INTRODUCTION

WELCOME

Hi everyone. Welcome to my blog.  My name is Kajal Rani. The topic of my blog is Techniques for virtual teams. A virtual team is a group of individuals who work together from large distances either through Skype, video conference, or voice conference. A virtual team is also known as geographically dispersed team, distributed team or remote team because the members of the virtual team are located in different parts of the world. Unlike traditional teams, virtual team members don't meet each other daily.  Virtual teams has helped to increase globalization to a higher extend. As it is important to learn about the today's trends in the society, I have decided this particular topic for my blog. This is to increase my reader's knowledge about the virtual teams. I hope you will enjoy reading this. Please feel free to leave your comments and opinions.

Virtual teams allow companies to produce the best talent without geographical restrictions. Members of virtual teams communicate electronically and may never meet face to face. There should be a sense of co-operation and unity among the team members.

A MODEL FOR VIRTUAL TEAMS

According to Lipnack and Stamps, “Virtual teams have three facets: purpose, people, and links" (Lipnack & Stamps, 1999).

1.  Purpose: A purpose is very important to form any virtual team as it holds the team together. This is because the purpose is the only reason due to which different people from long distances communicate with each other. There is no use of wasting anybody’s time without any purpose. Only the people with specific or similar purpose share their views. The purpose act as a glue between different members of the team.

2.  People: People are the role models in a virtual team. It is the behavior and abilities of a person which is responsible for the better outcomes of a company. It is beneficial to have a team member who is responsible and who have knowledge and experience about the topic for which the team has formed. It is more profitable if all the people in the team come forward to participate as much as possible.

3.  Links: Links are the various connections among the group members. These are the ways by which the people communicate. These links can be either face to face communication (video calls) or messaging etc. These links are very important to build up relationships between the team members.

 

REFERENCES:

1.      How to manage virtual teams. (2015). Retrieved from: http://globalpeopletransitions.com/how-to-manage-virtual-teams/

2.      Lipnack, Jessica; stamps, Jeffrey (1999). Virtual teams. Executive Excellence, 16(5), 14-15. Retrieved from: http://search.proquest.com.library.sheridanc.on.ca/docview/204595536?pq-origsite=summon