Working in a Virtual Team
Increasingly, employee teams involve collaboration with people working in different business locations or from their homes. Describe an experience of working in a virtual team that you have had in the workplace. If you have not experienced this, describe a virtual team that you have heard about from a colleague or friend. What were the challenges of the virtual working relationship? How did the organization respond to those challenges? What could they have done to make the team function better?
Answer previewA colleague has had a virtual working experience for almost half of her career. Through several interactions, I learned of challenges that exist in virtual working experience. The major problem involves effective communication between the team members—the absence of face-to-face and physical interaction subject’s information to misinterpretation. Teams must maintain strict detail in all shared information and ensure that the receiving party has understood the…(550 words)