You are Not "IMMUNE" to Virtual Teams...

To continue from my last post...

We are all impacted by virtual team principles and responsibilities. For example, maybe you work in the church world. I suspect that you and your team do not share common office hours and common locations... AND I AM including your volunteer team members in that. Many church leaders these days are lay leaders or bi-vocational, so sitting around in in-person meetings are a thing of the past. Or, maybe you lead in the business world and have peers, teammates, or employees that work different shifts, different locations, or in different functions.

Ultimately, you are probably part of a Virtual Team (a team where you do not have consistent focused common in-person times together to make decisions, take action, and/or plan).

So - what does this mean for you? It means:

1. A change in communication style (more frequent, more electronic, more creative, etc...)
2. A change in mission and expectations
3. An increase in automony and trust
4. A drastic change in leadership focus (become a "boundary" leader, supporting your team to succeed in their roles and protecting them from competing priorities)
5. An even stronger reliance on a robust TEAM-focused environment where healthy confrontation is expected and significant buy-in exists for common shared goals

And so much more... STAY TUNED!