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Go to the virtual teams website! Bionic e-Teamwork  
  How to Build Collaborative Virtual Teams at Hyper Speed
Jaclyn Kostner
 
 
  Synopsis
Kostner explains how team members in a business can work together over telecommunications systems and so speed up their work. She discusses such topics as preparing people, when to travel, and building a sense of team from afar.
 
  From the Publisher
The age of co-located teams is dead. Instead of working with the people down the hall, we now work with people whose locations span the globe. To achieve real success, companies can't just plug into the new technology.
They must learn how to collaborate effectively when people are not in one place. They must create fast, cohesive, Bionic eTeamwork from afar-the next wave of virtual teamwork. Armed with new technology and new methods, eTeams allow companies to break the speed of light.
One of the world's leading experts on virtual teamwork, Jaclyn Kostner, takes readers step-by-step through the process of creating fast, effective, Bionic eTeams that use technology's power to extend their human capability and touch. Kostner notes: "Being on the same e-mail system doesn't make a team. People make a team. Communication makes a team. Trust makes a team." In BIONIC eTeamwork, Kostner includes best practices from SAS Airlines, Dow Chemical, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and more.
BIONIC eTeamwork teaches: the three-step evolution to bionic eteamwork; four key ways to transition your team quickly to bionic eteamwork; best practices for creating trust in teams that communicate virtually; moments of truth to enhance a leader's power to
 
     
 
Table of Contents
 
  Acknowledgments  
  Introduction  
  Vocabulary  
  Prologue  
1 We Have the Technology ... 1
2 eTeam Evolution: Disabled, Mechanical, Bionic 11
3 Prepare People for HyperSpeed 39
4 Getting InTouch: When to Travel 53
5 Building InTouch, Virtually 73
6 The Heart of Bionic eTeamwork: Human Moments of Truth, Not Vision 89
7 eMotion: Building Sense of Team, from Afar 107
8 Building Team eMotion through Media 125
9 The Bionics of Engaging eMeetings 141
10 The Bionics of Effective 24/7 eCollaboration 157
11 Bionic eTeamwork: A Choice and a Commitment 177
  Epilogue 185
  Index 189
  About the Author 195
  For More Resources 197


 

 
 
     

   

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