Purchase Solution

Virtual Meetings

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

As the leader of a virtual team, how would you conduct a team orientation meeting if not face-to-face? Describe the challenges of not conducting the meeting face-to-face. Explain how you would overcome the challenges.

Please focus with this information in mind
Challenges of conducting an orientation meeting:
Time zone differences
Bandwidth limitations
Choice of technology to facilitate the meeting

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

This solution includes information on the challenges of conducting virtual meetings, and how to deal with those challenges, and the differences between virtual and face to face meetings. It offers practical information for those who need to conduct virtual meetings.

Solution Preview

First, some challenges of conducting any virtual meeting include the following:

• Since the people are in different geographical locations, we cannot control their physical environment. There may be noise or other distractions, phones ringing, etc. in their environment. One way to mitigate this issue is to be clear about ground rules of the meeting: that everyone needs to assure that their environment is conducive to a professional meeting.

• Each person may be in different time zones, which has varying issues associated with it: First, in setting up the meeting, it is crucial to find the optimal time considering everyone's needs. (In subsequent meetings with the same people, you can choose, for example, more optimal times for your weakest contributors, so that they have the ...

Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Production and cost theory

Understanding production and cost phenomena will permit firms to make wise decisions concerning output volume.

Writing Business Plans

This quiz will test your understanding of how to write good business plans, the usual components of a good plan, purposes, terms, and writing style tips.

Understanding the Accounting Equation

These 10 questions help a new student of accounting to understand the basic premise of accounting and how it is applied to the business world.

Introduction to Finance

This quiz test introductory finance topics.

Motivation

This tests some key elements of major motivation theories.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Virtual meetings with live events. Don't dwell too much on costs.

    Live meetings will many times have benefits for a virtual team. Talk of strengthening of bonds when team members are actually able to meet each other; face to face meetings create more special experiences for its participants than do virtual teams.

  • Importance of Solid Ground Rules for Team Meetings

    Contrary to this, technology has allowed for virtual meetings. It's said that virtual meetings will often require special conditions.

  • Global Teams: Overcoming Communications Barriers

    While meeting face-to-face requires time and expense, virtual teams that invest in one or two such meetings per year perform better overall than those that do not.

  • Virtual vs. Face-to-Face Teams

    However, virtual teams have their own disadvantages. If we compare face-to-face versus virtual teams, the level of satisfaction obtained via face to face meetings among team members is much higher as compared to virtual teams.

  • Managing Virtual Teams Discussion

    In order to maintain effective processes in business, virtual team members need to have regularly scheduled meetings.

  • Virtual Teams and Non-Verbal Clues

    Team members can easily hide their emotions and attitude in virtual meetings and thus, one can be misled or misguided regarding team member's intentions in virtual meetings.

  • Creating the Virtual Team

    Team leaders may occasionally offer support and coaching to team members How virtual meetings may be run Virtual meetings may reduce travel time and costs, but deprive team members of non-verbal signs that help them understand each other and may

  • Virtual Teams: Problems and Solutions

    There should be regular semi-annual meetings. Such meetings will help develop guiding principles and help avoid problems. Fourth, clarify task and processes. This will improve coordination (3).

  • Virtual Team Leading Practices

    The expert determines how to manage virtual work-life cycles and meetings.

View More Related Solutions