Virtually teaching virtual leadership

Thomas Duus Henriksen; Rikke Kristine Nielsen; Kenneth Børgesen

Virtually teaching virtual leadership

Thomas Duus Henriksen, Rikke Kristine Nielsen, Kenneth Børgesen

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Abstract

This paper seeks to investigate the challenges to virtual collaboration and leadership on basis of findings from a virtual course on collaboration and leadership. The course used for this experiment was designed as a practical approach, which allowed participants to experience curriculum phenomena.
This experimental course provided insights into the challenges involved in virtual processes, and those experiences where used for addressing the challenges that virtual leadership is confronted with. Emphasis was placed on the reduction of undesired virtual distance and its consequences through affinity building.
We found that student scepticism appeared when a breakdown resulted in increasing virtual distance, and raises questions on how leaders might translate or upgrade their understandings of leadership to handling such increased distance through affinity building.

Original language	Danish
Title of host publication	(uden titel)
Editors	Jørn Kjølseth Møller
Number of pages	25
Publication date	2017
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	Becoming a Leader a Matter Of Education: Becoming a Leader - Roskilde Universitet, Roskilde, Denmark Duration: 8 Jun 2017 → 9 Jun 2017 http://events.ruc.dk/becomingaleaderconference-ruc2017/the-conference.html

Conference

Conference	Becoming a Leader a Matter Of Education
Location	Roskilde Universitet
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Roskilde
Period	08/06/2017 → 09/06/2017
Internet address	http://events.ruc.dk/becomingaleaderconference-ruc2017/the-conference.html

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