2. Virtual Team Characteristics
Team members joined from diverse backgrounds
to achieve common goals.
Members are geographically separated by time
and/or space, but are mutually accountable for
team results.
The team solves problems and makes decisions
jointly.
Usually, you never meet your virtual teammates
in person, and so e-mail, discussion boards, and
chats become very important.
3. 5 Characteristics of Quality Groups
1. Members exchange ideas constructively
via e-mail, discussion boards, chats, and
blogs
2. Cyber atmosphere is comfortable
3. Objectives are clear and understood
4. Most decisions are reached by consensus
5. Individual group members do not dominate
the discussion board.
5. Full Value Contract
Agreement among group members to work
together as a team
Agreement to respect instructor/facilitator and
classmates
Avoid disruptive conflict
No free riders
Do your fair share of your work
6. Be a Creative Team Player
Albert Einstein said, “Imagination is more
important than knowledge.”
It is with imaginative and creative thinking
that problems are solved and new
discoveries and inventions made.
7. Forming (Team)
1
Storming (Conflict)
2
Norming (Trust)
3
Performing
Tuckman’s model of group
(Interdependent)
cohesion and the stages a group
experiences from the minute it
4
forms until it adjourns.
Adjourning 5
Bruce Tuckman (1965)
(Conclusion)
8. Turn your HA HA moments into AHA moments.
If a person insisted always on being serious and never
allowed himself [herself] a bit of fun and relaxation, he
[she] would go mad or become unstable without
knowing it.
—Herodotus (c. 485–c. 425 B.C.)
