Managing and Leading Virtual Teams

Running head: MANAGING AND LEADING VIRTUAL TEAMS
Managing and Leading Virtual Teams
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1MANAGING AND LEADING VIRTUAL TEAMS
To: Christian Ford
From: Sam Thompson
Date: 10th August 2018
Subject: Leading and managing virtual teams
The modern work places function on the basis of remote and virtual working conditions. The
success of the teams depend mostly on effective communication network. Additionally, I
have built up a virtual team that will help in marketing and is located in different places like
New York, Beijing, Mumbai and Sydney. The memo will be based on discussing the
disadvantages and advantages that are present in managing the virtual teams in a proper
manner. However, it needs to be taken in to consideration that critical areas need to be
identified so that it can be addressed in a proper manner leading to the success of the virtual
team. Moreover, proper recommendations in building up the virtual team has been included
along with the concluding statement.
Firstly, I would like to provide an introduction regarding the concept of virtual team. The
concept of virtual team is that a group of persons needs to perform as a team from different
locations based on the communication technology that is available such as video
conferencing, emails, FAX and other mediums that will help in communicating in a proper
manner (Hoch and Kozlowski 2014). To put it simply, it can be stated that people have to
work together as a team in different levels present in the organization in a synchronized
manner. The group maybe dispersed based on the location and organization and will
collaborate with the help of information and telecommunication technologies so that the task
of the organization can be accomplished (Lilian 2014).