Virtual teams use email and social media to communicate. It’s hard to think of any team that isn’t virtual to some extent. When your team are in different buildings, time-zones or cultures, traditional face-to-face management techniques may not work. So how can we improve the effectiveness of virtual teams?
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How many teams are you part of right now? Teams are everywhere in our society. One way of boosting teams is to train people regarding teamwork: how they work with each other while they try to solve their common task.
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Have you ever worked in a virtual team? Collaborating with colleagues at distance is now very common, just look at the success of virtual team working tools such as Google Hangouts, Google Drive and more recently, Slack. Breuer, Hüffmeier and Hertel (2016) conducted a meta-analysis of 52 studies which investigated the role of trust in virtual teams. They pulled together results from 1,850 teams – that’s data from more than 12,000 people!
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How many teams are you part of right now? Probably at least one, maybe quite a few. How much time do you spend thinking about and working to build trust on the team(s)? If the answer is “not much,” new research may convince you that trust is worth more of your attention.
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