The Collaboration Superpowers Podcast

Mark Kilby's specialties include Agile retrospectives, organizational change, and coaching distributed teams and stakeholders on continuous collaboration. I talk to him about Agile and remote teams, virtual facilitation techniques, productivity, management, and more! For more stories, visit www.collaborationsuperpowers.com.

Teamed.io develops software in an "extremely" distributed mode. They have no central office, no meetings, no conference, calls, and no Skype chats. They work through task management systems and call it: "Team as a service". I interview Yegor Bugayenko, Founder and CTO, about this unique way of working! For more stories, visit www.collaborationsuperpowers.com.

Iwein Fuld is the founder of StarterSquad, a company with no employees - only entrepreneurs. We hear how they built their community of success and how they make it work. To learn more about StarterSquad, visit www.startersquad.com. For more stories, visit www.collaborationsuperpowers.com.

Brian Day from NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute takes us on a tour of the Lunar Mapping and Modeling Portal - a program that allows anyone to take a virtual tour of the moon. For more stories, visit www.collaborationsuperpowers.com.

Hassan Osman is the author of Influencing Virtual Teams, a book with practical concrete things you can do when managing your virtual team. We talk a lot about trust, and Hassan gives us some great tips for how to build trust. For more stories, visit www.CollaborationSuperpowers.com.

Pilar Orti runs the Virtual, Not Distant consulting firm in the UK. Her speciality is coaching virtual teams. In this interview we discuss humanizing the virtual office: how to bring spontaneity to your remote team and how to be creative virtually. For more stories, visit www.collaborationsuperpowers.com. Find Lisette on Twitter at https://twitter.com/lightling.

There's almost no one working as remotely as the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI)! In this episode, I interview them about how they work remotely, what's working well, and what challenges they are facing. For more stories, visit www.collaborationsuperpowers.com.

Howard Esbin has developed a cloud-based game for virtual teams called Prelude. Prelude uses a novel mix of psychometrics and creativity to help foster team member rapport and trust prior to the start of a new project. In this interview, we discuss how teams get to know each other and connect virtually. For more stories, visit www.collaborationsuperpowers.com.

Lisette talks to Chris Ridgewell, the co-founder and Director of Wisework, a specialist UK-based management consultancy company that helps organizations plan, implement, and manage their agile/smart-working programs. They discuss productivity, using legacy buildings, management, trust and more! For more stories of remote teams doing great things, visit www.collaborationsuperpowers.com.