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  • ELECTRONIC FACILITATORS who are working under contract with us

  • GLOBAL LEADERS who have a virtual team in a program with us; and

  • OTHERS who have been given an identification number and password.

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To download a copy of VIRTUAL TEAMBUILDING: 100 Internet Learning Experiences, please enter your ID number & password below, then click on the submit button:

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VIRTUAL TEAMBUILDING
100 Internet Learning Experiences

This book contains 100 activities, exercises, games, events, and simulations for use with chat, email, fax, telephone, videoconference, and interactive whiteboard. The activities are grouped into the following categories:
GLOBAL LEADERSHIP
100 managerial competencies

This book discusses 100 skills and competencies for success as a virtual team leader and manager. The skills are grouped into the following categories:
ELECTRONIC FACILITATION
100 online strategies

This book explains 100 techniques and strategies for true efficacy as an electronic facilitator. The skills are grouped into the following categories:
  • Socialization Icebreakers
  • Communication Exercises
  • Trust Exercises
  • Asynchronous Riddles
  • Synchronous Puzzles
  • Dimenional Dillemmas
  • Problems with Icons
  • Paradoxes with Props
  • Complex Challenges
  • Closure & Action Planning
  • Valuing
  • Thinking
  • Communicating
  • Managing
  • Leading
  • Changing
  • Facilitating
  • Developing Teams
  • Developing Others
  • Developing Self
  • Technologies & Teams
  • Purposeful Programming
  • Basic Facilitation
  • Intermediate Facilitation
  • Advanced Facilitation
  • Motivating & Moderating
  • Meeting Mechanics
  • Digital Feedback
  • Compensating for Communication
  • Building Teamwork

These 100 represent the best activities from the experiential learning field converted to online versions for use specifically with virtual teams.

These 100 cover the critically important skills for leadership and management in a new global environment where virtual teams must transcend barriers of organizations, geographies, time zones, languages, cultures, access, and availabilities.

These 100 form the body of knowledge for electronic facilitation at its most effective: enabling virtual teams to overcome the potentially disabling interactions between humans and technologies.

A two-page spread is devote to each activity and includes pertinent information on necessary:

Each competency contains a useful theory to help the leader understand complex concepts like:

Each strategy discusses concepts and techniques that are invaluable to the electronic facilitator of virtual teams, such as:
  • software
  • props
  • time & channel
  • duration
  • group size
  • type & origin
  • purpose
  • action
  • highlights
  • preparation
  • briefing
  • debriefing
  • variations
  • ethical reasoning
  • resilient living
  • problem solving
  • decision making
  • judgment
  • technoliteracy
  • listening & feedback
  • performance appraisal
  • fostering relationships
  • conflict resolution
  • coping with change
  • asking questions
  • virtual team evolution
  • online communication technologies
  • virtual team evolution
  • diagnosis & design
  • delivery & departure
  • debriefing discussions
  • questioning & funneling
  • metaphoric transfer
  • opening & closing
  • framing & frontloading
  • psychotherapeutic methods
  • managing interactions
  • protocols for meetings
  • fear / trust & collaboration

Diagrams show examples of each event in action.

Diagrams explain thorough models for all theories.

Diagrams enhance comprehension of key practice.

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