Poor management, communications breakdowns, unsuitable or badly integrated team members, ill-equipped staff, personality clashes — there are many reasons why a virtual team can fail. What can you do to ensure that your team succeeds? Here are five common failings of virtual teams, and ways to avoid them. MORE >>

When you work with a new team for the first time, especially if your colleagues are located in different cities across the globe, you’ll be sending important information to them without knowing much about them personally. Teams with low initial trust lacked this enthusiasm. How do you encourage trust in your remote teams? MORE >>

Binfire offers distributed teams a free solution for online collaboration that makes it simple to stay on track. On top of these helpful features, here are a few of the other things you can do with Binfire: Communicate with Your Team. The quick status updating feature makes it possible for team members to keep each other in the loop. MORE >>

Until now, many of us have seen the question of branding as two-dimensional: we have a personal brand, or a business brand. Would it be possible, for example, for us to use personal brands to enhance the business brand? Personal-Corporate Branding in Action. Uncategorized personal brandingBut is that all there is? MORE >>

As a manager you may be willing to hire the best talent for your team no matter where they’re located, but how do you go about determining if a potential hire is, in fact, excellent? You may also learn about other tools they’ve used that can be of value to your existing team. Handily, there are questions that can help. MORE >>