MNG81001 Management Communication: Strategies for Virtual Team Success

This presentation provides an overview of best practices for achieving virtual team success, particularly within the context of geographically dispersed teams connected through digital means. It emphasizes the importance of highly structured and punctual meetings, regular communication, and effective communication strategies that account for the absence of non-verbal cues. Recommendations include establishing a clear team agenda, utilizing various communication platforms, assigning a team facilitator, providing relevant training, maintaining punctuality, and celebrating team achievements. The presentation references academic sources to support its claims and offers practical advice for implementing these practices to ensure team success. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and resources for students.

Virtual teams
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Virtual teams
– Virtual teams are those teams which are dispersed
geographically but are connected through the digital
means (Erez et al. 2013).
– Although the idea appears to be simple , it is not so and
certain practices need to be inculcated.
– The presentation deals with the best practices in
achieving virtual success team and provides certain
recommendations for them also.

Best practice 1: Conducted
Highly structured meetings
– When the meetings are being conducted with team members from various
parts of the world, it is crucial to understand that these meetings need to be of
relevant importance in order to deviate from wasting time and effort.
– The meetings should be punctual in nature and all the technology used to
connect must be well connected.
– This ensures that the team recognizes the importance of time and conduct their
tasks appropriately.

Best practice 2:Schedule
regular meetings
– As the virtual teams are not present in the same location, the organization
needs to ensure that in order to stay connected in a better manner, the
members schedule regular meetings.
– These meetings can be either formal or informal in nature and assist the firm in
maintaining the discipline of a firm and assist in attaining success.

Best practice 3: Communicate
effectively
– Communication is they key. As body language and emotions are not present in
virtual teams, they need to communicate more often to ensure that the needs
and the capabilities are understood by all (Hackelberg 2014).
– Moreover, the communication needs to be in a common language understood
by all.

Recommendations
– Hence, in order to ensure the success of the team, the practices which were discussed
can be implement in the following manner:
– Having a proper team agenda
– Ensuring connection on various platforms.
– Having a team facilaitor
– Conducting training
– Maintain punctuality
– Celebrate success.

References
– Erez, M., Lisak, A., Harush, R., Glikson, E., Nouri, R. and Shokef, E., 2013. Going
global: Developing management students' cultural intelligence and global
identity in culturally diverse virtual teams. Academy of Management Learning &
Education, 12(3), pp.330-355.
– Hackelberg, T., 2014. A team is more than the sum of its parts: the role of
diversity in personalities in virtual teams (Master's thesis, University of Twente).

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