ABSTRACT
The virtual leader facilitates the fast formation of aligned high-performance teams through facilitating cohesion. An analytical person will excel at finding the operational strengths and weaknesses of various options with an eye toward quality control. Diverse teams can harness collective intelligence because multiple perspectives are considered. Team members come with different values, personalities and social styles, experiences, backgrounds, and cultures. Personality profiles and temperament assessments are a popular way to ensure team diversity that is less obvious than race or culture. Virtual team leaders function more like orchestra conductors than overseers of a chicken coop. Teams require more collaboration than henhouses, so members also need to have good relationship-building skills. The old management model underpinned managerial behaviors by determining that for most people, the need for power and achievement drove motivation in the workplace.
