(cartoon via Marketing and strategy innovation blog ) Together with Sibrenne Wagenaar I wrote a Dutch article of 15,000 characters on virtual teamwork. 15,000 is really short for all there is to say! During the literature review one of the best articles we found is the article called Managing Virtual teams by Lisa Kimball. As Lisa Kimball says: " although the technology that supports these new It is actually the text of a speech in 1997. This is the exciting part because why not try and create powerful virtual teams, leveraging a variety of tools to become

Our paper was an extension of the research we have been doing on leadership in virtual worlds that I wrote about previously . This paper focused on how one’s online identity may affect virtual team member perceptions and how virtual teams work together. Specifically, we looked at how one’s online identity affects perceptions of anonymity within the team and how that sense of anonymity affects group cohesion and satisfaction. I just returned from the Academy of Management conference in Chicago where I presented a paper that Surinder and I wrote with Professor Rui Huang .

Jill Nemiro, PhD, book author, former actor, and film and video editor, is an expert in virtual teams. It must be close to ten years since I first heard from Jill as she was working on her PhD in an original field: Creativity in Virtual Teams . When Jill got started, she was among a small number of people doing research on virtual work and, among those, she struck me as unusually collaborative and generous. Her dissertation was so good that it was published - and she's gone on to do several more books. We've stayed in touch ever since and, when she teamed

This one , from Carl Eidson at Wilson Learning, rests on research published in Sloan Management Review this year that reinforces our findings in our 2004 Harvard Business Review article : virtual teams can outperform their face-to-face counterparts...if Keep all team members in close communication. Clarify I don't mean to denigrate these lists -- and this one is pretty good -- but they do tend to be the same, often derived from someone else's research, or, as I've said before, come right off the top of someone's head. if

Thanks, Tom Heck, president and founder of the International Association of Team Facilitators , for inviting me to participate in your virtual team series and for posting this interview , with the vaunted title, " 90% People, 10% Technology - Virtual Team Intelligence ." Tags: 90% people, 10% technology Collaboration Telecommuting Virtual Team quot; I particularly enjoyed this event because Tom posed questions I'm not normally asked -- and because we used a new audio conferencing service that is very cleverly designed, allowing the presenters to do quick polls, see who's listening, and chat in a back-channel all effortlessly.

Readers (or as I now think of you, thanks to Julie Powell , bleaders) know that Jeff Stamps and I have been collecting best practices in Virtual Teams since "we wrote the book." quot; Earlier in this decade, we did structured research on such best practices with Ann Majchrzak and Arvind Malhotra that resulted in our collectively publishing " Can Absence Make a Team Grow Stronger? " As promised , best practices for conference calls. Not surprisingly, I've discovered that I've done quite a few posts on the topic, for instance, here and

Briggs on ‘ Principles for Effective Virtual Teamwork .’ 8217; The authors derived these principles from their decade long experience of working with hundreds of virtual teams. Tags: Teamwork Leadership Collaboration Collaboration technology Challenges after action review blogs collaboration collaboration technology communication email etiquette leading virtually motivation motivation in virtual teams online collaboration team building team compact thank you email trust virtual team virtual work The April 2009 issue of the Communications of the ACM, a highly respected journal, published an article by Jay F.

The article set my thoughts in motion about the Leading Virtually blog and my own thinking regarding training, leadership development, and learning in virtual environments in general. We at Leading Virtually obviously believe that virtual teams can be trained and highly functioning using communication media. Not only can virtual teams be trained online, but training Surinder recently passed an article along to me documenting a case study of an asynchronous online role-play used in a university setting . In her recent post , Betsy discussed the

Effective communication in electronic environments can be vexing to virtual teams. We have mentioned issues around communication in past posts, such as Betsy’s discussion of the importance of a cooperative mindset and cohesion , Surinder’s post on building social relationships , or my post about the possible value of avatars in virtual world communication . As a research team we are interested in the ability of team members to communicate effectively using computer mediated communication We know intuitively that we need proper communication to achieve high quality and efficient outcomes, but we are not always sure how to best achieve effective communication or even what effective communication is for the task at hand.