miércoles, 18 de mayo de 2011

Communication & Virtual Teams

Summary

Communication is a basic instinct of al humans, and it’s a mean to express what we theink or need to another person. But communication not only consist on the sound and the voice, there’s another kind of communication called, non-verbal communication that consist in four basic types; the proxemics, that are the individual’s perception and use of the space; kinesics, the posture and body movements of the person; facial and eye behavior gives cues to the receiver, and finally the variations in the speech such as the pitch, loudness, tempo, among others.
Due to the new trends in technology, a new kind of work group has been created, the virtual team, which consist in a group of people working in a common task but not necessarily located in the same space or time as the others, this makes easier the cooperation of new and different kinds of knowledge, but this can became also a setback because the concluding of the process or task may take a very long time.  


Retrieved on April 2011


Topic Question

How to make transition from a more traditional team to the more distributed team structure?

-In every transition process one of the primarily components is the way of thinking of the individuals of the team in which the leader must provide enough information and points in order to make their individuals embrace the team structure and for it to perform well.







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