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    Leading Virtual Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
    Leading Virtual Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
    Leading Virtual Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
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    Leading Virtual Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)

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    Leading any team involves managing people, technical oversight, and project administration, but leaders of virtual teams perform these functions from afar. Leading Virtual Teams walks you through the basics of:

    • Connecting your people to each other--and to the team’s mission
    • Surmounting language, distance, and technology barriers
    • Identifying and using the right communication channels

    Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly read and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives--from the most trusted source in business. Also available as an ebook.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarvard Business Review Press
    Release dateJul 12, 2016
    ISBN9781633691469
    Leading Virtual Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
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    Leading Virtual Teams (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series) - Harvard Business Review

    Leading Virtual Teams

    Get up to speed fast on essential business skills. Whether you’re looking for a crash course or a brief refresher, you’ll find just what you need in HBR’s 20-Minute Manager series—foundational reading for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives. Each book is a concise, practical primer, so you’ll have time to brush up on a variety of key management topics.

    Advice you can quickly read and apply, from the most trusted source in business.

    Titles include:

    Creating Business Plans

    Delegating Work

    Difficult Conversations

    Finance Basics

    Getting Work Done

    Giving Effective Feedback

    Innovative Teams

    Leading Virtual Teams

    Managing Projects

    Managing Time

    Managing Up

    Performance Reviews

    Presentations

    Running Meetings

    Running Virtual Meetings

    Virtual Collaboration

    Leading Virtual Teams

    Hold people accountable

    Build trust

    Encourage collaboration

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    Leading a virtual team presents a special set of challenges whether you have one team member abroad or several people working remotely. How do you ensure accountability when you don’t see your people every day? How do you get them to communicate effectively when time zones, language barriers, and a host of complicated technologies conspire against your team? Distance poses difficulties, but you can overcome these problems and turn them into your advantage. Leading an effective virtual team is possible—and this book will give you quick tips and strategies for managing people productively, no matter where your team is scattered.

    Leading Virtual Teams walks you through these important basics:

    • Ensuring you have the right mix of skills and abilities on your team for remote work

    • Assessing and meeting your team’s technological needs

    • Clarifying the goals, processes, and norms you’ll use to communicate and collaborate with your team from afar

    • Regulating the myriad messages and media that enable your team members to work together apart

    • Keeping your people motivated, engaged, and accountable despite the distance

    • Surfacing and resolving conflict when you can’t always see how people are working together

    Contents

    What Is a Virtual Team?

    Why use virtual teams?

    What are the key challenges?

    Get the Right People on the Team

    What’s important on a virtual team?

    Tweak an existing team

    Assemble a new team

    Manage the Technology

    Assess needs and resources

    Seek input

    Set up a team site

    Establish rules for technology use

    What to do when technology fails

    Get to Work

    Launch the team

    Create a shared vision

    Define common expectations

    Align priorities

    Build rapport and trust

    Keep people engaged

    Communicate Effectively

    Pick the right channel

    Work around time zones and linguistic and cultural barriers

    Avoid communication fatigue

    Find the right balance

    Cope with Common Problems

    Evaluate performance from a distance

    Maintain accountability from afar

    Manage conflict on a virtual team

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    Leading Virtual Teams

    What Is a Virtual Team?

    What Is a Virtual Team?

    How do you get your people to

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