The learner will be assisted in acquiring leadership skills unique to virtual teams.

• Recognize the importance of successfully leading virtual teams.
• Identify several fundamentals of leadership theory as they apply to managing virtual teams.
• Choose examples of business people as true leaders, especially as this applies to virtual teams.
• Distinguish between effective and ineffective methods of leadership in virtual teams.

• Recognize the benefits of leading virtual teams through instrumentality.
• Identify various functions of traditional models of leadership.
• Identify various functions of the emerging models of leadership.
• Match several principles of Chaos Theory with their applications to leading virtual teams.
• Distinguish between instrumental and manipulative management of virtual teams.

• Recognize the value of transactional, transformational and situational leadership as applied to virtual teams.
• Identify key characteristics of the Transactional Model of leadership.
• Identify the key characteristics of the Transformational Model of leadership.
• Identify the key characteristics of the Situational Model of leadership.

• Recognize the critical importance of the unique and varied roles required to provide successful leadership for virtual teams.
• Distinguish between the roles of Director and Mentor in leading virtual teams.
• Distinguish between the roles of the Producer and the Facilitator in leading virtual teams.
• Distinguish between the roles of the Coordinator and the Innovator in leading virtual teams.
• Distinguish between the roles of the Monitor and the Team Builder in leading virtual teams.