Our teams are becoming more globally dispersed, virtual and culturally diverse and technology driven, often resulting in an increased complexity and sometimes disorientation of the team members. To increase the effectiveness of the virtual teams, its members must develop a set of virtual collaboration skills which are different from the traditional ones.

 

How to Increase effectiveness of Virtual team?

Reality Check: When building a virtual team it is crucial to be very clear about the nature of a team, its goals, objectives and agreements. On a soft-side, a virtual team can only effectively work together when its members build the necessary virtual collaboration skills: the employees should be self-motivated, result-oriented, self-reliant and great communicators and team players. The reality check will show the strengths and weaknesses of your current team, the degree of alignment and understanding of the team goals and objectives as well as technological fluency. It will measure preferences around working methods and communication styles; differences in thinking styles, etc. Meetings can be shadowed by one of our consultants and debriefed with team members. This awareness will open a dialogue window within the team regarding on the way to proceed and the selection between the following actions:

4| Virtual team building

5| Virtual team coaching