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Optimizing Virtual Team Success

Virtual teams can be an intelligent solution for organizations. They allow companies to have a more flexible workforce and access to a larger pool of candidates from around the world, bringing different perspectives. This can make employees happier as they have more flexibility and work-life balance. However, virtual teams also require more self-responsibility. It is also important to focus on task design and processes to simplify work. Good communication is crucial for virtual teams to be successful. Some reasons virtual teams fail include lack of clear goals and direction from leadership or damaged relationships between leaders and team members. With the proper structures like feedback, clear communication, and engaged leadership, virtual teams can be an excellent option.

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Optimizing Virtual Team Success

Virtual teams can be an intelligent solution for organizations. They allow companies to have a more flexible workforce and access to a larger pool of candidates from around the world, bringing different perspectives. This can make employees happier as they have more flexibility and work-life balance. However, virtual teams also require more self-responsibility. It is also important to focus on task design and processes to simplify work. Good communication is crucial for virtual teams to be successful. Some reasons virtual teams fail include lack of clear goals and direction from leadership or damaged relationships between leaders and team members. With the proper structures like feedback, clear communication, and engaged leadership, virtual teams can be an excellent option.

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Maria Camila Martinez Ballesteros

código: 200087771

Business english I

Virtual teams: an intelligent solution


Virtual teams make the work more productive. Nowadays, it is common to see

employees of the companies working from home more than before. As the result of the

developing of the technology that improves our quality of life and make our lives so much

easier than a couple of years ago. In this essay, i am going to be describing why i think that

more organizations should try to work remotely but also i am going to expose the other side.

According to Ferrazzi, K( 2014).Getting Virtual Teams Right. Harvard Business Review, recovered

from: [Link] , they claimed that successful virtual team

players all have a few things in common: good communication skills, high emotional

intelligence, an ability to work independently, and the resilience to recover from the snafus that

inevitably arise. I totally agree because the candidates can be all around the world, the

organization has more options and it is better to have different opinions from different

perspectives. Also, the employees are happier because of the flexibility of the work even

though it requires more responsibility , the people can share more with their families and make

the work done in the same time.


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Besides , Watkings, M ( 2013). Making Virtual Teams work ten basic principles , recovered from

[Link] he affirms that it’s important to

focus more attention on the details of task design and the processes that will

be used to complete them. Simplify the work to the greatest extent possible,

ideally so tasks are assigned to sub-groups of two or three team members.

Sometimes in our daylife we focus more on the goals more than the steps that we

have to take to comply that goal. For virtual teams, it is easier because if you want to have a

successful virtual team, you have to have an excellent communication , it is crucial.

On the other hand, Derosa, D ( 2019). The top 5 reasons why virtual teams fail, recovered from

[Link]

teams-fail-02182159, where the writer declare that Leadership is the most important

factor in the success of virtual teams. Some warning signs of an ineffective team

leader include: The team is not meeting its performance objectives and

deliverables are delayed or of poor quality ,Relationships between the team

members and the leader are damaged, Team members are not clear about the

team’s direction or purpose and Team members are not [Link] is a common

issue when you do not have the correct behavior and the goals clear. In spite of,

this problem can be easily resolve by doing feedbacks and have a good

communication with the others.

To sum up, i think that virtual teams are an excellent option for companies especially

now in the middle of a crisis, it is important to recognize the importance of being


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prepared for every possible situation. Virtual teams not only help the company

save costs like electricity or water, it also increases the productivity , for example,

the members of the company do not have to deal with bosses to make every

decision and this makes the work easier and faster.

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