport2010.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ashridge-index-2010-330x183.jpg\" alt=\"ashridge index 2010\" width=\"330\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>New research published by Ashridge Business School in their Ashridge Management Index\u00a0(2010)\u00a0shows <strong>83%<\/strong> of respondents are managing or working in <a title=\"cross functional and virtual teams\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/training-for-virtual-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cross-functional and virtual teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This way of working is now commonplace &#8211; it is the new &#8216;normal&#8217; way of working.<\/p>\n<p>However, less than half felt their organization provides sufficient support for virtual working (only 33% in public sector).<\/p>\n<p>We have been running virtual teams training for 16 years now after pioneering virtual teams training, yet we still see many organizations who do not reflect this reality in their team training, or have programs that are basic teamwork skills unchanged since the 70&#8217;s with a couple of slides added on working through technology.<\/p>\n<p>Virtual teams are more than this, and demand different tools and mindsets. Surely it&#8217;s about time our skills caught up with the reality of this &#8216;normal&#8217; way of working?<\/p>\n<p>Not addressing these skills could lead to high levels of frustration, staff attrition and inefficiency. So why is training to cope with this new way of working given such low priority by so many?<\/p>\n<p>(Global Integration even has <a title=\"team bernchmarking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/training-for-virtual-teams\/benchmarking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the tools to benchmark your team&#8217;s performance<\/a>. Call us to find out more.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Updated January 2013 (links and punctuation \u00a0updated)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research published by Ashridge Business School in their Ashridge Management Index shows 83% of respondents are managing or working in cross-functional and virtual teams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","type-blog","training-virtual-teams"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>83% now work in virtual or cross-functional teams - Global Integration<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New research published by Ashridge Business School in their Ashridge Management Index shows 83% of respondents are managing or working in cross-functional and virtual teams\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/83-now-work-in-virtual-or-cross-functional-teams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"83% now work in virtual or cross-functional teams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New research published by Ashridge Business School in their Ashridge Management Index shows 83% of respondents are managing or working in cross-functional and virtual teams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/83-now-work-in-virtual-or-cross-functional-teams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Global Integration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-06-07T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-05-11T13:39:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/ashridge-index-2010-330x183.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kevan Hall\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kevan Hall\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/83-now-work-in-virtual-or-cross-functional-teams\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/83-now-work-in-virtual-or-cross-functional-teams\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kevan Hall\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3ad6577af9c33612e410fbcdc3ff2a9a\"},\"headline\":\"83% now work in virtual or cross-functional teams\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-06-07T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-11T13:39:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/83-now-work-in-virtual-or-cross-functional-teams\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":208,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/83-now-work-in-virtual-or-cross-functional-teams\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/06\\\/ashridge-index-2010-330x183.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/83-now-work-in-virtual-or-cross-functional-teams\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/83-now-work-in-virtual-or-cross-functional-teams\\\/\",\"name\":\"83% now work in virtual or cross-functional teams - 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