Building a Virtual Team
Building a virtual team
Saturday August 26, 2012
Building a virtual team
A virtual team is a group of individuals who work across time, space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology. Several key factors can cause a virtual team to succeed or to go down the drains such as lack of interest, lack of directions and difference of work ethic. We can describe the key challenges and pitfalls to virtual teams as such:
Some virtual team lack of clear and precise directions, some team leaders just send an email to the group without precise directions and expect the project to go as smoothly as possible. My last virtual team consisted of advertising and promotion for beauty products. It was a complete disaster because the leader did not provide the group with a clear description of the products, every time I sent an email or text message I had to wait as long as a hour to get a reply back. Lack of direction and communication plays a big factor to break a virtual team. With the new technology and members of team that scattered around the world a team leader needs to be very knowledgeable and very precise. Managing a virtual team is no easy task because the face to face interaction is not present only email, messenger and phone messaging connect the group. (Gregory, 2010,)
Lack of intimacy and experience between members of a virtual team is a bad because if the members do not work together the project will not last. Virtual teams should only consist of competent and experienced team members due to the distance factor which can overtly affect the timing and completion date of a project. Projects are more likely to fail if the team consists of individuals who are lazy or lack sufficient knowledge to complete their assigned tasks. It only takes one incompetent team member to have a negative effect on the rest of the team. Knowledge
Building a virtual team in a virtual group is a must because if the team leader is unable
Saturday August 26, 2012
Building a virtual team
A virtual team is a group of individuals who work across time, space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology. Several key factors can cause a virtual team to succeed or to go down the drains such as lack of interest, lack of directions and difference of work ethic. We can describe the key challenges and pitfalls to virtual teams as such:
Some virtual team lack of clear and precise directions, some team leaders just send an email to the group without precise directions and expect the project to go as smoothly as possible. My last virtual team consisted of advertising and promotion for beauty products. It was a complete disaster because the leader did not provide the group with a clear description of the products, every time I sent an email or text message I had to wait as long as a hour to get a reply back. Lack of direction and communication plays a big factor to break a virtual team. With the new technology and members of team that scattered around the world a team leader needs to be very knowledgeable and very precise. Managing a virtual team is no easy task because the face to face interaction is not present only email, messenger and phone messaging connect the group. (Gregory, 2010,)
Lack of intimacy and experience between members of a virtual team is a bad because if the members do not work together the project will not last. Virtual teams should only consist of competent and experienced team members due to the distance factor which can overtly affect the timing and completion date of a project. Projects are more likely to fail if the team consists of individuals who are lazy or lack sufficient knowledge to complete their assigned tasks. It only takes one incompetent team member to have a negative effect on the rest of the team. Knowledge
Building a virtual team in a virtual group is a must because if the team leader is unable
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