Virtual Team Success : A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance.
Richard. Lepsinger
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (221 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance -- Contents -- List of Tables, Case Studies, Figures, and Exhibits -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Why Virtual Teams Are More Prevalent -- How the Book Is Organized -- Finding What You Need: A Quick Reference Guide -- Section One: Building High-Performing Virtual Teams -- Chapter 1: Why Virtual Teams Fail -- Key Challenges -- Four Pitfalls to Virtual Team Performance -- Conclusion -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 2: Profiles of Virtual Team Success-What Good Looks Like -- Team Composition -- Communication and Training -- Leadership -- Conclusion -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 3: 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 -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 4: What Differentiates Great Virtual Team-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 -- The Bottom Line -- Section Two: Leading Virtual Teams -- Chapter 5: 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 -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 6: What Factors Really Accelerate Virtual Team Performance-The Four Top Performance Boosters -- Taking Virtual Team Performance to the Next Level -- Conclusion -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 7: How to Facilitate 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 -- The Bottom Line -- Conclusion: Six Lessons for Successful Virtual Teams -- Lesson 1: Focus on People Issues -- Lesson 2: No Trust, No Team -- Lesson 3: "Soft" Skills Are Essential -- Lesson 4: Watch Out For Performance Peaks -- Lesson 5: Create a "High-Touch" Environment -- Lesson 6: Virtual Team Leadership Matters -- Closing Thoughts -- The Bottom Line -- Appendix: OnPoint's Global Virtual Team Study -- Study Background -- Study Methodology -- Team Demographics -- Team Leader Demographics -- Criteria for Identifying Top-Performing Teams -- What Factors Impact Team Effectiveness? -- Team Leader Findings -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index.. - Praise for Virtual Team Success "There's no school for this yet, but when the first is established, Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance will certainly be the core curriculum." -Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps, CEO and co-founders, NetAge "Virtual Team Success is a must have for anyone managing geographically-dispersed teams. DeRosa and Lepsinger bring experience and credentials to guide us all through the labyrinth of problems that so often derail virtual teams. As our global businesses become increasingly complex, I can't imagine a more timely or better resource." -Jay Moldenhauer-Salazar, vice president, talent management, The Gap "For global teams that want to be top-performing, Virtual Team Success should be their team handbook. It's loaded with tools, checklists, models, and practical recommendations for working and leading from a distance. This is the kind of book virtual teams really need to be successful. I've been waiting for a book like this and look forward to recommending it as a resource that can help improve the performance of our teams!" -Kathleen McGuire, manager organizational development, Bayer Healthcare HR Global Leadership Development "Virtual teams are intended to make optimal use of expertise spread across the world, but performance excellence is the exception and mediocrity the rule. After extensive and careful study of real teams, DeRosa and Lepsinger have captured essential information, principles of operation, and tools in a highly readable volume that can help thoughtful readers elevate the performance of the teams significantly. The practical focus, collection of techniques and tools, and "how to" tips provide an essential foundation for anyone with virtual team responsibility. The organization of the book centered around challenges, differentiators, and lessons will. - facilitate finding answers to any problem the team faces. The RAMP model makes it easy to focus on what's important in enabling top performance." -Mike Beyerlein, professor, Organizational Leadership, Purdue University.
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| ISBN | 9780470872406
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