Team Leadership
STRENGTHENING VIRTUAL TEAMS
Creating Successful Virtual Teams
In the future most teams will be doing some or all of their work in a virtual setting. While today’s communication technology makes it possible to create a virtual team, true success is not just about having access to the technology. The most advanced technology will not cause people to share their knowledge or become productive while working in diverse environments.
Virtual teams have the same needs and go through the same stages of development as face-to-face teams. Virtual and face-to-face teams require structure, direction, recognition, clear communication strategies, problem-solving skills, and flexible and shared leadership in order to be successful.
The Strengthening Virtual Teams program gives virtual teams a proven process for forming, building trust, dealing with the issue of attentiveness, and developing and improving communication.
Results
- Gain insights into virtual team dynamics, relationships, and productivity
- Evaluate a team on the ability to effectively deal with the top three challenges of working virtually: trust, attentiveness, and communication
- Develop strong relationships and build trust among team members
- Increase team members’ abilities to identify good communication strategies and establish norms for using technology
- Gain an overview and understanding of the Team Chartering process, which is recommended to jump-start all teams on the road to success
- Identify team needs and use troubleshooting strategies for enhancing team productivity
- Apply learning immediately in team activities that can launch a new virtual team or refocus an existing one
- Gain competence using 26 virtual team tools, directly from the CD-ROM or from printed copies