STEP EIGHT:

Use Virtual Team Techniques Effectively

  • Define a framework for virtual teaming
  • Determine elements of successful virtual teaming
  • Implement virtual team tools
  • Meeting face-to-face
  • Tips for virtual team leaders

Virtual teams aren't about technology, they are about the people. Technology is supporting the person-to-person communication and person-to-person interactions.

—Trish Uhl

It's 5 a.m. and dark outside. Inside, the glow of the computer monitor and the backlight on the cell phone provide the illumination. There are some voices talking somewhere, but there aren't any faces connected with them. Suddenly there's a pause and you realize that the voices were talking to you and are now waiting for your response. Is this a dream? ...

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