These days many businesses rely on a remote workforce telecommuting. However, this arrangement brings along as many challenges as it brings advantages, often causing frustration and discontent both in employers and employees. Those who aim to establish effective communication with their remote team should be aware of the challenges its members may face.  If your business is considering offering remote work to a virtual team then here are 5 challenges you will have to overcome to manage and communicate well with your remote employees and contractors:

Being the leader of a team isn't a piece of cake. As a matter of fact, NO team is actually easy to manage. Whenever several people with different beliefs, coming from different walks of life are put to work together as a team, miscommunication and chaos are potentially going to be there. However, strong leaders know how to keep their teams together and how to motivate people to cooperate towards common goals. Here are 7 ways to improve team efficiency and productivity.

Whether you're in charge of a business, a charity, a community organisation or anything else – teamwork is essential to the success of any project. Without teamwork, people won't be working together to accomplish common goals. Here's how to maximise teamwork for your business:

It's right to expect the best from your staff, but do you know how to achieve this? Are you an effective team leader? Try these ten top tips to become more effective as a leader:

Now, the fact remains that the number one determinant of the success of any form of organization is the human resources. The material resources, the finances and the infrastructure, are all secondary, and success will not be achieved if the rightful ...

Facebook just topped Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards as the best place to work in the United States for the third time. This begs the question, how does an organization with more than 23,000 employees and 48 offices around the world manage to re...

Did you know that effective business communication reduces employee turnover by 50% ? Moreover, 97% of employees strongly believe that the lack of collaboration within a team might jeopardize the results of an entire project. So, what can we conclude...

The advantages of running a remote team are rather obvious – you save on office space, greater flexibility for your employees – and most importantly, you can hire people from all over the world, not just your hometown. The folks over at Zapier are a ...