Virtual Leadership Skill : Virtual Leadership Skill M&C
Agosto 15/2010
What is Virtual Leadership? ? ? : What is Virtual Leadership? ? ? Just think about distances...
The new paradigm of work in the virtual team environment consists of team members working from anywhere at anytime in real space or cyberspace.
Let’s see how it apperared... : Let’s see how it apperared... In traditional organizations, team members are colocated, meet face-to-face and come from similar business units with a common cultural background. As teams become virtual, membership becomes more cross functional, more geographically dispersed, more culturally diverse and more temporary. These teams are assembled in response to specific needs and often are short-lived.
Slide 4 : To overcome these challenges, virtual teams rely heavily on information and communication technologies (ICT) such as e-mail, instant messaging, videoconferencing, computer-mediated communication systems, cell phones and voice mail.
The ultimate challenge for team leaders is to create a level of collaboration and productivity that rivals the experience of the best colocated teams. Leaders of these virtual teams must be able to facilitate team cohesiveness by taking full advantage of existing and emerging ICTs.
Virtual vs. Traditional : Virtual vs. Traditional Leaders in the traditional world manage by planning, organizing, controling, motivating and communicating
But….
In many cases, there is no need to meet face-to-face. In other cases, work teams can use any mode of communication available, from the cell phone to computer-mediated communication. But questions remain. Are these new virtual teams as effective as the standard face-to-face teams? Is there a different way to lead these teams? More importantly, how do we develop and train these new virtual leaders?
So... : So... Virtual leadership can occur at any hierarchical level in an organization and can involve one-to-one and one-to-many interactions within and across large units and organizations. It may be associated with one individual or shared by several individuals, as its locus changes over time.
Slide 7 : Virtual leadership is a new term for a new situation. Companies that perpetuate the myth that virtual teaming is business as usual, just on a distributed scale, often encounter serious challenges in team communication and conflict resolution. On the other hand, companies conscious of developing and maintaining a high quality of trusting relationships are better prepared to successfully develop common purposes, operating principles, goals, roles, expectations, and milestones. It is the human interpersonal relationship ingredient, often called emotional intelligence (EI), which unites highly qualified people in different locations.Read more: Virtual leadership: New challenge for managers - Portland Business Journal
KEY BEHAVIOURS! : KEY BEHAVIOURS! Create--and communicate--the big picture.
Establish best practices. Setting and communicating high expectations can save considerable headaches in process and performance.
Establish clear communication channels. For virtual teams, active collaboration is key, and the proper use of groupware is imperative in creating and editing joint work projects and their documentation.
Slide 9 : Be a role model.
Fine-tune your ability to understand multiple perspectives.
Be skilled at leading in a cross-cultural environment. It's important to pay particular attention to cultural differences when it comes to information needs.
SUMMARIZING : SUMMARIZING
Help Tools: : Help Tools: Mailing
Skype
Sms and phone-calls
Blackboards
ALL YOU CAN IMAGINE!!!