WELCOME TO THE G&D SPACE DEDICATED TO HELPING US WORK WITH DIVERSITY IN VIRTUAL TEAMS EFFECTIVELY
. The following original articles were developed by our team for G&D's Online Course for High Performing Scientific Teams. They give you a peek into what is covered, including good tips for working in distributed, multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary teams through processes and tools for online collaboration, decision-making and problem resolution. These articles are just part of the full course experience which includes not only theory, but audits to help surface key issues and team work to put learnings into practice, all in a safe and facilitated environment. More about G&D Online CourseWe post this material to make our ideas for working with diversity in virtual teams freely available, but also to support follow up for our Course participants. You are invited to use this information with your own teams providing due respect to the credits.
- Creating Scientific Knowledge Online
- Starting with Compelling Vision and Purpose
- Modes of Online Communications
- Tips for Effective Email
- Developing Trust Online
- Effective Online Decision Making
- Understanding Cultural Differences
- The Power of Differences
- Creating Working Norms and Agreements
- Working Through Difficulties
- Review of Pilot Online Course
See also Working with Diversity in Collaborations: Tips and Tools (G&D Working Paper No 39 available in Arabic, English and Spanish).
For access to excellent materials on gender and diversity in virtual teams developed by other organizations, please see our Cybrary of Best Links on Gender and Diversity in Vitural Teams.
