{"id":20898,"date":"2017-03-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/global2020prd.wpengine.com\/insights\/too-much-virtual-teamwork\/"},"modified":"2020-05-11T13:51:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:51:23","slug":"too-much-virtual-teamwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/too-much-virtual-teamwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Virtual Teamwork?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VWS-sml.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Virtual Working Summit&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"59\" \/>Earlier this year Kevan Hall participated in the <a title=\"Virtual Working Summit\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/blog\/virtual-working-summit-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virtual Working Summit<\/a>, organized by Penny Pullan. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here we extract some of the discussion in the first of three blog posts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many organizations today are using virtual teams and matrix structures to cut across the traditional vertical silos of function and geography. As a result, many more people are working on multiple teams, and have colleagues and even bosses in different locations, cultures and time zones: the cost and complexity of cooperation has increased.<\/p>\n<p>Many organizations find that this has actually led to more poor quality meetings, conference calls and emails. In fact, our virtual team survey of about 4,000 people found that people are now part of an average of five teams and they\u2019re spending on average a day a week in unnecessary cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s 20 percent of people\u2019s time!\u00a0Or nine years of your life \u2013 and in some weeks you feel you\u2019ve had the lot, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<p>The real challenge is: how do we become more connected \u2013 as we need to be virtually \u2013 but at the same time, how do we stay effective and make our communication and our cooperation engaging and interesting?<\/p>\n<p>I challenge the assumption that teamwork is always the best way to get things done. We\u2019re obsessed with it, but I contend that there are some simpler, faster ways of getting things done that work more effectively through <a title=\"team work training\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/virtual-team-working\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">virtual working<\/a>. \u00a0And of course, if you\u2019re <a title=\"leader of global teams\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/virtual-team-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leading a global team<\/a> the barrier becomes much higher. My first team meetings were down the hall in an office in London: it was no big deal if it was a lousy meeting as it was 30 minutes long and there were no transaction costs.<\/p>\n<p>Today, if I spend $100,000 of my own money getting people together for a meeting and it\u2019s poor quality, I\u2019m going to be pretty disappointed (especially as I am Yorkshireman !).<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Hear the full interview here: <a title=\"Virtual working\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/articles\/virtual-work-summit-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virtual Working Summit<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year Kevan Hall participated in the Virtual Working Summit, organized by Penny Pullan. 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