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	CCO - Research Paper - Virtual Teams
		Virtual teams have evolved as a way to make working across continents and countries an easy, practical way to achieve superior results-- people must no longer be co-located, or in the same place, in order to work together.
		Virtual team members do not have the benefit of receiving feedback from supervisors on a daily basis, therefore, special times should be set aside during which supervisors provide this feedback.
		Virtual team members need to alert their respective organizations that members are on the verge of re-entry, which helps leaders more effectively plan how to utilize the knowledge and skills gained by the virtual member (George, 1996).
	www.workteams.unt.edu /literature/paper-ccantu.html (3555 words)

	Learning Safari Newsletter - Virtual Team Communication Technologies
		Everyone on the team must have access to the same technology, and it must work reliably for each team member (globally, this may be more difficult, as better technology can be a sign of higher status, but the ability to share information and collaborate is a basic requirement for task productivity).
		Team leaders need to be able to track all of the different tasks and work going on automatically, and this distributed technology is just about the only way to do it.
		A team should meet face to face at three points (at least) in its life cycle: (1) when forming, (2) at the midpoint of a project when the team dynamics begin to shift to more advanced problems, and (3) at the conclusion of the project or when membership or mission changes significantly.
	www.learningsim.com /content/lsnews/virtual_communication_tech.html (918 words)

	Virtual team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of 21 virtual teams, sixty-five percent claimed that they’d had never participated in an effective team building session, thirty-six percent said they had never met their team members face to face.
		Teams that had been together for less than a year were more productive and performed substantially better than teams that had been together for more than a year.
		Teams must be careful to use the appropriate technology for various tasks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virtual_team (1595 words)

	Teambuilding Inc. Article - Starting up a Virtual Team
		As team members began to feel more confident and their work together accelerated, a key senior manager who was not previously involved with the process, began adding new expectations and challenged the established set of priorities.
		Virtual team members should be involved in a dialogue that assures their individual and collective clarity of how the successful performance of their team will be defined and how their individual efforts contribute to that end.
		Virtual teams are at a significant disadvantage, because they lack the regular, face-to-face social contact that can be so helpful to accelerate team development and relationship building.
	www.teambuildinginc.com /article_virtual.htm (2245 words)

	Virtual Teams
		A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.
		There are several different definitions of virtual teams, but what these definitions have in common is that, in addition to being a team, virtual team members are physically separated (by time and / or space) and that virtual team members primarily interact electronically.
		One way to think about teams is that teams are a network organization -- a set of nodes and links -- wherein the nodes are of course the team members and the links are the communications channels or primarily face-to-face interaction.
	www.seanet.com /~daveg/vrteams.htm (694 words)

	Virtual Teams: What Leaders Need to Know
		Their relationship as a team can be virtual relative to the task that needs to be done, or, it may be relative to the space in which they operate, e.g., a virtual space rather than physical space.
		In addition to using virtual teams for cross-organizational collaboration, more and more companies are building organizational structures which operate in virtual space, where employees and their managers reside in multiple physical locations.
		One of the keys to understanding and leading virtual teams, is seeing that organization structure and formal hierarchy is less important to their effectiveness than the behaviors, norms and habits of the organization, e.g., the culture.
	www.sdlcg.com /sdlsite/Articles/virtualteams.htm (1357 words)

	Managing and Leading the Virtual Team
		A virtual team is a collection of individuals operating from many different places, all of whom are working to accomplish a common goal.
		Virtual teams let you flexibly use the intellectual and skill resources of just about anyone, anywhere--while minimizing the need for costly travel, hosting and meeting expenses.
		And from a social and cultural perspective, virtual teams permit employees to more smoothly blend their work and family lives--since so much of what they need to do for "work" can now be done virtually anywhere.
	www.virtualhrcenter.com /SkillDesc/SkillSoft/series_team_220.htm (202 words)

	Glenn Parker, Team Building Consultant - VTA: Virtual Team Assessment
		It's clear that virtual team are not co-located and have few opportunities for face-to-face meetings and informal communications that are integral to conventional, one-site teams.
		The team's goals and project plan must be a unifying force that incorporates the organization's strategy, the objectives of the various disciplines on the team and the needs of team members.
		The team's culture is consistent with, and its members are competent to work in, a virtual team environment.
	www.glennparker.com /Freebees/virtual-team-assessment.html (607 words)

	Monster Talent Market: Working on Virtual Teams
		Because virtual teams live on communication, a single set of assumptions about communication and what it means to say X and do Y is essential for successful virtual collaborations.
		Virtual teams spend more time on task mechanics and on planning what they're going to do compared with traditional office-based workgroups, explains Jennifer Verive, CEO of White Rabbit Virtual, a northern California firm that develops training and assessment programs for teleworkers.
		The overall success of a virtual team depends largely on the team's leader, who needs to act as a personal leader, motivating people, relieving stresses and counseling them at a distance.
	content.talentmarket.monster.com /workyourcareer/virtualteams (631 words)

	Technology, Virtual Work Trends
		Teaming Up 61 percent of employees in large companies (those with at least 500 employees) have participated in virtual project teams.
		The majority (60%) of those who want to work on virtual teams report that they anticipate it will become a part of their job in the next five years.
		Of all the communications tools relied upon in a virtual project team, email (used by 94%) and audioconferencing (used by 70%) are the leaders.
	www.effectivemeetings.com /technology/virtualteam/mci10.asp (874 words)

	* * * v i r t u a l T E A M W O R K S . c o m * * *
		The Virtua Team Profile (VTP) collects information from your responses to items, and returns an overall analysis of your virtual team and how useful one of our virtual teaming programs may be for them.
		The smaller the shaded area is within the profile, the lesser is the need for virtual teaming programs; while the larger the shaded area is, the greater the need is for a program.
		As you complete this survey, please imagine the virtual team you normally work with or the collection of all virtual teams in your company and respond to questions accordingly.Answer these questions to the best of your ability or knowledge and feel free to leave blank any question that you do not wish to answer.
	www.virtualteamworks.com /INST/vtp.htm (450 words)

	Virtual Office Services
		Virtual office services allow users to create context-rich, shared workspaces and to actively participate in virtual teams with team members in multiple locations.
		Virtual Teams is Web-based portal technology that allows workers from any location to create teams, organize projects and share information through enhanced collaboration and real-time interaction.
		With Virtual Teams, employees can conduct meetings on the fly, connect with key team members at any time, and keep business moving without having to be at a specific location.
	www.novell.com /collateral/4621351/4621351.html (3929 words)

	The Secret to Being an Effective Virtual Team (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A successful “virtual team” can bridge the distance, but with any team?virtual or traditional?communication is the key to productivity.
		If a team does not deliberately create them, they will develop on their own…which may be problematic.
		Virtual teams are the way of the future…but they use many of the features of successful business units of yesterday and today.
	www.virtualteambuilders.com /articles4.cfm (674 words)

	Virtual Teams, Managing the Five C's
		Yet for virtual team members, your words are often most or all of what they have to go on; they don’t necessarily have the opportunity to pick up on the nonverbal cues that make up so much of your message.
		Finally, make answering your virtual team members’ emails and phone calls a priority to make up for the fact that they can’t drop by your desk or catch you in the hall with a quick question.
		Your live teams can take advantage of their proximity to have discussions about issues without you there, and in doing so they often develop ideas they might not feel comfortable bringing up and working through in your presence.
	www.buildingteams.com /teambuilding_articles/virtualteams.htm (957 words)

	BN 301 Virtual Team Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The intent is for your team to work virtually on this project – to simulate globally "far-flung" teams who work together from remote locations and rarely, if ever, meet face-to-face.
		Your team is one of the teams vying for the consulting project, and you will make a pitch to sell the client on choosing your team to execute a plan.
		Functioning with far less oversight than is customary for a traditional team, everyone on a virtual team must understand and agree with the purpose....We cannot overstate the value of a virtual team cycling through its purpose-setting exercise several times...
	www.stetson.edu /~khansen/bn301/virtual_team_project.html (1981 words)

	Virtual Team Management: Coaching Virtual Team Members
		In Virtual Team Management: Coaching Virtual Team Members, you will learn how to use coaching techniques to improve your virtual team members' performance, such as how to prevent and resolve conflict in virtual teams and how to provide recognition appropriately.
		In this simulation, you will meet with three members of a team that is responsible for ensuring a software system is delivered on time to a customer and implemented correctly.
		The team consists of a delivery coordinator, who offices in the same building with you, and an offsite account manager and sales engineer.
	www.netg.com /catalog/detail.asp?c=US42303 (552 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Despite the benefits of increased virtualization in the workplace there are real and tangible business risks from managing a virtual workforce.
		Virtual Distance International is a research-based consulting firm with a deep understanding of the new challenges companies face in 21
		Our research has identified the real and measurable components of Virtual Distance that dramatically impacts team and organizational success.
	www.virtualdistance.com (105 words)

	Virtual Team Leadership
		Virtual teams were almost unheard of a decade ago, but today they are an integral part of every organization.
		The recent “offshore outsourcing” trend and the growth of the Internet and similar globally linking technologies are major contributor to the increase in the use of virtual teams.
		Virtual teams are made up of people working on interdependent tasks and interacting largely via communication technology to achieve a common goal without concerns of time and space.
	web.njit.edu /~jerry/Virtual-Team-Leadership.html (1069 words)

	Technology, Features - Virtual Teaming
		This means that a team may comprise of individuals from a variety of cultural backgrounds.
		Not surprisingly, virtual teams are likely to plan ahead better for recurring meetings than for ad-hoc meetings.
		It is complicated to build successful virtual teams because solutions need to blend people, process and technology, not just use technology.
	www.effectivemeetings.com /technology/virtualteam/virtualteaming.asp (1595 words)

	Virtual team productivity - three action rules from nature - The Bumble Bee
		In a previous article, Virtual Teams - a new paradigm from nature, I have argued that traditional teams have key weaknesses and limitations and are now being replaced in organizations by Virtually Networked Teams.
		Human bioteams need to imitate nature by becoming teams of peers and leaders where every member understands that it is central to their role as a bioteam member to be on the look-out for just-in-time, critical information which may be of value to the team as a whole.
		Once your teams embody the principle "Treat every team member like a leader" you will have be ready to explore and experiment with the more advanced bioteaming concepts.
	www.bioteams.com /2005/07/01/virtual_team_productivity.html (2440 words)

	Virtual team simulator helps leaders - The Bumble Bee
		For example many virtual team and virtual network outcomes are counter-intuitive due to the complex living nature of the team itself.
		The idea behind this paper and the simulation system was to create an safe environment where virtual team leaders could personally experience some of the mistakes they would make in running a virtual team but without damaging themselves or other team members or destroying a project’s chance of success.
		The prototype is limited to a particular form of virtual team known as a Virtual Enterprise Network (VEN) and addresses resource trade-off decisions in the areas of business development, member development and network development on a monthly basis over a 12-36 month period.
	www.bioteams.com /2006/02/19/virtual_team_simulator.html (1111 words)

	TMA Virtual Team Navigator
		Introducing Virtual Team Navigatorâ¢, a powerful online resource that continually assesses the strength and challenges faced by virtual teams and goes on to help managers and team facilitators quickly identify opportunities to increase performance.
		Benchmarking allows teams to assess their performance in relation to other teams in their department, organisation or industry as a whole.
		Teams can assess their performance over time using detailed analysis.
	www.virtualteamnavigator.com (148 words)

	Virtual Team Building Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		and Associates can bring your staff together— whether they are around the block or around the world—to create “virtual teams.” Without traveling and accommodation expenses standing in the way and with little disruption to “business as usual,” virtual teams offer the most productive and cost-effective way to keep all project managers in synch and inspired.
		Virtual team building using video conferencing can be done for almost half the cost of traditional meetings.
		For example, a typical one-day meeting of 20 people, with 16 of the participants requiring travel, could run as high as $47,000 once all variables are factored in.
	www.virtualteambuilders.com /pressrelease1.cfm (453 words)

	Virtual team pointers
		Go back to basics for virtual team success, says Jeff Wenger, vice president and CTO of Haworth, N.J.-based Tax Technologies, who works in Bradenton, Fla. "Hire people that are senior in their field, self-motivated, and somebody you can trust.
		Virtual team meeting outcomes, including specific assignments and deadlines, should be clarified in meeting minutes and sent out via e-mail shortly after the meeting, many experts say.
		Although there is consensus that virtual teams are here to stay, there is no guarantee that corporations will get all the potential benefits of the virtual team by using standard management techniques.
	www.infoworld.com /articles/ca/xml/01/07/16/010716caknow.html (1135 words)

	New Virtual U - Team
		Trevor Chan, lead designer for Virtual U, is widely recognized as one of the world's premier developers of strategy and simulation computer games.
		Virtual U, the newest title to be issued by Enlight Software, was co-developed by Chan and William Massy, president of the Jackson Hole Higher Education Group.
		Building on the success of Capitalism in the context of higher education, Virtual U simulates the operation of a university or college with painstaking realism.
	www.virtual-u.org /team (687 words)

	Knowledge Jolt with Jack: Making virtual teams work
		Cutting Through points to a great paper on "Making virtual teams work." Trust is a huge aspect of any teams, and as this paper discusses, our ability to create and maintain trust in virtual environments is somewhat limited.
		Trust is a huge aspect of any teams, and as this paper discusses, our ability to create and maintain trust in virtual environments is somewhat limited.
		The issue with virtuality is that in the traditional way we manage these things, there is no opportunity or capacity to build these aspects into the teams.
	blog.jackvinson.com /archives/2005/09/02/making_virtual_teams_work.html (958 words)

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