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Personal work challenges that our clients face:

    •Meetings and e-mails take up all work time
    •Travel and work in many time zones
    •Work/life imbalance
    •Changing technologies
 


Client case: Sales director of a large corporation who has a global team and traveled over 200 days in a year. He typically had four teleconference meetings and over 200 e-mails a day. He got up early in the morning to be able to attend teleconference meetings in other time zones and went to sleep late for the same reason. It was not unusual for him to get up at 5a.m. in the morning to take part in a 1.5 hour teleconference call, where his input only took 5 minutes. The only time he felt he did not need to be available for a call was when the airplane pilot told to turn off electronic devices. His family life was not in balance. He was stressed and dreamt of alternative ways of making a living.

Our teleconference calls were dreadfully boring. I got so little out of them and they wasted my work hours and sleep time too. I often muted myself and worked on my e-mails – not fully paying attention to either task.

Radical Inclusion introduced a “virtual office” platform that gave our client’s team an opportunity to work in their own time zones, simplify project management, keep files organized, and access the office from anywhere with an internet connection. Emails from the team members, which used to make up the biggest bulk in their inboxes, trickled down to a few forwarded emails per day. Furthermore, Radical Inclusion designed collaborative Web conference processes for the team’s meeting needs. The team now holds their status update meetings, workshops and strategy meetings in a collaborative Web conference platform where everybody has a chance to contribute. Length and frequency of the meetings was reduced by more effective meeting processes and by using the virtual office to work on issues before and after meetings.

   Radical Inclusion work management solutions:

  • Analysis of current work patterns and barriers to effective work
  • Design of personal virtual collaboration strategy and the related work processes
  • Training in virtual collaboration work, including real-time meetings and asynchronous collaboration
  • Coaching individuals and teams in developing virtual collaboration behaviors and skills
  • Facilitation of meetings
  • Virtual leadership training

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