Chapter 6Starting Up (or Refocusing) a Virtual Team
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
—Henry Ford
In several of the preceding chapters we referred to a number of tools that help virtual teams create a functional culture and address many of the problems common to virtual teams. In this chapter we discuss those tools. They include charters, role clarification, and operating guidelines, and we show you how you can employ these three tools to make your virtual teams more effective.
Virtual teams often report that their members suffer from a series of challenges, including using collaboration technologies effectively, overcoming feelings of isolation, and misalignments around tasks, purpose, ...
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