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1. Making Virtual Teams Fly

2. Agenda
1.
Introduction
of Trainer and
6. Participants
2. Blended
Questions
Collaboration
and Answers
3.
5.
Challenges
Tools for
and
Virtual Teams
Constraints
4. Change
Management

3. Who am I?
I have twenty years of experience as a consultant, trainer
and coach, in particular in change management.
Clients: private business, the public sector and non-
governmental organizations, including the development
sector.
Worked in more than 50 countries of Europe, North,
Central and South America, Africa and Asia,
What I care for: creating working environments in which
people want to collaborate and to excel.

4. Who are you? Please write into the
chat box who you are and from where
you call in.

5. Radical Inclusion
Radical Inclusion is an international network of change facilitators, marketing
experts and internet enthusiasts who are dedicated to using online and f2f
facilitation tools to make collaboration more inclusive, persistent, fun and most of
all effective.
7 members:
-West Coast US
-Canada
-Brazil
-Germany
Blended Collaboration

6. The Case for Blended Collaboration
Distributed teams have become
a standard pattern of work.
However, organizations have
not yet mastered to establish
frameworks for
effective collaboration.
Inclusivity is one of the magic
sticks for organizations to
produce better
results and manage the
complexity of our world.

7. What is Blended Collaboration?
Blended collaboration is the combination of skills, practices and tools from
different worlds.
Real time: We interact directly and without time gap.
Near time: We interact whenever convenient but close in time to the
stimulus.
Asynchronous: We interact whenever suitable to our own working
patterns.

8. Discussion (please write in the chat box)
Question 1
What hinders people to effectively collaborate virtually?

9. Discussion (please write in the chat box)
Question 1
What are success factors for effective collaboration?

10. Resistance
Reasons for resistance to effective collaboration:
1. lack of incentives for collaboration
2. Knowledge is an inter-organizational currency
3. Collaboration is a question of trust and loyalty
4. Virtual collaboration is considered as an “IT issue”, and IT
departments are driving the process
5. Physical and virtual collaboration are different
6. Virtual collaboration is considered as a second-hand
substitute for physical
collaboration
7. People (and organizations) just don’t know how to do it

11. Changing attitudes

12. Principles of the Change Journey
All people have concerns, purposes and circumstances that matter to them. If people
feel that their issues are acknowledged and respected, they will support change.
Change has its boundaries and limits. Change is partly given to us, and everything is
not negotiable. There will always be conditions that we need to accept and work
around.
Problems become our friends little by little. We need to start small in the beginning of
our change journey and improve the process along the way.
Everybody needs to become an innovator. Widen the circle of involvement as much as
possible and get people to buy in.
Multilevel communication about change is essential. Connect people to the content of
the change and to each other by virtual and face-to-face means.
www.changejourney.org

13. Radical Inclusion’s
favorite tools
External
RI Blog
Linkedin
Twitter RI Learning Group
Primary Communication Use
FaceBook
RI Fan Page
Skype Voice
Webex
Mindmeister email
Skype Chat
Mikogo
Team Speak PBWorks (Wiki)
Internal
Real Time Communication Information Storage and Sharing

14. Tools we Use
Our water cooler
Our window to
the world
Our drawing room

15. Collaboration in Virtual Teams:
Success Factors
• Others respect my situation
Respect • Others appreciate my competence
• A necessary trust level can be
Trust reached
• …and maintained over time
Balance of • What is in for me?
me and we • Distributed leadership

16. Your questions?

17. An invitation
Experience self-organized virtual collaboration by taking part in our annual
virtual unconference. This year our theme is "Making the Most of
Collaborative Worlds: Physical, Virtual and Blended Collaboration".
This Radical Real-time unconference will take place in different virtual platforms
that offer possibilities to meet both asynchronously and synchronously.
Read more at http://rtvc10.ning.com/

18. How are you now?