Communication Systems in Business
... but you are also getting their non-verbal message by body language and/or facial expressions. The way a person speaks is another way of assessing how they are taking what you have to say. Also, you can get instant feed back about your ideas. Communicating in virtual teams is much different than face to face communication. Organizations use virtual teams if there are facilities in different cities, or even countries. There is a variety of new technology out there available for virtual teams to use to communicate. There are two different types of technology that virtual teams can use. First there are Synchronous technologies which enable team members to communicate with each other in real time. Examples include videoconferencing and instant messaging among others that are out there as well. Then there are Asynchronous technologies which still allows communication among team members, but it is delayed, where synchronous can be used simultaneously. An example of this are e-mail. Challenges in using virtual teams would...