Information Sharing and Collaboration

Whether you are starting out new to remote work, have new team members, recovering from poor performance or in crisis mode, it is critical that you really emphasize both quantity and quality of together time, collaboration and information sharing. Here, you need to ensure not only that you have the right technology but that you are using it to achieve your goals.

In addition for both together time and information sharing, you need to focus on a variety of methods. With together time, you need a mix of video, audio only and text only but just as important is also  mixing in social interchanges and informal discussions with more the more formal. On information sharing, using a mix of video, audio, groupware and even email, you need to fit the method and process to the purpose and ensure you have the technology appropriate for storing and organizing information on projects, relationships, processes and products/services.