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Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Oct 2010, Pages: 224
Highly practical and easy to navigate, this book leverages robust research studies to provide a immediately usable resource for virtual team members and leaders. The research study is one of the most applied comprehensive studies ever conducted on virtual teams and all of the recommendations are based on these findings.
To help organizations and leaders enhance virtual team performance, the book shows:
- Top Performance Barriers identify key challenges that teams and team leaders face and will outline these.
- Team Differentiators while many books provide recommendations on virtual teams, the research examines the key factors that differentiate top performing virtual teams.
- Profile of High Performing Teams- addresses the characteristics of the most effective virtual teams and discuss what makes them unique.
- PEAK Model of Team Effectiveness introduces a research-based, yet practical model of virtual team effectiveness.
- Profile of Most Effective Virtual Team Leaders identifies the practices of the most successful virtual team leaders.
- Performance Boosters identifies the behaviors to help enhance the performance of low and average performing virtual teams.
The book also includes sections on future challenges and issues facing virtual teams and leaders, a quick reference guide for diagnosing virtual team problems, background on the research studies, and a number of tools and worksheets.
About the Authors
Darleen DeRosa, Ph.D., is a managing partner at OnPoint Consulting. She brings ten years of management consulting experience, with expertise in the areas of talent/succession management, executive assessment, virtual teams, and organizational assessment. Darleen has authored numerous articles on virtual teams.
Richard Lepsinger is president of OnPoint Consulting and has a twenty-year track record of success as a human resource consultant and executive. He is the coauthor of four books on leadership including Closing the Execution Gap: How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results, Flexible Leadership: Creating Value by Balancing Multiple Challenges and Choices, The Art and Science of 360? Feedback, and The Art and Science of Competency Models, all from Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.
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