Leading Virtual and Remote Teams Seminar # 2280

Learn how to lead cohesive long-distance teams that can actually outperform face-to-face teams.

As the leader of a virtual or remote team, you need to manage performance and work relationships with employees you may not see very often and who may be hundreds or thousands of miles away. This up-to-date, hard-hitting seminar is designed to help you build truly effective long-distance teams. You will return to work with the tools and methods you need to manage and lead virtual and remote teams with confidence and success.

How You Will Benefit

• Recognize and address the unique challenges of virtual and remote teams in your organization
  
• Identify your organization’s readiness and current capabilities for successfully using virtual and remote teams
  
• Align resources to plan and launch a successful virtual/remote team
  
• Maintain cohesiveness and trust within virtual teams
  
• Apply appropriate online tools and communication techniques in a virtual/remote environment
  
• Provide coaching and build creativity in virtual environments
  
• Plan for launching or improving an actual virtual team in your organization

What You Will Cover

Recognizing the Challenges and Advantages of Virtual and Remote Teams in Your Organization
• Cite current successful applications of virtual teams
• Define the differences between virtual, remote and face-to-face teams
• Use appropriate vocabulary and concepts to discuss advantages and disadvantages of virtual and remote teams
• Identify common problems of and objections to virtual teams

Using the Virtual Team Assessment to Identify Your Organization’s Readiness and Current Capabilities for Successfully Using Virtual and Remote Teams
• Apply information about advantages and potential drawbacks of virtual teams to effectively align stakeholders, time, money, people, and technology
• Identify skills needed to successfully lead virtual and remote teams
• Identify the various organizational “players” that need to contribute and collaborate to launch and maintain virtual teams
• Plan how to engage the organizational “players”
• Identify common policies and practices that may need to be examined to successfully use virtual teams

Planning and Launching a Successful Virtual/Remote Team
• Apply the PPLT (Purpose, People, Links, Time) model to outline a plan for launching a virtual team
• In role-play exercises, apply techniques for launching a team
• Identify and address the underlying sources of typical problems or conflict in simulated virtual team scenarios at various phases of their development and work

Maintaining Cohesiveness and Effectiveness of Virtual Teams
• Use planning and communication strategies in role-play exercises to keep conversations and projects on track and to resolve conflict
• Referring back to the Virtual Team Assessment, discuss typical problems that occur both within and outside of the virtual team that can compromise its effectiveness
• Apply techniques to build trust in a virtual/remote team
• Identify various kinds of virtual “environments” and software tools that can supplement the typical conference calls and e-mails used

Applying Appropriate Coaching Skills in a Virtual/Remote Environment
• Identify the elements of successful coaching
• Explain which elements of successful coaching need to be adjusted to a virtual environment
• Give examples of virtual coaching
• Apply communication and coaching skills to a simulated coaching environment

Building Creativity in Virtual Environments
• Identify typical business situations in which creativity needs to be sparked
• Describe creativity and brainstorming techniques
• Apply creativity and brainstorming techniques to simulated and actual situations
• Describe online tools that can be used in a virtual environment to brainstorm and sift through creative ideas

Planning for Launching or Sustaining an Actual Virtual Team in Your Organization
• Identify major opportunities for a virtual team
• Do a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis to identify barriers and enablers and develop a plan of action
• Identify people and resources necessary to support a successful remote team
• Present a persuasive “pitch” for a virtual team

Who Should Attend

Managers, senior managers, directors and project leaders of global and geographically distributed teams.

Extras from AMA

Attendees will receive a FREE copy of the book Virtual Teams: People Working Across Boundaries with Technology, 2nd Edition, by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps (a $45.00 value).

Additional Information

• Extended Seminar Description
• Faculty Info
• Seminar Hours
• Travel and Accommodations
• Cancellation Policy
• Federal Government Employee Discounts
• On-Site Delivery

Registration Fee

3 days / 1.8 CEUs
Nonmembers $2,445 / AMA Members $2,195 / GSA $1,880

Schedule

We have 7 scheduled sessions located nationwide starting between August 5, 2009 and March 15, 2010.

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