Myth Busting Breakfast Discussion on Virtual Teams

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19 March 2014 | Updated 01 January 1970

Anyone wanting to improve the performance of virtual teams is invited to a free breakfast seminar on Thursday 27^th March in the City of London, hosted by consultants AWA.

The panel will be exploring the big questions around virtual working, including: What conditions create a high performing virtual team? How do you equip large populations for effective virtual working?When you take away the office, what do you need to put back in to make teams work effectively?

The speakers will be:

• Rob Briner Professor of Organisational Psychology at Bath University (and a member of CEBMa’s Academic Council) who will talk about recent developments at Yahoo and other tech  firms as well as the role of the psychological contract
• Phil Makinson, sharing his experiences of equipping people for remote working and managing remote teams at RBS.
• Andrew Mawson,  AWA MD, exploring managing and working at a distance and the role of trust management.

AWA has launched a new research project to determine the best ways to manage virtual teams. The High Performing Virtual Teams (HPVT) initiative brings together specialist management consultants AWA with the Centre for Evidence Based Management (CEBMa) in Amsterdam. The project is currently seeking sponsorship from both workplace occupiers and suppliers.

With so many knowledge workers now working together without being together, it’s important to understand what promotes or inhibits performance and productivity in these virtual teams.

The research project will  look at several different types of virtual working, including:

• People working in teams that work a substantial part of their time at home
• People who work in teams that work on the road
• People who work in teams where team members are in different offices, locations or geographic territories
• People who aren’t physically together because team members work multiple shift patterns.

The work will be done under the umbrella of AWA’s Workplace Performance Innovation Network (PIN) which has been exploring performance in the workplace over the last four years. This will be the  second project from the Workplace PIN Research Group, following its work on professional productivity. It will also build on AWA’s earlier White Paper ‘Managing and Working at a Distance’.

The picture used with this article represents a virtual breakfast and is not necessarily (nor likely) the type of breakfast on offer at the seminar

Article written by Brian Shillibeer | Published 19 March 2014

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