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What skills will help project leaders succeed in times of uncertainty? As organizations pivot and deploy virtual teams, collaborative, engaging leaders are steering their teams to success. Penny Pullan, PhD, PMP, founder, Making Projects Work Ltd., Loughborough, England, says when you’re working virtually, command and control doesn’t work. She shares the value of facilitative leadership and the importance of building a team culture and relationships when leading virtual teams.Luiz Dias, PMP, PgMP, head of digital, portfolio transformation, Department for Work and Pensions in the United Kingdom, Newcastle, England, discusses how he and his teams have added daily standups and opened more lines of communication during COVID-19. He also shares how keeping a calm, positive attitude can help when leading teams in uncertain times. Key Themes[02:08] Leading virtual teams with facilitative leadership[04:02] Creating a culture for virtual teams [05:28] Building relationships with your team members[08:43] Communication more important than ever in COVID-19[11:39] Being open to reinvention and keeping a calm, positive attitude [13:25] Characteristics of a great leader: compassionate, concerned for team members and confident

Diverse project teams deliver value. A team that offers a wide variety of mindsets and skill sets will outperform the competition, as members challenge one another and approach problems from new angles. That often leads to innovation.Blair Taylor, partner, Workforce of the Future, PwC, Seattle, Washington, USA, says diversity unlocks potential. It yields better business results, and diverse teams create personal connections between people. He also discusses how he believes empathy—associative and acquired—is the missing ingredient to see more progress in diversity, equity and inclusion. Annice Joseph, co-lead, Inclusive Career Journeys, SAP, Bengaluru, India, shares how cross-generational teams bring innovation, creativity and group wisdom to projects. She also talks about how SAP’s cross-generation mentoring initiative has helped managers learn and change their behavior on their own teams.Key Themes [02:27] Diversity yields better business results, sends a message about an organization’s values and stimulates personal connections [06:16] Empathy—associative and acquired—is often a missing ingredient [11:05] Fostering a diverse environment and recruiting diverse talent [13:36] Multigenerational teams bring innovation, creativity and group wisdom [15:04] Changing behavior through SAP’s cross-generation mentoring initiative[17:02] Creating teams with skills and talent from across an organization

In the coronavirus pandemic, following the wrong information could be a fatal error. That’s why fact-checking organizations are delivering projects to separate truth from rumors. Silvia Cavasola, project manager, Pagella Politica, Milan, Italy, shares how teams from multiple organizations are working together to create a chatbot to answer COVID-19 questions. She also talks about the chatbot’s potential to create a closer relationship between readers and fact-checking platforms.Itziar Bernaola, director, Newtral Educación, Madrid, Spain, says her organization is facing an increasing number of fact verification requests due to COVID-19. Bernaola shares how she’s leading her team through a stressful time and discusses an automation project to help fact-checkers verify coronavirus information faster.Key Themes[02:05] Expanding fact-checking beyond the political world to include nonpolitical, coronavirus misinformation[03:50] Project of necessity: A chatbot for COVID-19 queries[07:27] Creating a relationship between readers and fact-checking platforms[09:27] Leading a team with an increased workload in a stressful time[12:46] Using automation to verify information