Effective Strategies for Managing Virtual Project Teams

The assignment focuses on launching a group HR plan by integrating insights from previous modules. It emphasizes understanding the dynamics of virtual teams and overcoming geographical challenges using technology. Key elements include developing organizational charts, staffing plans, and building trust within dispersed teams. Lessons extend to professional applications in team management, highlighting strategies for effective collaboration despite distance. Additionally, stakeholder management is explored as crucial for career success, underlining its role in fostering a sustainable competitive edge and ethical business practices.

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Part A:
Launching the group assessment (HR plan)
The lessons presented in modules 1-4 are highly applicable to our experience of
launching the group assessment (HR plan). From the Module 4, I was able to
understand what it takes to be an effective global project manager. This was made
clear since I got to know that it has become a commonplace for us to work with
virtual teams. I was able to understand the reality today that even small firms are
comfortable with the virtual teams due to their outsourcing operations to source
healthier economics. We were able to appreciate that physical distance is no longer a
barrier to doing business because of improvements in communications and
technology. The virtual project managers, however, face come unique challenges. Via
the examination of the rewards and pressures of the virtual teams and how levels of
authority vary between physical present teams and virtual teams, we able to fully
understand how best we could launch the group assessment, HT plan. Understanding
the challenges in building the circle of trust around the team especially when he group
is dispersed geographically remained applicable in our experience because our work
was based on group, and hence the need to override such challenges. As reflected in
Modules 4 and 3, especially on Human Resource Plan, I understood the need to
develop an organizational chart for the project team, a staffing plan and a team
building plan. This chart was useful in ensuring that we remained focus on our scope
to achieve the desired goals.

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Team building and management apply to professional experience and careers.
The lessons presented in this subject on team building and management are highly
applicable to our professional experience and careers. As clearly covered in Module
4, we able to fully understand how to build a virtual team using communication and
technology. From here, we got to understand the challenges presented to virtual
teams project managers and how to effectively mitigate them. In doing so, I was able
to be a team player even in the face of challenges. This is applicable to my
professional experience and career as I always work in team work to achieve the goal
of the organization. I was able to grasp the effective strategies for the management of
virtual project teams and effectively apply the strategies that motivate geographically
dispersed and other kinds of virtual project teams. This is useful in my professional
experience and career because it is the basis upon which I will be able to fit into any
organization since I cannot work in isolation. Also, I was able to understand the how
to develop and effective project team and team building plan. This is applicable to
my professional experience and career because I will be able to apply this in my
workplace to have an effective team that meets the project within the deadline.
Part B:
Experience of working on the group assessment (HR plan)
The lesson presented in this subject highly apply to my experience of working on
group assessment (HR plan). I was able to follow through right from the
requirements to completion of the HR plan. I appreciated the need to work as a team
when work on the HR plan. Even though we faced challenges as working with

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different people become difficult, I was able to apply the learned effective strategies
to build an effective team. This enable me to be competent and now I am able to
work in organization as a team player to develop an effective HR plan.
Stakeholder management and my professional experience and careers
In my view, the lessons presented in this module of stakeholders’ management
remain of great significance to my professional experience and career. The success
of any organization is based closely on the manner in which they involve and
manage their stakeholders. Thus in my career and professional development, I will
be able to apply the knowledge drawn from this lesson on stakeholder management
to create a sustained competitive edge in the organization I will be working for. This
will make me succeed as I will become a well-sought after employee. I will thus be a
happy person because of my productivity and the role I will be playing in managing
each stakeholder for the organization. This will make the organization I work for
succeed as each stakeholder, be it, a supplier, customer or government agencies
would want to associate with an ethical business. Thus I will seek to ethically
manage our stakeholders for the greater good of the company.