Virtual Tools/Resources

Free Video Conferencing Tools Available to You, Include:

• www.Zoom.us – easy to use and allows for the use of video conference rooms. They have a free version that lets you host up to 100 participants with a 40- minute time limit. Great quality of video and I use it as my primary video tool.
  
  
• www.Slack.com – has a free plan and can select different channels (blogs, events, products, etc.) and individual team members can have group chats and share files.

 

 

Free or Low Cost Project Management Tools:

• www.Asana.com – has a free version project dashboard for up to 15 team members and has unlimited tasks, projects and conversations.
  
  
• Google Drive – delivering 100 GB of memory at for $1.99/month, it can make changes in real time and easy to use. Starts with 15 GB free storage.
  
  
• www.Dashlane.com – a password manager that provides access without actually trying to remember which team member has what password. Even has a password generator. Free version has unlimited password and data storage, security monitoring service and breach alert.

 

 

Multi-Cultural Virtual Teams

• Managing cross-functional and virtual teams.

• https://bit.ly/2PKKd7d
  
  
• Challenges in and Strategies for Working with Multi-Cultural Virtual Teams
  https://bit.ly/2oeBxcT
  
  

• Managing Cultural Diversity for a Virtual Workforce

• https://bit.ly/2odBVYW

 

 

Audio Conference Virtual Nuggets

• Join.me

• http://www.join.me - Free one on one and instant meeting

 

• FreeConference.com

• http://www.freeconferencecall.com - 5 online video participants (400 audio participants)

 

 

Leadership Styles

• The pacesetting leader is the type of leader that expects the group to be one that is already a high performing, motivated, and skilled that gets things done.

• https://bit.ly/2wlXYBh

 

• The authoritative leader inspires the group to be follow his lead to a new vision or mission. What they are good at is getting people to see how their work fits into the company’s goals.

• https://bit.ly/2NpXf8M

 

Specialization is used heavily by the Japanese but it is within their culture to become experts in a single thing and to keep doing it better and better. Americans have a hard time with it because they become (Ron, your sentence ended here?)