6 www.virtual-teams.eu 1.2. Definition of key concepts 1.2.1. Remote team: A group of people brought together for a unified purpose or project. While they all answer to the same organization and usually the same manager, they may physically be in different offices, cities, or even countries. 1.2.2. Hybrid – remote team: A hybrid team is a flexible work structure where some employees work remotely, and other team members work from a central location or office. They may have the chance to get together, or they may not. 1.2.3. Virtual Team: A virtual team is a group of workers who communicate and work together using information and communication technologies (digital tools). While they can be located in the same physical area, virtual teams are often distributed, working remotely in different parts of the city, state or country — even on the other side of the world! The term can also refer to groups or teams that work together asynchronously or across organizational levels. Team members may report to different managers. 1.2.4. Virtual Team leadership: Virtual team leaders should attain skills that are more complex, as the leader of a virtual team must be able to inspire and lead their team without physically meeting them, without seeing them every day and without being able to model appropriate and desirable behavior in a physically visible way. 1.2.5. Physical Wellbeing: The ability to improve the functioning of one’s body through healthy eating, sleep and good exercise habits (Healthy Nutrition, Sleep management, Exercise). 1.2.6. Emotional wellbeing: The ability to adapt when confronted with adversity (resilience), manage one’s emotions and generate emotions that lead to pleasant feelings (generate positive emotions, humor, spirituality, savoring, optimism, adaptability, self-compassion, mindfulness, mental health). 1.2.7. Social – wellbeing: the ability to communicate, develop meaningful relationships with others and create one’s emotional support network (gratitude, forgiveness, verbal and non-verbal communication, empathy, acts of kindness, Mentoring, Diversity and inclusion, social connectedness at work, teamwork, team building activities, Interpersonal skills). 1.2.8. Digital wellbeing: Describes the impact ICTs (e.g., emails, instant chats) have on people’s mental, emotional and physical health.
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