Procedures for Appropriate Improvement of an Effective Virtual Team

To construct your plan, review your assessment from the Case for this module. Then provide the following:

Choose one improvement for each team process and clearly define the steps your team would have to take to achieve this improvement.

Present the steps in a logical order and propose a date by which these steps could be completed if your team were to stay together. Setting a realistic completion date is an essential part of any action plan.

The format for this SLP is as follows: Title page, Introduction, Body of Work to include either a list, a chart, or a timeline (don’t forget to support your work with at least two scholarly sources), a conclusion and reference list page. Be creative and have fun with it!
Include a cover page and reference page in addition to the 2-3 pages of analysis described above.
Your paper should include introduction and conclusion paragraphs.
Use headings to indicate major sections of the report.
Cite and reference any outside sources, using at least two high-quality peer-reviewed academic sources found in the Trident Online library.
Use APA formatting (7th ed.).
Proofread and edit your papers carefully. The expectation is zero errors.

Often, team assessment and evaluation take place through informal discussions among team members. This may take place spontaneously in co-located teams, but it is especially important to formalize these procedures in virtual teams. Even co-located teams can benefit from a planned and conscious evaluation of their work product and process.

Start off by reading Chapters 19-24 in Part 6: Tool and Assessments for Collaboration in:

Nemiro, J., Beyerlein, M., Bradley, L., & Beyerlein, S. (Eds.). (2008). Chapters 19-24, Part 6. In The handbook of high performance virtual teams: A toolkit for collaborating across boundaries. [Books24x7 version]. Available in the Trident Online Library.

Once the assessment is done and areas of improvement have been identified, the team needs to put this learning into practice for continuous improvement of team functioning in the Module 4 SLP Assignment. One way to do this is to develop an action plan to help concretize improvement goals and determine what steps need to be taken to achieve them. An effective action plan will include a timetable and realistic, clearly defined steps that the team can take to enhance performance. This plan should be reviewed periodically to assess progress and results, making adjustments to the action plan as needed.

The simplest form of an action plan is a table created in Microsoft Word or Excel, depending upon the complexity of the needed design. There are typically five columns in a basic action plan with rows added as needed:

Objectives: What does the team want to achieve?
Tasks: What do the team members need to do to achieve the team’s objectives?
Success criteria: How will you know you have achieved success?
Time frame: When does the task need to be completed?
Resources: What resources do you need to complete each task?