Rules for Teamwork

The Challenges of Teamwork Working on teams can normally prove very challenging, with all of the variations in personalities, strengths, and weaknesses, most of these issues are raised face to face with individuals, and can be resolved by finding a room to sit and talk them out. Working on virtual teams is more challenging, since there are a lot of things missing from the person-to- person contact, such as: •Lack of visual cues to understanding …

…suggestions on making a virtual team work, only one seemed to have strong content that was useful: http://www.courses.psu.edu/comm/comm488_amh13/eclassroom/tipeffective.html Rules for Virtual Teams After some discussion, we came up with the suggested set of guidelines for working within virtual teams. 1. Teams rely on the ability to ask questions and get answers freely. The team should , therefore, foster an environment in which there are no dumb questions.