Our thought leadership in blogs and podcasts

  • Webmeetings and humor
    Humor can be a terrific tool for helping a team come together. It can also be seen as cruel, cutting or disrespectful. And as someone who spent 15 years as a professional stand-up comic, I think I know when and how humor is appropriate and when it's not.
  • Asking questions, getting answers
    It can be a real problem in meetings getting quality input from participants. How can you ensure that people contribute their wisdom when it's most needed? One way to do this is to have a questioning strategy.
  • Lessons from the USS Cole attack
    Phrases like "It's life or death" or "failure is not an option" have become part of our daily vocabulary. But how would your team hold up if something really awful happened. More importantly, how would you stand up to the challenge?
  • Technophobia or tech-rejection?
    Before implementing some new technology solution, it makes sense to ask its future users what objections they might have and get some buy-in. But that rarely happens - which explains why so many useful tools remain under-used.
  • Happy Defender of the Motherland Day
    If you ever need to be reminded of the fact we live in a multicultural world and function on a calendar other than the one your fathers and mothers used, just try arranging meetings in the merry, holiday-strewn month of May.
  • What makes a great remote team
    What separates great remote teams from those that are merely functional? Here are five differentiators that really mark out great remote teams.
  • How to stop wasting 600 hours a year
    Have you got 600 hours a year to waste? Yeah, me neither. Yet numbers show that's how much time is wasted in bad meetings, both face to face and virtual. But it doesn't have to be this way.
  • Hiring new remote team members
    Not everyone is cut out to work in a remote team. So how can you find people who are prepared - and suitable - to work in a virtual environment? Here are some key things to ask prospective team members.