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How to Effectively Manage Remote Workteams
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| As an outsourcing company, we work with offshore workteams as a matter of course. The two most pressing challenges we continually face are those of managing and measuring the outsourcing performance of our remote workteam, and facilitating communication between local co-workers and the remote workteam as they collaborate on projects.
With most local workteams, outsourcing managers can set a series of milestones and checkpoints, and manage to those deliverables. However, when outsourcing to a remote workteam, this approach becomes problematic due to the distance and lack of regular workteam visibility.
Here are a few of the things we believe are keys to successfully maximizing outsourcing workteam relationships: |
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10 Activities for Local-Remote Workteam Building
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| I was sitting in our conference room working on a project with a few on-site co-workers the other day - 5 professionals meeting to discuss a specific work-related project with the occassional sidebars about family, golf, airplanes, dating, and politics - when I started to think of the other 8 remote individuals that are part of our workteam. I started to think of the value that interpersonal relationships contribute to the overall success of a workteam and the greater company which employs and tasks it...
When the meeting ended, I took a few minutes to sit down and come up with the following local-remote workteam activities... |
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Integrating Your Virtual Freelance Staff with Your In-House Team
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| Most outsourcing assignments start small--you hire a freelance provider to complete a specific project. Then, when the provider proves they can be relied upon, you start giving them more hours and increasingly vital outsourcing tasks. Soon you may find your remote freelance provider fully integrated with your in-house staff, changing the relationship between outsourcing buyer and freelance provider. Here's what we've learned (on the job) when it comes to integrating outsourcing and in-house workteams. |
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Integrating Your Virtual Freelance Staff with Your In-House Team
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| Most outsourcing assignments start small--you hire a freelance provider to complete a specific project. Then, when the provider proves they can be relied upon, you start giving them more hours and increasingly vital outsourcing tasks. Soon you may find your remote freelance provider fully integrated with your in-house staff, changing the relationship between outsourcing buyer and freelance provider. Here's what we've learned (on the job) when it comes to integrating outsourcing and in-house workteams. |
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How to Effectively Manage Remote Workteams
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| As an outsourcing company, we work with offshore workteams as a matter of course. The two most pressing challenges we continually face are those of managing and measuring the outsourcing performance of our remote workteam, and facilitating communication between local co-workers and the remote workteam as they collaborate on projects.
With most local workteams, outsourcing managers can set a series of milestones and checkpoints, and manage to those deliverables. However, when outsourcing to a remote workteam, this approach becomes problematic due to the distance and lack of regular workteam visibility.
Here are a few of the things we believe are keys to successfully maximizing outsourcing workteam relationships: |
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