Form Your Virtual Team & Lead Your Virtual Team

The environment surrounding your team matters to your management strategy. Consider how physical location, time difference, & cultural norms will affect how you & your team interact.

Use this worksheet to help identify the environment your team operates in.

As the work place evolves to include remote employees from across the country and globe Dive into this Forbes article on best practices for managers to leverage their virtual teams and create an inclusive environment.

Extra, open & honest communication is needed to keep a virtual team running smoothly. Learn how clearly defined roles & designated responsibilities will keep things on track.

Practice differentiating well-defined roles from poorly-defined roles to help you maintain clarity on your virtual team.

Trust is critical for all teams, but how do you foster trust when people are separated? Discover how to build rapport, either in person or online, to help your virtual team members learn to trust one another.

Credibility, reliability, intimacy & self-orientation make up the four variables of the Trust Equation. Let Charlie Green explain how the Trust Creation Process can improve the trust within your team.

Intimacy is an unusual business term, but according to Sandy Styer of the Trust Matters Blog, it's an important factor of the Trust Equation. Dive deeper with an article to understand more about the importance of intimacy.

Getting everyone on the same page on a virtual team means being thorough & specific with your communication details. Find out how to select the right technological tools & use agreed upon terms to make communication easier.

Consider these 3 case studies on team members' perspectives with their virtual teams to better understand how communication impacts daily life on a virtual team.

Providing feedback on a virtual team can be difficult. Make things easier with this simple assessment from Alan Fine to make feedback easier to give & to receive.

Consider this final piece of advice on how to keep team members engaged through casual communication channels as you work to form your virtual team.

Use the tips & tools in this printable PDF to help you form your virtual team.

What's your role as the leader of a virtual team? It starts with your ability to communicate clearly and effectively.

Leading a good meeting is hard. Leading a good virtual meeting is even harder. Find out what you can do to make your virtual meetings successful from day one.

Discover the “Three Deadly Sins” of virtual leadership, and how you can avoid them during your virtual meetings, by diving into an article by Bernice Ross and Byron Van Arsdale.

Sometimes virtual meetings don't run smoothly, and that can lead to some pretty funny moments. Dive into the humor of the situation, and consider how you might make your meeting better, with a comedy sketch by Tripp and Tyler.

Conflict happens. Learn how to diffuse tension and manage situations appropriately with the three C's of conflict management.

Do you know how you deal with conflict? Uncover your natural conflict management style with this short self-assessment.

Move beyond simply managing your virtual team to coaching them and building relationships that foster results.

Coaching from a distance may seem intimidating, but it doesn't have to be. Polish your skills by practicing how to coach a virtual team member with this interaction.

How well do you understand the cultural differences that may be present on your team? Explore different cultural dimensions, and how they might differ from your own cultural expectations, in this interaction.

Put your knowledge of cultural differences into practice by matching the cultural values and attitudes with the country they represent.