Virtual Team Success
A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance
Richard Lepsinger, Darleen DeRosa
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Virtual Team Success
A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance
Richard Lepsinger, Darleen DeRosa
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In today's complex organizations it is not uncommon to have as many as 50 percent of employees working on virtual teams. As the "virtual revolution" continues to spread, how can companies ensure that virtual team collaboration is producing the desired results?
Highly practical and easy to navigate, Virtual Team Success leverages the authors' robust global research study and hands-on experience to provide an immediately usable resource for virtual team members and team leaders. This groundbreaking book is a hands-on, practical toolkit filled with down-to-earth examples and insights that can enhance the virtual team experience for everyone involved.
The authors' research study is one of the most comprehensive applied studies ever conducted on virtual teams, and all of the recommendations outlined are based on these findings as well as the authors' years of experience helping virtual teams and virtual team leaders effectively lead and collaborate from a distance. To help organizations and leaders enhance virtual team performance, the book includes:
- Why Virtual Teams Fail— outlines the four pitfalls that frequently derail virtual teams
- Profile of High Performing Teams— addresses the characteristics of the most effective virtual teams and what makes them successful
- Virtual Team Launch Kit— provides practical guidelines and tools for successfully launching virtual teams
- How to RAMP Up Your Team's Effectiveness— introduces a practical research-based model of virtual team effectiveness to improve team performance
- Profile of Top Performing Virtual Team Leaders— identifies the practices of the most successful virtual team leaders
- Facilitating High-Impact Virtual Meetings— includes tips and techniques to effectively lead "v-meetings"
Virtual Team Success also includes practical resources for virtual team leaders, quick reference guides for diagnosing virtual team problems, and six lessons for virtual team success.
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Information
Section One
Building High-Performing Virtual Teams
Chapter One
Why Virtual Teams Fail
“You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options:Adapt or die. … You need to plan the way a fire department plans. It cannot anticipate fires, so it has to shape a flexible organization that is capable of responding to unpredictable events.”—Andrew S. Grove, Intel Corporation
- Why do many virtual teams fail to meet performance expectations?
- What differentiates the very best virtual teams from those that are less successful?
- What differentiates highly effective virtual team leaders from those that are less effective?
- In our study of the 304 individuals who worked on virtual teams, 25 percent reported that their teams were not fully effective.
- Third-party stakeholders who were familiar with a given team’s performance were asked to rate its effectiveness. Of forty-eight teams, 27 percent were perceived to be adequate or below adequate in terms of their overall performance.
- When team members and team leaders were asked to assess their effectiveness, 17 percent of the teams rated their own performance as being adequate or below adequate.
Key Challenges
Challenges | Percentage of Responses |
Lack of face-to-face contact with team members | 46% |
Lack of resources | 37% |
Time zone differences hinder our ability to collaborate | 29% |
Team members are on more than one team and cannot devote enough time to this team | 27% |
Team members do not share relevant information with one another | 21% |
Lack of skill training | 20% |