Virtual Teamwork

VIRTUAL TEAMWORK:

Building Your Own Professional

Community of Productivity and Meaning

http://business.baylor.edu/Phil_vanauken/Virtual%20Teams/Gates/ArticlesGate.htm

by Phil Van Auken

School of Business

One Bear Place 98006

Baylor University

Waco, TX 76798-8006

phil_vanauken@baylor.edu

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TABLE OF CONTENTS (135 pages in book)

Part 1: BUILDING YOUR VIRTUAL TEAM 6

1. Team-building overview 8

2. The community of meaning 10

3. Virtual teams 13

4. Working on a virtual team 19

5. Teams work! 22

6. Forming your virtual team 27

7. Getting to know your team 29

8. Lead/followers on virtual teams 33

9. Virtual team productivity and performance success 38

10. Team motivation 44

11. Team credibility 50

12. Team strategy 53

13. Community decision-making 56

14. Counterintuitive creating thinking 60

15. Team change 73

16. Team conflict 75

17. Virtual communication and interaction 79

18. Virtual communication terms 81

Part 2: TEAMWORK TOOLKIT 84

Part 3: ANNOTATED INSTANT TEAMWORK WORKSHEETS 98

(in order of team development steps)

F.A.S.T. Wheels 100

FORM: Formal Organization of Relationships and Members 103

MIS: Mission In Service 104

ME: My Expectations 105

CD: Contributions Descriptions 106

MEN: Member Niches 107

WE: WElcome to our team 108

DAC: Decisions-Actions Chain 109

PRO: PROgram resource audit 110

TEN: Team Needs Report 111

MAP: Moving After...