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Virtual Team: a group of employees using information and communications technologies to collaborate from different work bases. Members of a virtual team may work in different parts...; Virtual Team definition on BNET »

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Working Together From a Distance: Best Practices for High-Performance virtual teams: How do you empower geographically dispersed teams to work well together and equip leaders for success in an increasingly virtual workplace? Organizations that have successfully implemented an online workplace will tell you that communicating clearly is the key to remaining competitive. Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast as...; Tags: ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS, Team management, Leadership, Citrix Systems Inc., virtual team, electronic communication, workplace, online meeting, Webcast, team, product marketing, high-performance, best practice, leader; Webcasts 2008-02-14
Managing a virtual team: Managing a Virtual TeamBuilding Winning TeamsFor building good winning teams the following terms are pre-requisite:* Good Communication.* Good Understanding.* Good Relationship among partners.* Team-Spirit.; Tags: virtual team, Managing; Discussion threads 2007-08-10
Conducting Effective Performance Appraisals: People frequently appraise others and their performance. When chatting over coffee, it’s natural to talk about what other people have accomplished, and how effectively they’ve done it. But these informal conversations are generally based upon perception . They’re subjective and unreliable. Performance appraisals seek to redress this imbalance by making...; Tags: Performance management, Team management, BNET Editorial, Performance Appraisal, performance, Management By Objective, motivation, salary, virtual team, 360-degree, KPI, standards, team, worker, tool; Articles 2007-10-31
Leading Teams Across Continents: Until relatively recently, teams had regular face-to-face contact. Now, with globalization and advances in communication technology, it is both possible and efficient to form dispersed international teams whose members can take advantage of their respective localities, time zones, and economic circumstances.Being a member of a dispersed team is a very...; Tags: Team management, BNET Editorial, virtual team, team, continent, globalization, leadership, technique, telecommunications, Web, environment, job, video; Articles 2007-10-05
Conducting a 360-degree Appraisal: A 360-degree appraisal surveys and collects the views of all the appraised employee’s colleagues, including the manager, peers, direct reports, and, on occasion, clients. Additionally, the employee will generally rate himself, so that his views of how he impacts his colleagues can be added to the mix.There is no absolute...; Tags: Performance management, BNET Editorial, 360-degree, competence, virtual team, appraisal, team, environment, agent, survey, job, performance; Articles 2007-09-28

Successful Motivational Techniques for virtual teams: Sophistication of the virtual team is measured in terms of how well the team responds to the client's expectations in the areas of scope, quality, cost, and schedule. However, the success of the team in achieving these project results depends on how well the team members relate to one another...; Tags: Team management, virtual team, team, technique; White papers 2006-11-08
Managing a virtual team: In today’s globally connected world, you may never physically meet important members of your work or project team. While electronic communication can’t replicate the chemistry of teams working together in the same place, by making good use of technology and thoughtful communication practices, you can still interact effectively with team...; Tags: team, virtual team, management; Articles 2007-04-20
Leadership Styles in virtual team Context: Limitations, Solutions and Propositions: This paper analyzes previous empirical investigations on leadership style in virtual team context. Inconsistencies were found in the prior studies: oversimplified comparison of transformational and transactional leadership and treating the two leadership styles as polar constructs. To overcome these drawbacks, approaching transformational and transactional behavior combinations at behavior component level...; Tags: virtual team, leadership style, leadership; White papers 2004-12-08
Rational Virtualization Opens E&P Eyes: At the core of successful virtualization is a data and applications hub, which includes a physical computing center, data management infrastructure, high-end visualization software and virtual team members who collaborate in real-time analyses using Web-based tools. The services deployed in this model include: real-time drilling operations, prospect generation, exploration in...; Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, Landmark Graphics Corp., virtualization, virtual team, data management, Web; White papers 2003-10-01
Crossing Oceans and Firewalls Project Management for virtual teams: The way one works today has changed - businesses are often geographically distributed, working with partners to support operations in other countries and utilizing outsourced services more than ever. Often colleagues work for a different organization, in a different city, time zone or country. They may speak a different language....; Tags: Team management, SECURITY, data synchronization, virtual team, team, outsource, authentication, tool; White papers 2003-09-18
virtual teams — What Leaders Need to Know: Virtual teams are becoming a cornerstone of the new corporate landscape, and a key ingredient of agile and fast companies. Understanding and leading virtual teams is a leadership imperative. Customers are global and they are seeking solutions, not just products, which means they cross both geographic and internal corporate boundaries....; Tags: Senn-Delaney Leadership Consulting Group Inc., virtual team, leadership, leader, team, environment; White papers 2003-01-01
Virtually Yours, /s/ Your virtual team: A virtual team is comprised of team members who share responsibility for turning out defined work and for achieving defined objectives, and who perform from a flexible mix of stationary, mobile, and/or remote work environments. A cross-functional virtual team is the same, except that members are drawn from a spectrum...; Tags: Team management, virtual team, matrix management, team, emotional intelligence, groupware, customer satisfaction, training, benefit, environment, mobile; White papers 2003-01-01
Performance Metrics For virtual teams: Performance measurement is essential for enhancing the productivity of an organization. It enables the organization to ascertain the gaps prevalent in the performance of the employees. Having known that, training programs can be designed to close the same. The paper examines the metrics for performance measurement of virtual teams. ...; Tags: Performance management, virtual team, performance, training; White papers 2003-01-01
The Supervisor’s Job is Performance Support: The article asserts that we live in an era of unprecedented improvements in business productivity and increasingly sophisticated, high performance systems. Computer-mediated communications provide companies, managers and teams 24/7 global reach and unparalleled business opportunities. By simplifying and speeding up business communications, technology often creates the illusion of a “conflict-free”,...; Tags: Workforce management, virtual team, supervisor, high performance system, business productivity, high-performance, performance, collaboration, environment, team, job, information technology, computer; White papers 2003-01-01
Leading virtual teams: Article provides the description of five essential skills that will help one to lead any project, no matter how distant. Efficient participation in today's economy demands high reliance on effective leadership of technical and support teams whose members are scattered across many geographic boundaries. There are unique and distinctive requirements...; Tags: Team management, QCI International, leadership, team, virtual team, vision; White papers 2003-01-01
The Multi-Faceted Nature of virtual teams: Advances in information technology, coupled with competitive pressures, have led to the increasing use of virtual teams in organizations. Their growing popularity has attracted the attention of researchers in both information systems and organizational behaviour. In the view, a preliminary but necessary step is to investigate the multifaceted nature of...; Tags: Virtual Team; White papers 2002-11-01
On Defining Virtual Emotional Intelligence: In this paper virtual teams are defined as living systems and as such made up of people with different needs and characteristics. Groups generally perform better when they are able to establish a high level of group cohesion. According to Druskat and Wolff [2001] this status can be reached by...; Tags: Leadership, emotional intelligence, cohesion, virtual team; White papers 2002-06-08
virtual team Interactions in Networked Multimedia Games: This paper describes the findings of the ethnographical research concentrating on multiplayer games. The research methods used are qualitative. The preliminary analysis indicates that, according to the players, the support for team interaction in action games is adequate. However, the players tend to communicate outside the game system. The aim...; Tags: Games, virtual team, game, analysis, team; White papers 2002-01-23
The Discipline of virtual teams: Virtual teaming is about engendering a feeling of togetherness, teamwork, and empowerment. Instead, team performance requires adherence to a simple set of disciplined behaviors that we call "team basics." When applied to appropriate performance challenges, that discipline produces results that are clearly superior to what small groups can obtain...; Tags: Team management, supplier relationship management, virtual team, team, teamwork, strategic alliance, workplace, outsourcing, collaboration, cell phone, performance, phone, Internet; White papers 2001-10-01
Connection In Creative virtual teams: This paper describes a qualitative study investigating the work environment necessary for virtual teams to be creative. Nine virtual teams, with a total of 36 team members participated. Grounded theorizing was used to analyze the data and generate meaning. Connection, defined as the elements that need to be in place...; Tags: virtual team, realization, team, environment; White papers 2001-04-01