Leading teams across distance, time and culture requires good team leadership skills. Audioconferencing and videoconferencing, online document sharing, email, voice-mail and fax technologies have been developed to assist teams that can't meet face-to-face. But the technology doesn't supplant the need for skilled leadership.
What do you do? Start by making three commitments:
- Know the principles that build empowered teams and follow them.
- Zealously battle obstacles arising from time, distance and cultural diversity.
- Match the technology you choose to your communication and information needs.
When you hire a virtual team you are completely incharge of the proceedings.Just the members co-ordinate electronically and may be some of the members of the virtual team never see each other. But thats no problem as far as the work is completed and the project is delievered in time. Leading Virtual Teams is very easy as in the initial stages the virtual team members decide on a mode of communication Wheter it is via email / chat / telephone etc. So by keeping an eye on proceedings and issuing instructions is no problem, leading a virtual team is very easy.
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