Write a report for your executive leaders:
Recommend organizational best practices for virtual team collaboration.
Identify, analyze, and evaluate several policies and practices that characterize organizations that are successful in supporting virtual teams. Make sure that your recommendations are specific, relevant, and actionable—include implementation plans.
Support your analyses and recommendations with research.
Identify and analyze the predictable stages of virtual team development. Defend your choice of developmental models and explain its relevance to these teams.
Include enough detail and examples that will allow team members to identify the stages their team is experiencing.
How will they know, based on your description and analysis, where they are in the developmental process?
What practical advice do you have for the team to keep from getting stuck, and to avoid or resolve unproductive behavior?
What are best practices for team members in each of the stages you have identified?
Offer recommendations for moving successfully through these stages.
Include at least one actionable strategy for each recommendation.
Analyze the technologies that will best support your strategies. Tie your recommendations to each of the predictable stages. Be specific in your recommendations for appropriate technology as it applies to each of the stages.
