Virtual Team Success : A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance

by Lepsinger, Richard; DeRosa, Darleen

• ISBN13: 9780470532966
• ISBN10: 0470532963
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-19
• Publisher: Pfeiffer

Summary

This book leverages robust research studies and provides a practical resource for virtual team members and leaders. Based on a research study which is one of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted on virtual teams, this book offers a wealth of solid recommendations. To help organizations and leaders enhance virtual team performance, the book includes information on: key challenges, factors for success, characteristics of effective virtual teams, a model for success, effective practices, enhancing performance of low performing teams. The book also includes sections on future challenges and issues.

Author Biography

Darleen DeRosa, Ph.D., is a managing partner at OnPoint Consulting. She brings ten years of management consulting experience, with expertise in the areas of talent/succession management, executive assessment, virtual teams, and organizational assessment. Darleen has authored numerous articles on virtual teams.

Richard Lepsinger is president of OnPoint Consulting and has a twenty-year track record of success as a human resource consultant and executive. He is the coauthor of four books on leadership including Closing the Execution Gap: How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results, Flexible Leadership: Creating Value by Balancing Multiple Challenges and Choices, The Art and Science of 360? Feedback, and The Art and Science of Competency Models, all from Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.

Table of Contents

List of Tables, Case Studies, Figures, and Exhibits

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Building High-Performing Virtual Teams

Why Virtual Teams Fail

Key Challenges

Four Pitfalls to Virtual Team Performance

Conclusion

Profiles of Virtual Team Success-What Good Looks Like

Team Composition

Communication and Training

Leadership

Conclusion

Virtual Team Launch Kit

Test Your Virtual Team Launch IQ

Setting Virtual Teams Up for Success

Is Your Organization Prepared to Support Virtual Team Work?

Conclusion

What Differentiates Great Virtual Teams-How to RAMP Up Your Team's Performance

What Differentiates Top Virtual Teams?

The ShingleSeal Standstill: How Would You Handle It?

RAMP Up Virtual Team Performance

Conclusion

Leading Virtual Teams

How to Lead Virtual Teams-Tips, Techniques, and Best Practices for High Performance

Challenges Virtual Team Leaders Face

Raygen Company Slump: How Would You Handle It?

Virtual Team Leadership Self-Assessment

What Makes an Effective Virtual Team Leader?

Obstacles at a Glance: A Quick Reference Guide

Conclusion

What Factors Really Accelerate Virtual Team. Performance-The Four Top Performance Boosters

Taking Virtual Team Performance to the Next Level

Conclusion

Facilitating High-Impact Virtual Meetings-Techniques. That Really Work

The Facilitator's Role

V-Meeting Checklist

Building a V-Meeting Agenda

Keeping Virtual Meetings on Track

Dealing with Other Common Challenges

Conclusion

Conclusion: Six Lessons for Successful Virtual Teams

Focus on People Issues

No Trust, No Team

"Soft" Skills are Essential

Watch Out For Performance Peaks

Create a "High-Touch" Environment

Virtual Team Leadership Matters

Closing Thoughts

Appendix: OnPoint's Global Virtual Team Study

Notes

About the Authors

Index

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