Building collaborative and effective virtual teams are more important now than ever. With the new organizational models, along with sites across the glove, leaders must maintain successful team performance through engagement, effective communication and managing challenges such as distance, time zones, and diversity. Leading virtual teams course will enable participants to shift and adapt current leadership practices to the virtual environment as well as build confidence and competence to work with others in a trusting, dynamic, engaging, and collaborative manner.

Learning Objectives

In this course you will learn how to:

• redefine current management practices in order to have a greater impact in the virtual environment.
• manage the people side of your virtual team.
• communicate effectively and timely via utilization of technology.
• improve connection with the virtual team and individuals.
• create and nurture an environment of virtual teamwork and cooperation.
• master influential and effective verbal and non-verbal communication techniques while in the virtual environment.
• manage conflict and foster a supportive environment.
• establish clear expectations and action plans based on mutual respect and trust.

Course Benefits

• improve confidence and competence in managing virtual teams.
• gain insight and understanding into effective techniques in engaging teams and individual team members.
• increase engagement, accountability, and commitment in your virtual team.

Course Features
The length of this course is 1 day. Theory and practice along with exercises and activities ensure that learning objectives are met.

Target Audience
Leadership having to lead virtual teams would benefit from this course.

Course Type
Classroom (on-line)

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