Getting Sufficient Challenge in Your Remote Team

Описание: One challenge in managing virtual teams is… Challenge. That is, that we fail to adequately challenge one-another’s thinking, because the distance and cultural differences in a remote team make it even more uncomfortable or difficult than usual.

Ideas and decisions that go unchallenged can lead to disaster.


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This video is part of course module number 4.3.5
Program 4: Managing & Leading Groups
Course 3: Teams
Section 5: Managing Remote Teams

Other videos in this section include:
🎬 Introduction to Managing Remote Teams
🔗    • Introduction to Managing Remote Teams  
🎬 Creating Trust in Remote Teams
🔗    • Creating Trust in Remote Teams  
🎬 Helping Build Understanding in Your Remote Team
🔗    • Helping Build Understanding in Your Remote...  
🎬 Crafting Connection and Building Culture in Your Remote Team
🔗    • Creating Connection and Building Culture i...  
🎬 Fostering Responsibility within Your Remote Team
🔗    • Fostering Responsibility within Your Remot...  
🎬 Maintaining Productivity in Your Remote Team
🔗    • Maintaining Productivity in Your Remote Team  
🎬 Developing the People in Your Remote Team
🔗    • Developing People in Your Remote Team  
🎬 Taking Care of the Wellbeing of People in Your Remote Team
🔗    • Taking Care of the Wellbeing of People in ...  


LESSON NOTES
Challenging another person’s thinking is counter to some cultural norms… This can be especially so when there is a difference in seniority, power, or technical expertise. So, you’ll need to find some mechanisms to overcome this, for the good of effective problem-solving and robust decision-making.

Techniques to Encourage Challenge within a Virtual Team
1. Leader-role
Avoid the team leader or decision-maker stating their position up front. Encourage team members to debate options, without giving away where they are minded to go. Two benefits:
1. You are more likely to form an objective opinion. If you state your position early, you may find it hard to change your mind, despite the quality of the reasoning you hear.
2. You can hear genuine challenge and debate among peers. Team members won’t succumb to the temptation to play to your favor, because they won’t know what play to make.

2. Make it Routine
Make challenge and debate part of your regular cycle of meetings, so people get comfortable with challenge.

3. Systematize Challenge
Adopt formal roles and processes to make systematic challenge easy.

4. Red Team
Set up a ‘red team’ to review recommendations of any sub-team that proposes an option with significant consequences if it fails. Make it their task to identify and test every assumption and element of reasoning. That way, you can assess the rigor of the original work. Knowing there will be a red team review will also put any work-team on its mettle.


RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
1. How robustly does your remote team challenge each other's thinking? (1 MC CPD Point)
2. Start to employ one or two of the techniques in this video, over the next few weeks. (3 MC CPD Points)
3. After 4 weeks, review what you have observed. (2 MC CPD Points)
4. Perhaps cycle back to step 2

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team https://geni.us/wbIE
The Wisdom of Teams https://geni.us/7i1AL
The Belbin Guide to Succeeding at Work https://geni.us/Kzc4GV4
Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart https://geni.us/oAgEOdA
Pulling Together: 10 Rules for High-Performance Teamwork https://geni.us/zUVV3G
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Teams https://geni.us/0DLsNe4

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