Virtual teams are now officially the way of things. Nevertheless, everything about such projects or operations is more difficult than face-to-face teams. The people of virtual teams are dispersed geographically, they meet infrequently or never, and they might even come from different cultures. And these three factors conspire to make what's usually easy, difficult — and what's usually difficult, impossible.

This webinar by Rick Brenner will help people who sponsor, lead or participate in virtual organizations by focusing on communication within global and distributed teams.

Learning Objectives: Building and maintaining trust; Planning communications for dispersion; Accounting for socio-cultural, linguistic and political differences; Allocating the work with dispersion in mind; Dealing with telemeetings, voicemail and email in virtual teams; Making face-to-face meetings count.

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This webinar is produced by CAI's IT Metrics and Productivity Institute. All Institute webinars are free of charge and are accredited with PDU codes by the PMI. For the Institute's full webinar schedule for 2008, please visit www.itmpi.org/webinars. For Institute events, please visit www.itmpi.org/events.

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