Overview
Write recommendations that provide guidance to a hypothetical team about developing a team charter and choosing communications and collaboration technology, based on a provided scenario.
Context
The key enabler of virtualness is technology. The use of technology facilitates and affects communication between the members of a virtual team. Some of the basic modes of communication are voice, video, and computer-based technologies. They can be either synchronous or asynchronous (communication occurring at the same time or at different times), as well as one-to-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many. When the technology is process-focused, it can effectively run an organization, unit, or team. When it is product-focused, it can deliver results such as new products, decisions, reports, or plans.
Questions to Consider
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Assessment Instructions
To prepare for this assessment, complete the following:
Consider the following scenario:
You are a human resource manager for a national organization with offices in all four U.S. time zones. You have been tasked with facilitating the launch of a virtual team that will collaborate on an important and highly confidential project. Team members will come from all major business units of the organization, and will be made up primarily of senior managers and directors. The team is expected to have its orientation meeting in two weeks, and will present the finished project to executive management 90 days after the orientation meeting.
You are expected to provide this team with guidance that will help with the launch. Your deliverables for this task are to provide specific guidance in two areas:
Write an assessment that offers your thorough and detailed recommendations for each of these two topics, while being as concise as possible. Support each of your recommendations with references from your research.
Your assessment should contain two distinct sections: Team Charter Recommendations and Communications and Collaboration Technology Recommendations. Include the following:
There is no exact number of pages required for this assessment. Focus on fully addressing the assessment requirements. Note: If your paper is only two pages in length, you have not fully addressed the assessment; and if it is twenty pages, you have written far too much.