Get the virtual leadership skills you need to inspire and motivate your remote or international team


Highlights:
• Define what it takes to lead a virtual team and identify your own personal virtual challenges
• Learn how to apply techniques for frequent, authentic, and transparent leadership communications

Key Competences:
• Virtual leadership
• Online communication
• Creating trust & engagement
• Managing multicultural teams
• Managing conflict online
• Performance management
 

Leading virtual teams is a hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.

7 Programme Modules

1 - Leading Virtual Teams—What's Different?
• Define Types of Virtual Teams
• Define the Unique Needs of Virtual Workers
• Define What It Takes to Lead a Virtual Team
• Identify Virtual Leadership Challenges
• Identify Team Needs Based on the Virtual Leadership Challenges

2 - Building and Maintaining Trust in Virtual Teams
• Define the Components of Trust
• Identify the Leader's Role in Creating and Sustaining Trust
• Assess Trust Needs for Different Types of Virtual and Remote Teams
• Understand the Need for “Swift Trust”

3 - Leading and Facilitating Virtual Communication
• Demonstrate Techniques for Frequent, Authentic and Transparent Communications
• Demonstrate Principles for Choosing Technology for Support Virtual Work
• Define Fundamental Differences in Communicating
• Identify Best Practices for Managing Conflict in Virtual Teams

4 - Managing the Performance of Virtual Teams
• Identify Virtual Performance Management Challenges
• Describe Best Practices for Performance Management in Virtual Teams
• Match Performance Management Needs of Team Members to Tools and Techniques for Managing Performance Virtually

5 - Coaching in a Virtual Environment
• Explain All the Components of the GROW Model of Coaching
• Use Key Skills for Listening and Questioning
• Effectively Use Tools and Techniques to Coach Virtually

6 - How to Facilitate Meetings and Influence Others
• Identify Pre-Meeting Tips and Best Practices
• Identify Meeting and Post-Meeting Tips and Best Practices
• Demonstrate Effective Meeting Facilitation Skills
• Describe Nine Influence Strategies and How to Apply Them in a Virtual Environment

7 - Putting It All Together—Case Studies, Problem Solving and Best Practices
• Identify Major Opportunities for Increasing the Effectiveness of Your Team
• Gain Insight into a Challenge You Are Having and What to Do About It
• Develop a Plan or Tool to Address Your Challenges

You are a manager with team members in other countries or simply operating from home offices. You need to learn how to maximize synergies and productivity of your international or remote team.

Typical Participants:
• Senior Managers
• Managers