The Boss is back from his spring break festivities in Seattle, not quite ready for school but ready to blog. This week I read "How to Pick your Million Dollar Crew" along with "6 Ways to Build Trust with your Virtual Team". I believe that virtual meetings between teams can add value to face to face interactions but virtual teams by themselves face many obstacles for success.
Being a senior in Kogod, I have been apart of many teams, however, none of them have been purely virtually based. In order to be most effective, I think that teams must have some kind of face to face interaction before they are able to create the trust necessary in order to be successful virtually. There is a lack of trust in virtual groups that makes it far more difficult to be efficient and successful.
I have been apart of groups where you choose your group and ones where your professor chooses them for you. I think it would be much easier to work virtually with a group that you choose verses one that is chosen for you.
The best groups I have been apart of are ones that set up times to meet up and then divide work up to be completely separately with communication continuing through gmail/gchat/google docs.
To conclude, I think that virtual teamwork is a very important aspect of successful groups but that it needs to be complemented with some kind of face to face interaction.
bosssssssssss OUT.
