Communicate Better with Your Global Team

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Harvard Business Review

Communication, Business, Harvard, Strategy, Business/management, Teams, Business/marketing, Management, Leadership, Finance, Marketing, Hbr, Economics, Innovation, Business/entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 11 December 2014

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Tsedal Neeley, Harvard Business School professor, explains how globally distributed teams can collaborate better together.

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the H-B-Iebra Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green.
0:33.7	I'm talking today with Harvard Business School Professor
0:36.3	Siddal Neely, an expert on communication and global teams.
0:40.1	Siddal, thanks so much for joining us today.
0:41.8	Thank you for having me.
0:43.3	So I thought we would just start by talking about some of the challenges faced by managers
0:47.6	of globally distributed teams, and maybe how some of those challenges
0:51.9	are different from, you you know maybe the challenges
0:54.9	faced by any team that's maybe like a virtual team or sort of distributed what
0:59.7	are the sort of special challenges or globally distributed teams.
1:03.6	It's interesting because any time you have dispersion,
1:07.4	which means that you have members of a collaboration
1:11.2	who are not co-located having to work together, you have a layer of
1:15.7	complexity that these collaborators need to contend with. And then you overlay this global component and you have what you just named as
1:27.6	globally distributed work or globally distributed teams and some of the boundaries that they have to manage extremely well in order
1:36.0	to be effective include time zone differences.
1:40.8	How do you make sure that you're able to engage one another in a way that doesn't inconvenience
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