- Geographic expansion is a top priority for small to mid-sized companies who recognize the importance of new markets for business sustainability.
- Because of this expansion, and also due to the increase of computer-mediated communication technologies, global teams are becoming more common.
- Managing a global team poses challenges that local managers don’t usually encounter, such as understanding different cultures, communicating across time zones, and a lack of face-to-face meetings.
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Critical Insight
- While the competencies required to manage a global team are the same as those needed to manage a local team, managers of global teams must invest time and effort into understanding cultural differences, setting the team’s direction, setting performance expectations, and empowering appropriately.
- Cultural differences are the most significant difference, and managers are responsible for not only understanding the differences themselves, but also facilitating understanding of the differences among team members.
- Trust building has the highest impact on global team success and should be a primary area of focus for global team leaders.
Impact and Result
- This solution set will walk you through the main activity areas by providing best practices associated with setting direction, performance expectations, building trust, and empowering appropriately.
- It will assist you with a comprehensive list of topics to cover in the first team meeting and also provides tools and templates to help leaders understand team members better, build a project plan, and record team member decision rights.