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Managing a Virtual Team with Great Influence
A virtual team is a team in which members work on the same projects influencing each other’s work and interacting with each other sitting at different places, mostly at their respective homes, and sometimes in different time zones. The members may sometimes meet with each other in person for important discussions. There is also a possibility that they may never ever meet face-to-face.These types of virtual teams are getting very popular in today’s world as it is the time of competition and working overseas with each other can save money with more quality work. And hence it is trending these days like anything.
Virtual Team Management Managing a virtual team is not that tough as well as not that easy. If one has proper resources and thorough understanding, then he/she can easily manage a virtual team quite effectively. The shortcomings of distance, communication, interaction, technology, culture, time zone etc. can be overcome by applying some logical vital practices in order to have a good quality virtual team work. First of all you need to have a proper understanding of the project, goal, capacity, resources, objectives, knowledge, time deadline and other vital factors.
Overcome the Shortcomings There can be various shortcomings working as a virtual team. Most important one is effective communication. Each of the members should be asked beforehand, only then they should decide the channel to communicate among the team members. The one which is free and easy for all of them depending on their respective locations should be opted as the common one. In addition to that, the other shortcoming is the lack of communication between the virtual team members. You need to develop trust among the members by giving them full credits, paying salaries on time, giving proper incentives and something like these. Apart from that you need to be very conscious about work and fun combination. Keep posting daily fun news on the bulletin. Send online gifts to deserving candidates;send e-greetings on festivals and birthdays, celebrate success of the whole team. In this way Human Resources Department can manage a virtual team properly. All these should be included in an HR Manager Job Description. http://www.europe-hr-solutions.com/
