This memo discusses the critical areas that need to be addressed when leading and managing virtual teams. It provides best practices for managing change, inculcating collaboration, setting team goals, effective communication, and delegation of authority. The memo also highlights the importance of building trust in virtual teams for long-term success.

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An exciting new approach to teamwork has resulted from advances in information technology, shifting employee expectations and the globalisation of business, namely the virtual team. A virtual team is made up of geographically or organisationally dispersed members who are linked primarily through advanced information and telecommunications technologies. Your Sydney HQ is developing a new marketing team with team members located in Sydney, New York, Beijing and Mumbai. This will necessitate the establishment of a virtual team spread over four different time zones using both synchronous (real time) and asynchronous (not concurrent) communication. One of the primary advantages of virtual teams is the ability to assemble the most talented group of people to complete a complex project through creativity and innovation. On a practical level the virtual team can also save employees' time and cut travel expenses. However, virtual teams also present unique challenges.

Discover best practices for leading virtual teams, including change management, collaboration, goal-setting, communication, and delegation.

Virtual Teams: Best Practices for Leading and Managing

This memo discusses the challenges and best practices for managing virtual teams. It highlights critical areas that need to be assessed, such as change management, collaboration, goal clarity, and communication. The memo emphasizes the importance of delegation, monitoring, and trust for successful virtual team management.

Virtual Team Management

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Atlantic Cape Community College

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This article discusses the challenges faced by virtual teams and the importance of adopting a permanent leadership structure to manage conflicts and achieve success. It covers the forming, storming, norming, and performing phases of virtual teams and emphasizes the need for effective communication channels and conflict resolution skills.

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Hartpury University and Hartpury College

Leading and Managing Virtual Teams

This document discusses the strategies to make virtual teams more successful, knowledge management and factors that affect the decisions to buy. It highlights the importance of virtual chat software, avoiding communication overloading, setting up collaborative tools, establishing standardised work processes, measuring performance, being flexible and remembering the big picture. It also explains knowledge management as a process of generating, sharing, utilising and managing the knowledge and information of a firm. Lastly, it discusses the factors that affect the decision to buy when compared with custom-building software such as cost, capacity, desirability and complexities.

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This article discusses the critical areas that need attention while leading and managing a virtual team. It highlights the importance of building a 24X7 work cycle, facing the unexpected, maintaining clarity, holding accountability, nurturing emergent leadership, and spotting differences in culture.

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Virtual Team Management

COMM 3020 - Professional Communication

Leadership Structure for Virtual Teams

Leading and Managing Virtual Teams

Strategies to make virtual teams more successful, Knowledge Management and Factors that affect the decisions to buy

Critical Areas of Virtual Meetings for Effective Management of Virtual Teams