First week of 2009 and I had an epiphany already!
I am looking into leading virtual teams. I am studying how to use social media (a.k.a. web 2.0) to create a community online.
Guess what?
The process is the same.
Learn how to use social media (blogging, Twitter, FaceBook) and you learn the skills to succeed in virtual teams.
Learn how to create a tribe online and you learn how to lead a virtual team.
Why is this important?
- If I can show you how to use social media (I will),
- if I can show you how this is related to virtual teaming (I surely will), and
- if we TOGETHER can create a community (you and me, yay!) …
… we teach each other how to work successfully in a virtual, global and multi-cultural environment!
Believe me, the amount of different nationalities active on this site is huge. There are enough of us “out there”.
Snif.
And this is just the first week of 2009.
How Does This Relate To The Bigger Picture You Are Painting?
For those of you who are looking for the bigger picture: please read my posting about Structure For Resilience. In it I describe how a team should be structured to adapt successfully to changes in the environment:
“Role Of Project Manager:
Bootstrap identity and culture
Nurture identity and culture
My epiphany relates to bootstrapping and nurturing group identity and culture.
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Not so fast… Is your epiphany great insight? Sure.
There is however, a disconnect. Money/Reward and/or compensation.
This element requires a different vantage point.
-ski
Hi Jeff, Thanks for contributing on the site.. you are quite right. I think the elements of reward systems should be included more explicitly. At this moment I am only considering emotional needs, as I explained in this article from over a year ago
“People have physical or material needs, think about food, a roof above their heads, or may be some kind of transportation. Although once in a while I will come back to this needs, they will not be my main focus. I assume that in the context of software projects, people are not dying of hunger or are homeless. The center of my attention are emotional needs. “
http://blog.softwareprojects.org/individual-beh...
What do you think? Do you have a suggestion which “theory” to consider?
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