Virtual Team Management - Managing Virtual Team Relationships

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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
In Virtual Team Management: Managing Virtual Team Relationships, you will learn how to be an effective virtual team manager. You will learn the seven functions that virtual team managers must perform and the four factors that can hamper a virtual team manager's success. In addition, you will learn about the importance of boundary management and how virtual team managers can be effective boundary managers through the use of management techniques. Finally, you will learn how virtual team managers can incorporate collaborative efforts into their virtual teams and what technology can assist these efforts.

Target Audience
The target audience for this series is managers who are responsible for teams that include virtual members. It is recommended that individuals take the first course in the series or have equivalent knowledge.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Virtual Team Management - Managing Virtual Team Relationships

Identify seven functions of effective virtual team managers

Identify four factors that hamper a virtual team manager's effectiveness

Sequence the three steps for determining roles and responsibilities for virtual team members

Identify the three elements that form the foundation of a virtual team's infrastructure

Identify the difference between boundary management and supervision

Identify the five tasks involved in boundary management

Identify the five expectations virtual team members have of management

Identify the difference between the collaborative process and top-down management

Identify three ways to facilitate collaboration on a virtual team

Match the five forms of technology that assist collaboration with their correct descriptions

Course Number:
en_US_42302_ng