Are you struggling with remote teamwork, wondering how to support “online” onboarding or maintain trust and informal relationships in your hybrid team?  To help you with all of these questions and to support remote and hybrid teams. We have developed a CREW network system.

Teams are sophisticated and complex networks. Since 1994 we research with ESA and NASA on team performance.

Do you know how people feel in remote teams?

ISOLATED

During months-long team-isolation experiments, we ongoingly analyse communication and connectedness among the team members and their feelings.

We simulate communication black-outs and delays and break down the teams into subgroups. Lack of information increases potential misunderstandings, delay lowers trust, silos lead to the in-group / out-group effect.

The better the team members are interconnected, the better agility in overcoming whatever challenge.

Maintaining “strong ties” and developing “weak ties” among team members is essential.

What differentiate excellent and poor teams in the long-term?

TRUST

This is repeatedly confirmed also by our research on military teams operating in Afghanistan and other missions.

The possibility to rely personally and professionally on others is essential.

What is negatively impacted by long-term isolation or lockdown?

MENTAL-HEALTH

Pandemic increased the need to support mental health and well-being in teams.

Our research on teams in long-term isolation reveals that informal bonding and psychological safety are essential for a healthy workspace.

Guess what the most challenging thing to overcome for astronauts during long-term isolation is?

BOREDOM / OVERLOAD

A good balance of workload turned out to be essential for effective teams in the long-term. Routine and lack of stimuli are killers of engagement. Long-lasting overload can lead to burn-out. The pandemic revealed large differences in personal resilience both to overload as well as coping with stimulus-deprivation.

Promoting mutual support among team members is essential..

If you want to learn more and develop your remote teams’ leadership through learning the CREW network system, join a free webinar.

Where does Sociomapping come from?

Our CTO, Cyril Höschl, PhD., and Associate Professor Radvan Bahbouh PhD invented Sociomapping, to visualize interrelationship data. This powerful science, also used by NASA and Army in the military missions, reflects social and team dynamics in a way the human brain can understand, and within seconds. Whether you want to develop a remote, agile, or leadership team, Sociomapping visualizes the current and optimal team set-up and reveals potential issues within collaboration culture.