Leading Effective Virtual Teams: Overcoming Time and Distance to Achieve Exceptional Results (Paperback)

A proliferation of new technologies has lulled many into thinking that we actually have to think less about how we communicate. In fact, communicating and collaborating across time, distance, and cultures has never been more complex or difficult.

Written as a series of bulleted tips drawn from client experiences and best practices, Leading Effective Virtual Teams: Overcoming Time and Distance to Achieve Exceptional Results presents practical tips to help leaders engage and motivate their geographically dispersed project team members. If you’re a leader of any type of virtual team and want to help your team members collaborate more effectively, then buy this book. You will learn how to:

• Build trust and cultivate relationships, virtually, across your team
• Design and facilitate virtual meetings that are focused and engaging
• Influence without authority
• Motivate and galvanize a virtual team for top performance
• Blend asynchronous and synchronous communications for better virtual collaboration
• Navigate cross-cultural and generational differences in the absence of vital visual cues
• Assess skills, strengths, aptitudes, and preferences from afar
• Handle other tough issues that can trip up virtual teams

The ideas in this book are based on Nancy Settle-Murphy’s decades of experience working as a change management consultant, facilitator, and trainer for project teams around the world. Designed to be read section by section in any order, this book shares approaches and techniques to help you address some of the toughest challenges virtual team leaders face, including keeping team members engaged from afar.

新技術的大量出現使許多人誤以為我們在溝通方面需要思考的事情越來越少。事實上，跨越時間、距離和文化的溝通和協作從未如此複雜和困難。

《領導有效的虛擬團隊：克服時間和距離實現卓越成果》這本書以客戶經驗和最佳實踐為基礎，提供了一系列實用的提示，幫助領導者與地理分散的項目團隊成員建立良好的互動並激勵他們。如果你是任何類型的虛擬團隊的領導者，並且想要幫助團隊成員更有效地協作，那麼請購買這本書。你將學到如何：

- 在團隊中建立信任並建立關係
- 設計和促進專注且引人入勝的虛擬會議
- 在沒有權威的情況下影響他人
- 激勵虛擬團隊以實現卓越表現
- 結合非同步和同步溝通以改善虛擬協作
- 在缺乏重要視覺線索的情況下應對跨文化和跨代差異
- 遠程評估技能、優勢、能力和偏好
- 解決可能困擾虛擬團隊的其他棘手問題

這本書的理念基於南希·塞特爾-墨菲數十年在全球項目團隊中擔任變革管理顧問、促進者和培訓師的經驗。這本書可以按照任意順序分節閱讀，分享了應對虛擬團隊領導者面臨的一些最棘手挑戰的方法和技巧，包括如何遠程保持團隊成員的參與度。