Meetings

Virtual Experiences the Age of Virtual Events has arrived

  • Whitepaper
  • March 31, 2010

A down economy paralyzing travel budgets and threatening event and trade show attendance. A marketing community in need of larger audiences and more leads. Event professionals under fire to produce critical ROI at all costs.

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How to Create an Effective Virtual Event Common Mistakes Event Managers Should Avoid

  • Whitepaper
  • March 31, 2010

Virtual events have spread beyond tradeshow exhibitions to encompass a wide range of strategic events based around business needs. In the process, they’ve become powerful corporate collaboration business applications for virtual sales conferences, product demonstrations, analyst and press briefings, and even internal corporate events.

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Identifying the Key Factors in the Effectiveness and Failure of Virtual Teams

  • Whitepaper
  • March 16, 2010

Virtual teams, “individuals collaborating in geographically dispersed work teams who may reside in different time zones and countries” (Horwitz, Bravington, & Silvis, 2006, p. 472), are continuing to increase in frequency in today’s global economy. These teams have become a vital option for organizations that need to work in multiple locales at once and draw on vast global expertise.

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Elements of Technology and Success in Virtual Teams

  • Whitepaper
  • March 16, 2010

Virtual teams are the future and the future is now! Virtual teams are receiving high attention because they constitute new way of working. Characteristics of virtual teams, such as the maturity curve, the advantages and disadvantages are presented, along with the basic rules to follow in building successful virtual teams.

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Leading Effectively from a Distance: Six Strategies Managers Need to Know

  • Whitepaper
  • March 16, 2010

In a market fraught with uncertainty, many companies have focused on cutting expenses and increasing productivity and efficiency as a way to stem market share losses and reverse downward sales trends.

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Global Virtual Teams

  • Whitepaper
  • March 16, 2010

Things have changed at the workplace. Many of us remember the days when working at a company commonly meant working at the place where our co-workers also worked.

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Information Sharing: Virtual Teams

  • Whitepaper
  • March 16, 2010

With the rise of the global marketplace and the flattening of corporate structures, virtual teams are a phenomenon of the modern workplace. Seven out of 10 teams in Corporate America are virtual teams (Kostner, 2001).

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Facing Down Your Fears about Facilitating a Virtual Meeting

  • Whitepaper
  • March 16, 2010

Even if you’ve had years of experience leading groups, you’re bound to feel a little anxious when you are asked to facilitate a virtual meeting, especially one that replaces a traditional face-to-face one.

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Virtual Meetings… Just Like Live, But Different

  • Whitepaper
  • March 16, 2010

There are differences between how you prepare for a successful virtual meeting compared to a live one. But there are more similarities than you might expect.

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Coaching Virtual Global Leaders: The Communications Challenge

  • Whitepaper
  • March 10, 2010

The future of coaching will be shaped by the interrelated evolution of 21st century global collaborations, their enabling technologies, and the ability of coaches to adapt their services to the requirements of this era.

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