New video content - organizational videos

Today I launched a new (growing) collection of videos. These videos (will) focus on organizational leadership with an emphasis on virtual teams.

The first video is about the state of virtual teams. The data is a tad old only because 2018 is the most recent year with survey data, but the gist of the content holds true.

I actually had to redo this video. Something happened when Loom processed the first video. Loom processed only 3 minutes of a 30 minute video. I had to redo the recording and ensure the full video was processed correctly.

I’m lining up more video content for the coming days.

Cheers!

Thinking about exploratory work and team adaptation

I was once considered a hardcore raider. I played a warrior tank in vanilla WoW. The guild in which I was a member was the number 1 guild on my server. However, raiding back then was a lot different than it is now. Hardcore raiding involved 40 people. We spent weeks learning and adapting our playstyles to down a single boss. It took a couple of months to clear Molten Core and Black Wing Lair.

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Vituality in Virtual Teams

Virtuality is an important characteristic of virtual teams. Virtuality describes the distance between team members and the level of reliance on technology platforms to do work. Virtuality does impact team outcomes and can be influenced by team members' skill with particular platforms and the routines that organize the use of such platforms.

 

For more on information on virtuality see:

Foster, M. K., Abbey, A., Callow, M. A., Zu, X., & Wilbon, A. D. (2015). Rethinking virtuality and its impact on teams.... Small Group Research, 46(3), 267-299. doi:10.1177/1046496415573795