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Talent Management Magazine: “Virtual Teams: Narrowing the Performance Gap”

6 October 2009

Global virtual work environments are increasingly common, as are associated performance gaps caused by lack of cohesion, collaboration and focus.

Your organization is dependent on global virtual teams to carry a heavy workload, but teams aren't performing as they should. Yes, the teams have access to all the collaboration technologies and tools they need — web meetings, groupware, social media, wikis, instant messaging and so on — but results are well below expectations. Despite all the broadband connectivity, the teams have just never, well, connected. Unfortunately, this scenario is all too common.

In this article originally published by Talent Management magazine in October 2009, Terence Brake, author of ‘Where in the World is My Team?’ discusses his 6Cs framework in which talent managers can use to build a sustainable, performance-enhancing collaboration architecture for virtual teams.

Please access the article and read it in full here.