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

Part IV. Setting Up a Collaborative Team

High performance in virtual teams does not magically occur. Taking the time at the outset to build excellence into virtual team design and process is a crucial first step. The chapters that address setting up collaborative teams cover a range of topics: starting a virtual team, virtual meetings, generational differences among team members, decision making, and creativity within the team. Chapter Ten focuses on team composition and begins with a look at selecting members. Team membership assignments are driven by the search for expertise across the global face of the organization and often as needs arise, so systematic planning about selection may be difficult. The emphasis on content expertise means that ...