Virtualoso - An Expert At Working Virtually

Are you a Virtualoso?

You are if...

1. When someone says “Let’s Meet”, your response is “Okay, I will send out a Live Meeting request, Go To Meeting Request or Webex request”

2. You do not require a conference room to have a meeting - you typically meet in Cyberspace

3. Your laptop and a phone are all you need to conduct a meeting – be that a presentation, a demo, a training program or a weekly status meeting. Your productivity is not tied to anything else.

4. Starbucks is your second office and you have a pretty good handle on all the other public places where Wi-Fi is available - Panera, Barnes & Nobles, Le Boulanger, et al.

5. With the tools in your kit, you can have an instant meeting – no need to sync calendars, schedule a conference room or hunt down an InFocus.

6. Your clients know you by your name, your voice and electronic persona - not your face or your style of dressing.  And vice versa.

7. You can take on a project of any size virtually – small, medium, large.

8. You’re an expert at sharing all kinds of documents right from your desktop - Powerpoint documents, Word documents, Excel documents, Xactly Screens (which is applicable to people in my line of work) and more.

9. Your comfort with doing things virtually makes you more likely to sign up for Webinars than Seminars.

10. And last but not least, you have a bring it on attitude when it comes to tools which can help you be more efficient in the virtual environment –e-mail, instant messaging, teleconferencing, video conferencing, web-based file hosting services such as Drop Box, and more.

Virtualoso...Isn’t it time you became one?

P.S.  I started being a Virtualoso when I got my first laptop (this was back when Palm was still part of 3Com).

Currently as a contract Business Architect for Solutions Partners Inc, an Xactly Implementations partner, my projects are completely virtual and I have used all of the tools mentioned in this post.