Leading Virtual Teams
Empowered, collaborative teams are the answer to making things happen and achieving outstanding results. The Leading Virtual Teams programme focuses on developing the necessary skills to build a high performing team – a team capable of bringing new ideas into the business, and having the courage to take calculated risks to pursue growth.
Benefits
- Understand the unique challenges faced by teams operating virtually
- Develop the menu of leadership styles required to lead across distance and difference
- Make best use of available technology to ensure effective communication
- Establish an inclusive and collaborative working style
- Build and promote trust in virtual working relationships and cooperation across geographies, time zones and cultures
- Effectively resolve conflict in virtual teams
- Create and maintain motivation and virtual team spirit
- Remotely coordinate delivery of team goals through collaboration and clear accountability
Audience
Managers and individual contributors who currently lead, or will lead, virtual teams.
Some key topics
- Leadership Roles and Virtual Team Performance
- Six Team Performance Zones
- Pro-actively Managing Potential Team Challenges
- Leadership and the Remote Team Life Cycle
- Technology, Leadership, and Team Performance
- Communication Planning
- Developing a Virtual Team Strategy
Methods
The Leading Virtual Teams programme is available in a 1 day classroom format or a 4 hour virtual classroom programme.
Global Team Navigator e-learning
As part of the programme participants will use the Global Team Navigator team performance e-tool. Participants will complete the Navigator Individual Assessment, the results of which will indicate where the individual is strong or needs to develop in relation to supporting the six performance zones of global virtual team success.
For further information or to book a session please contact us at enquiries@tmaworld.com.
Key concepts for this programme are taken from TMA World's new book on global and virtual collaboration 'Where in the World is My Team?', by Terence Brake. Visit www.whereintheworldismyteam.com to find out more, and visit Terence’s entertaining and frequently updated blog on the same subject at http://virtualteamwork.blogspot.com.