Overview: Technology has made team collaboration easier and more effective, but assembling the right mix of people and skills for a project remains a challenge for many organizations.
Scenario: You have been tasked with creating a training program to help executive management develop fully functional virtual teams around North America (Mexico, U.S., and Canada) that will either (1) develop new products,
(2) be tasked with regional distribution services, or
(3) be in charge of regional marketing; this is your choice.
The name of the training program is titled “The Dream Team.”
You are going to create a virtual team training session and you will choose the reason for the teams’ development through the training program from the three possibilities provided above. Then address the following checklist items:
Checklist:
• You will describe the overall training program to train 20 teams of 5 for the reason you chose.
• Use the Training Steps (from your reading area on tab #2) to create an agenda that will include the vital content you deem necessary to manage and develop collaborative high performing teams for the purpose you selected from the three possibilities.
• Make sure to address the needed team building process steps.
• How will these teams manage themselves?
• What skills will these high performing team members need to direct themselves?
• What skills will be needed and what practices will need to be implemented by the external leaders of these high performing teams?
