21st Century Work Life - Remote Working, Virtual Teams And Flexible Working

There are many valid reasons for resisting going remote in your team, but today we cover those reasons based on myths and common misconceptions about personalities suited to remote work and communication. visit www.virtualnotdistant.com We start with the one piece of often misquoted research, something that really frustrates Pilar in particular: 1) 93% of communication is non-verbal. The assumption of this is that therefore, virtual teamwork will never work as well as collocated. However, this statistic, which comes from Mehrabian’s work needs more context. It relates to emotional content and is more pertinent to situations where there is a disconnect between what is being said and what the listener is perceiving is going on. This article explains it all: https://www.businessballs.com/communication-skills/mehrabians-communication-theory-verbal-non-verbal-body-language-152/   2) The only way of generating ideas and innovating is by being in a room together shouting out ideas. Therefore if we can’t do this a