The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Virtual Teams: Make a success of your virtual global workforce.

By Paul Frederick Alexander

Think you know what it takes to run a successful virtual team? You may want to think again. Managing team members you have never met face-to-face, but who are key to your business, presents a unique challenge. 

Don’t worry. You’ve come to the right place for guidance. Discover the best-kept secrets that en

• Language: English
• Publisher: Solomon Key Publishing
• Release date: Jan 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9780993076251

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Habit N° 1 – Focus on the Business Advantage of Virtual Teams

Business Advantage

What’s in this chapter?

Why it’s worth understanding how to optimise virtual team performance

Two factors that set virtual teams apart – or make them more or less virtual

Where information and insights into virtual teams come from

Welcome to the Virtual World

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Ever since the rapid rise of the Internet and the associated exponential growth of online business, the topic of virtual teams has become inevitable. It is one of numerous evidences of the spread of Globalisation generally. Vendors produce increasingly advanced solutions for mobile and web communications, start-ups create virtual collaboration solutions that sometimes seem to border on science fiction, and journalists extol the exploits of organisations that achieve extraordinary results with teams distributed in the four corners of the world.

Yet understanding of what a virtual team actually is – let alone how to make it work optimally – seems to be as varied as the number of people discussing the matter. Is a virtual team one that never meets face-to-face? Is it one in which the team leader has no line-manager control over the other team members? Or is it a team that only exists as an electronic entity on the web, and that disappears when the power is turned