Training and qualification: Recommendations for virtual team development

Abstract

Development of virtual teams is challenging and ambitious because the typical setup hinders the possibilities of personal encounter. In order to increase the team's performance and collaboration capabilities virtual team leaders continuously need to invest in virtual team development. In the presented approach, team leaders are recommended to understand team development as a continuous learning journey considering containing different steps in preparing and defining training loops together with the team. Which team skills have to be developed and what could be effective formats are decisive factors for the training setup. Thus, in addition to their leadership role, team leaders are the head coaches for the virtual team development.