Whether you work for a multinational organization, converse with clients around the world, or travel overseas for business, you know the reality of global teamwork. While working with teams across the globe is often highly rewarding, it doesn't come without its challenges. We've identified our top struggles of working with global teams, and ensured our collaboration solutions have the tools to address them:
1. Poor communication between teams is a common workplace problem. The more people involved, the more opportunities for miscommunication. Add in teams separated by distance, and the complications expand. The key to reducing this is getting everyone looking at - and engaging with - the same content. Forrester Research shows that 36% of remote participants feel disconnected from onsite teams, which leads to disengagement and a loss in productivity.
Our collaboration solutions, ThinkHub and ViewHub, have remote views designed to keep everyone feeling connected and involved, no matter if they’re in the same room or across the globe. 83% of information workers say they can be productive with the right collaboration tools, regardless of location.
2. Conflicting schedules and time zones often hinders the ability to work together. Working with teams in different time zones often means taking calls and returning emails at odd hours. ThinkHub MultiSite greatly reduces the need for this by providing shared sessions. Sharing sessions through ThinkHub MultiSite allows users to share, annotate, and view content on the ThinkHub Canvas as usual, but anyone with access to the shared session can join in at any time, from any connected ThinkHub unit or via AirConnect View. This means a team in London can start a session, a team in New York can add to it a few hours later, a team in Los Angeles can pick up from there, and so on and so forth. Team members can update content, provide feedback, and take notes on their own time for everyone else to see.
3. Circumstances where phone and email are not enough require you to get creative. Sometimes that face-to-face interaction would do wonders for your team, but costs associated with flying teams to visit one another can add up. For these situations, we find videoconferencing often does the trick.
Videoconferencing provides that extra level of interpersonal communication that more traditional ways of remote communication lack. We've designed ThinkHub to integrate with several hardware- and software-based videoconferencing solutions, so you can use the ThinkHub Canvas with the systems you already have in place. In-room ThinkHub users will be able to see remote participants on the Canvas, while remote participants will see both a live camera feed and a live feed of the Canvas.
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