Description

This hands-on, practical workshop focuses on how to effectively lead and manage a virtual (or remote) team. So much rides on the success of a team – and when you have a virtual team (whether across the world, across the country or in the next state) there are many more challenges on a daily basis that affect team performance than most managers realize. When managers recognize those challenges, and address them early on, they increase the success of their virtual team. In today’s world, nearly every organization needs to work across time zones or from a variety of locations. Poor team performance will ultimately affect the ability of a virtual team to meet objectives and accomplish goals. This workshop is designed to provide managers and leaders with a variety of best practices to enable for success of their virtual teams.

All participants will be provided templates to use back on the job.  Through a variety of problem solving scenarios, case studies, role playing scenarios and discussion topics – all customized to the client’s business – participants learn how to address a variety of challenges in leading virtual teams as well as a number of best practices to apply on their own virtual teams.

This Course is Ideal for

  • Managers and leaders interested in learning how to better manage virtual or remote teams.
  • Managers and leaders who want to better engage their virtual teams to achieve complex organizational goals.

Topics

  • Setting up and managing your virtual team for success
  • Developing the team charter and team norms
  • Ensuring a shared vision
  • Ensuring clarity around roles and responsibilities
  • Addressing key challenges in managing virtual teams
  • Managing team performance
  • Enabling for virtual team members to build strong working relationships
  • Challenges of a variety of cultural identities on the team
  • Facilitating virtual team meetings
  • Enabling for, and supporting, creativity and innovation on the team
  • Effective planning with your team to ensure accountability
  • The stages of team development – why it matters
  • Communication best practices for virtual teams
  • Motivating and engaging virtual teams
  • Learning to work together when you aren’t located together
  • Best practices for managing conflicts and problem solving when you can’t be face-to-face
  • Decision making on virtual teams
  • Motivating and engaging virtual teams
  • Effective goal setting with a virtual team