Virtual Teams (teams developed and/or operated over the Internet/Web)
Note that the reader might best be served to first read the topic Group Dynamics to understand the basic nature of most groups and their typical stages of development. (It's not clear at this time if online groups have similar nature and stages.)
Sections of This Topic Include:
Basics
Managing and Leading Virtual Teams
A Virtual Team Toolkit
Additional Perspectives
Free Services to Provide Online Meetings
Facilitation
Library
Basics
Basics
About Virtual Teams
Virtual
Teams and Business Networks
Working
by Wire
Long Live the Virtual Team
Glossary
About Virtual Organizations
Managing and Leading Virtual Teams
Leading
Virtual Teams
Managing Virtual Teams
Also see:
Computers,
Internet & Web
Facilitating
Online
Online
Board Meetings
Netiquette
- Techniques and styles of writing e-mail messages
A Virtual Team Toolkit
The following links comprise a complete toolkit for building, leading and ensuring high-quality virtual teams. The toolkit is provided by Stevie Peterson and Velda Stohr, both of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. Note that each of the following links is to a section of the overall toolkit. (You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Free Reader to read the documents referenced by the following links.)
Virtual
Teams: A Toolkit for OD Practitioners, Leaders and Members of
Virtual Teams
About
the Authors
Definition
of Virtual Teams
Team
Building in Virtual Teams
Communication
Media and Tools (hints, tips, using e-mail, etc.)
Managing
and Leading Virtual Teams
Organization
Development Tools and Virtual Teams
Human
Resources and Virtual Teams
References
About Virtual Teams
Additional Perspectives
Factors Influencing Virtual Teams
Implicit Communication and Culture: What it Means for Leading Virtual Teams
Virtual
Team Analysis
Recommendations
for Virtual Teams
Communications
Technology and Virtual Organisation
Intranet
Challenges: Online Work and Communication
Manipulate Perceptions to Improve Virtual Team Performance
Free services to organize online meetings
http://www.listbot.com
http://www.egroups.com
DimDim (free online meetings)
Also see:
For the Category of Facilitation and Teams:
Related Library Topics
Recommended Books
Program Planning Kit to develop
high-quality peer coaching group program
- by Carter McNamara, MBA, PHD, published by Authenticity Consulting, LCC. The program planning kit provides step-by-step guidelines to plan, market (internally or externally), facilitate and evaluate a high-quality peer coaching group program for any application our outcome. The kit includes a program planning guidebook, a facilitator's guidebook and a guidebook for members of a peer coaching group.
The following books are recommended because of their highly practical nature and often because they include a wide range of information about this Library topic. To get more information about each book, just hover your cursor over the image of the book. A "bubble" of information will be displayed. You can click on the title of the book in that bubble to get more information, too.
Also See
Strategic Planning (Facilitating) -- Recommended Books
Organizational Development (Facilitating) -- Recommended Books
