Chapter    11

Building Geographically Dispersed Teams Over Skype

One key to a profitable and effective business is building team rapport across employees. This is accomplished more readily when everyone is in one location. However, with the rise of geographically dispersed business teams, the ability to easily converse spontaneously across continents and oceans at little or no cost becomes an essential ingredient for success.

As a result Skype has become a key to not only building business teams that comprise the best resources available worldwide but also to generating revenues internationally with minimum overhead. While Skype helps minimize travel expenses, it also keeps in contact with those team members who do have to travel.

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