Virtual Team Success : A Practical Guide for

This book leverages robust research studies and provides a practical resource for virtual team members and leaders. Based on a research study which is one of the most comprehensive studies ever conducted on virtual teams, this book offers a wealth of solid recommendations. To help organizations and leaders enhance virtual team performance, the book includes information on: key challenges, factors for success, characteristics of effective virtual teams, a model for success, effective practices, enhancing performance of low performing teams. The book also includes sections on future challenges and issues.

Darleen DeRosa, Ph.D., is a managing partner at OnPoint Consulting. She brings ten years of management consulting experience, with expertise in the areas of talent/succession management, executive assessment, virtual teams, and organizational assessment. Darleen has authored numerous articles on virtual teams.

Richard Lepsinger is president of OnPoint Consulting and has a twenty-year track record of success as a human resource consultant and executive. He is the coauthor of four books on leadership including Closing the Execution Gap: How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results, Flexible Leadership: Creating Value by Balancing Multiple Challenges and Choices, The Art and Science of 360? Feedback, and The Art and Science of Competency Models, all from Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.

List of Tables, Case Studies, Figures, and Exhibits
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Building High-Performing Virtual Teams
Why Virtual Teams Fail
Key Challenges
Four Pitfalls to Virtual Team Performance
Conclusion
Profiles of Virtual Team Success-What Good Looks Like
Team Composition
Communication and Training
Leadership
Conclusion
Virtual Team Launch Kit
Test Your Virtual Team Launch IQ
Setting Virtual Teams Up for Success
Is Your Organization Prepared to Support Virtual Team Work?
Conclusion
What Differentiates Great Virtual Teams-How to RAMP Up Your Team's Performance
What Differentiates Top Virtual Teams?
The ShingleSeal Standstill: How Would You Handle It?
RAMP Up Virtual Team Performance
Conclusion
Leading Virtual Teams
How to Lead Virtual Teams-Tips, Techniques, and Best Practices for High Performance
Challenges Virtual Team Leaders Face
Raygen Company Slump: How Would You Handle It?
Virtual Team Leadership Self-Assessment
What Makes an Effective Virtual Team Leader?
Obstacles at a Glance: A Quick Reference Guide
Conclusion
What Factors Really Accelerate Virtual Team. Performance-The Four Top Performance Boosters
Taking Virtual Team Performance to the Next Level
Conclusion
Facilitating High-Impact Virtual Meetings-Techniques. That Really Work
The Facilitator's Role
V-Meeting Checklist
Building a V-Meeting Agenda
Keeping Virtual Meetings on Track
Dealing with Other Common Challenges
Conclusion
Conclusion: Six Lessons for Successful Virtual Teams
Focus on People Issues
No Trust, No Team
"Soft" Skills are Essential
Watch Out For Performance Peaks
Create a "High-Touch" Environment
Virtual Team Leadership Matters
Closing Thoughts
Appendix: OnPoint's Global Virtual Team Study
Notes
About the Authors
Index
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Virtual Team Success : A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance

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