Leadership capabilities – VT stages linkage
Preparations
The first stage of VT lifecycle involves careful planning. The planning process
typically finds leaders asking the why, what, and how questions that enables them to
contemplate, think and judge the appropriateness of their move toward virtuality. The
initial task during the implementation of a team is to define and pinpoint the general
purpose of the team together with the determination of the level of “virtuality” that
might be appropriate to achieve various goals. These decisions are usually determined
by strategic factors such as mergers, increase of the market span, cost reductions,
flexibility and reactivity to the market, etc. (Hertel et al., 2005). Thus, VT leaders, at the
preparations stage, need to put forth their best judgmental skills to effectively balance
the challenges associated with a virtual move while maintaining the overall interests of
their respective organizations and employees