Three Disruptive Ideas: Working in a Virtual Team

Virtual teams, global teams, and cross-cultural teams. Is there a definition of these terms? We'd suggest that the term virtual team refers to two thngs: The geographic dispersion of the team members (who could be in the same city but not in the same office)  The way we are working (with teams that work in different countries and timezones that require cultural appreciation as well as evening and weekend meetings). As technology breaks down geographic barriers and the speed of business accelerates, we all need to think differently about our global work style

Working with a Writing-Skills Coach

With input from a manager, a writing-skills coach from Write It Well helps each participant define and achieve three or four personal learning objectives. To achieve these objectives, the coach does three things: Carefully develops and follows a customized program agenda Sets a series of job-relevant assignments Reviews the completed assignments between sessions Each week, the coach provides feedback on all these learning objectives. All participants in coaching must be committed to tackling their personal writing challenges

HyperIsland Review

On Thursday 15 August, Primetime members and guests went on a romp through digital media with Cofounder Jonathan Briggs and Partnership Director Maria Eriksson of Hyper Island — the experimental university college in Karlskrona, Sweden. Jonathan recently relocated to Singapore; he and his team help businesses harness the power and insights that digital media brings. The Hyper Island team led a standing-room-only crowd through a 90-minute workshop that included hands-on exercises, discussion, and a deep dive into what data we can collect about visitors to our sites

Effective Email: Saving Time and Saving Face

How much time do you spend each week grappling with your work email?  Most businesspeople spend thirty percent of each workweek on email reading, writing, and responses.  Write It Well workshop participants estimate that they could spend a third of that time more effectively.  Follow these tips to recapture your time! 

Measure and Protect ROI

We deliver skills assessments before and after our trainings to measure how well participants understand our content. We make sure our clients see a return on investment (ROI) every time they invest in training.Assessments are a kind of test; here’s an illustration of how they’d operate for one employee who took an email workshop: Did Joe know how to write an effective email subject line before the training? After the training, can Joe write subject lines that meet training guidelines? If Joe’s subject lines now meet the client’s standards for effectiveness, then the training itself was effective