The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams: A Toolkit for Collaborating Across Boundaries

Chapter 23. Using Assessments to Predict Successful Virtual Collaboration Performance

Scott K. Filgo, Scott Hines, Scott Hamilton

Predicting performance has long been the pursuit of motivated team builders, whether for the selection of soldiers, line staff, or high-tech corporate executives. Since the industrial age began, and even more so now, business leaders have sought efficient and reliable methods for predicting successful performance. This has primarily been achieved through skill, attitude, and personality assessments.

Assessments of personality, ability, and achievement have been used for years but became much more popular in the latter years ...