Mgt508 Virtual Teams Paper
Virtual Teams:
An Exercise in Team Building
MGT508: Leadership of Teams - Module 1 SLP
Team International, Summer 2014
Grace Anderson
John Cory
Eric Ni
Gary Thompson
Professor: Dr. Virginia Johnson
Virtual Teams: An Exercise in Team Building
Virtual teams are becoming more and more common in today’s globally connected world. While virtual teams have unique attributes, they also share many similarities to traditional teams in that they must have an identity, a leadership structure, and continually evaluate their work. In an article for Forbes Magazine, Erin Meyer attributes the differences in four areas: leadership, decision making, building trust and communicating differently as the key to success of virtual teams (Meyer, 2010). …show more content…
However, based on the readings, iterative designs tend to not perform as well as modular or wheel designs (Aperian, 2012). For the next SLP, we will work on using a more modular approach and to have better structure in approaching the assignment. While it is frustrating to add another meeting in one’s free time, scheduling a meeting with all group members can greatly enhance the trust amongst team members and will lead to greater final product. “This includes regular and predictable times in which the team communicates via conference calls and e-mails and established norms of utilizing these communication technologies” (Aperian, 2012). Moreover, we can further increase our productivity by using a more structure approach, such as the Simplex process. “Rather than seeing problem-solving as a single straight-line process, Simplex is represented as a continuous cycle” (Simplex, 2007). Applied to the course, several steps in the Simplex process can be simplified or skipped. The first three steps of problem finding, fact finding, and problem definition are inherently defined by the materials given and additional research online. The next three steps of idea finding, selection and evaluation, and planning can be used to assign tasks to group members in accordance with our modular work design. This assignment should be ideally given out by end of the first week. This allows each group member to review his or her role and gives them enough time to sell the assignments to one another, possibly suggesting new ideas or roles based on their initial research, which coincidentally is the seventh step of the Simplex process. Finally, the last step is action, where the academic paper is submitted and the problem is
An Exercise in Team Building
MGT508: Leadership of Teams - Module 1 SLP
Team International, Summer 2014
Grace Anderson
John Cory
Eric Ni
Gary Thompson
Professor: Dr. Virginia Johnson
Virtual Teams: An Exercise in Team Building
Virtual teams are becoming more and more common in today’s globally connected world. While virtual teams have unique attributes, they also share many similarities to traditional teams in that they must have an identity, a leadership structure, and continually evaluate their work. In an article for Forbes Magazine, Erin Meyer attributes the differences in four areas: leadership, decision making, building trust and communicating differently as the key to success of virtual teams (Meyer, 2010). …show more content…
However, based on the readings, iterative designs tend to not perform as well as modular or wheel designs (Aperian, 2012). For the next SLP, we will work on using a more modular approach and to have better structure in approaching the assignment. While it is frustrating to add another meeting in one’s free time, scheduling a meeting with all group members can greatly enhance the trust amongst team members and will lead to greater final product. “This includes regular and predictable times in which the team communicates via conference calls and e-mails and established norms of utilizing these communication technologies” (Aperian, 2012). Moreover, we can further increase our productivity by using a more structure approach, such as the Simplex process. “Rather than seeing problem-solving as a single straight-line process, Simplex is represented as a continuous cycle” (Simplex, 2007). Applied to the course, several steps in the Simplex process can be simplified or skipped. The first three steps of problem finding, fact finding, and problem definition are inherently defined by the materials given and additional research online. The next three steps of idea finding, selection and evaluation, and planning can be used to assign tasks to group members in accordance with our modular work design. This assignment should be ideally given out by end of the first week. This allows each group member to review his or her role and gives them enough time to sell the assignments to one another, possibly suggesting new ideas or roles based on their initial research, which coincidentally is the seventh step of the Simplex process. Finally, the last step is action, where the academic paper is submitted and the problem is