Collaboration in Virtual Teams

Overview/Description
 This course describes the critically important role of collaboration required in order to create, manage and lead virtual teams.

Target Audience
 Top-level managers, training managers, human resource managers, functional managers, supervisors, team leaders

Expected Duration
3.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Collaboration in a Virtual World

  • recognize the benefits of using different kinds of collaborative systems.
  • identify productive uses of open systems.
  • distinguish between appropriate or inappropriate uses of a closed system.
  • identify situations where using a chaotic system will produce higher levels of virtual team collaboration.

    • Trust and Commitment in Virtual Teams

  • recognize the critical importance of trust and commitment in managing virtual teams.
  • identify various skills managers need in order to obtain commitment from virtual teams.
  • match different forms of power with their effects on trust in virtual teams.
  • select ways of successfully dealing with virtual team politics.

    • Flexible Collaboration in Virtual Teams

  • recognize the benefits of designing flexible virtual teams.
  • distinguish between symptoms of poorly designed and well-designed virtual teams.
  • select the best practices for keeping virtual team collaboration on track.
  • sequence the steps necessary for assessing a virtual team's collaborative performance.

    • Process Thinking

  • recognize the value of process thinking for virtual team collaboration.
  • distinguish between businesses using equilibrium and process orientation.
  • select correct applications of the principle of subsidiarity in a virtual team situation.
  • match self-organizing skills to their effects on virtual teams.

    • Course Number: TEAM0223