This course describes the critically important role of collaboration required in order to create, manage and lead virtual teams.

• Choose the best ways to blend individual team members with single and multiple virtual teams to achieve success.
• Specify the functions of the closed system as it relates to virtual teams.
• Specify the function of the open system as it relates to virtual teams.
• Specify the function of the chaotic system as it relates to virtual teams.

• Recognize the critical importance of trust and commitment in creating, managing and leading virtual teams.
• Identify challenges to commitment in virtual teams.
• Recognize the importance of the interplay between authority and trust in virtual teams.
• Match examples of interplay between leadership and commitment in virtual teams.
• Select examples of team politics in virtual teams.

• Recognize the importance of virtual team design, structure and assessment.
• Identify the best ways that virtual teams can remain focused.
• Choose the most successful models of virtual team design and structure for optimal functioning.
• Specify best practices for assessing the performance of virtual teams.

• Recognize the critical importance of the multi-layered nature of virtual team design and function.
• Specify the major contributions of the individual member to the virtual team.
• Specify the contribution of the single virtual team to the total project.
• Specify the contributions of multiple virtual teams to the total project.
• Choose the best ways to blend individual team members with single and multiple virtual teams to achieve success.