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Virtual Teams: Communication Strategies, Challenges and Ways to Overcome them

Communication Strategies for Virtual Teams Leadership                 It can be difficult trying to ensure all the pieces fit together when assembling a virtual team. That is something virtual team lead ers often must do. Finding or being a good leader for your team is the first step toward building a successful team. While leadership with experience in face-to-face business might have excelled, they should be willing and able to adapt to the differences between them. "An effective virtual team leader must be skilled in moving people toward negotiation, consensus, and ultimate solutions" ( DuFrene -Lehman, 2016). Finding a good team leader will help ensure a smooth flow of operations. Ginsburg mentions a leader “who would elicit not only levels of individual performance that exceeded anything achieved earlier, but also motivated workers to perform, primarily for the greater good, relegating self-interest to lesser importance” (2017).  A virtual team without support from eit