Tools for overcoming time zone differences in remote teams?
Naime Yel
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Ivan Dudin@myprlab
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As practice has shown, the solution is not in the tool, but in the organization of the process and in the agreements in the team. If the team is located within at least one hemisphere, then a specific time zone is chosen as the default key time and everyone is aligned with it.
If the employees are located all over the world, then it is convenient to choose two radically opposite time zones, and general calls should be held at 9:00 NY.
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Sure, for managing time zone differences in remote teams, you could use tools like Spacetime, Every Time Zone, or World Time Buddy, which offer features to help you coordinate across different locations without losing track of who's where.
Tool #1 - realistic expectations
Tool #2 - patience
Tool #3 - understanding that I understand very little of the team member's life
There are so many
Communication: Slack/Teams
Scheduling: Calendly
Collaborating: Google Docs, Microsoft Online.
But the main thing to overcome time zones is
1) Set clear expectations
2) Define overlapping work hours
3) Be flexible with meetings. Sometimes you have to be the one that wakes up at 6AM to jump on a call with someone across the world.
4) Distribute decision making, and delegate.
Hope that helps!
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Notion is a good platform for that since you can customize all the pages according to your needs. Someone can raise a ticket and have all the relevant info in it. That way teams may not need to wait for a response for hours.
Most important, communication platforms. Slack, create channels for diffrent teams or projects.
Microsoft teams, use features like -shifts- to manage team schedules and shifts across diffrent time zones.