UNIQUE CHALLENGES
Leaders of virtual teams identified the following challenges as the key barriers to their performance:
- Having infrequent face-to-face contact as a team.
- Lacking resources.
- Building a collaborative atmosphere virtually.
- Lacking time to focus on leading the team.
- Changing team and organizational priorities.
- Having more work than the team can handle.
- Managing poor performers.
- Experiencing situations in which team members can dedicate only a portion of their time to the team.
In light of these challenges, what does it take to succeed as the leader of a virtual team? What makes some leaders of virtual teams more effective than others? In general, the study found that the most effective leaders of virtual teams are able to balance ...
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