Write a 10–12 page report, supported by research, for executive leaders that analyzes the predictable stages of virtual team development and offers recommendations for successfully moving through these stages.
Virtual teams have become more common in the workplace as businesses seek to find ways for employees who are not located in the same geographic area to work together efficiently and economically. Some of these newly formed virtual teams achieve great success in their collaboration efforts, while others never seem to get started.
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By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
Competency 1: Evaluate organizational practices.
Analyze organizational best practices for virtual team development in order to consider the consequences of the practices on the outcome of the collaboration.
Competency 2: Apply the principles and practices of effective virtual team collaboration.
Describe the predictable stages of virtual team development in sufficient detail to illustrate specific aspects of the stages.
Recommend strategies for successfully moving the team through each stage of virtual team development based on research of group processes.
Competency 3: Assess types of information and communication technologies.
Analyze technologies to support strategies for moving through each stage of virtual team development in order to consider the consequences of the technologies to the outcome of the team.
