Remote & Virtual Teams
Remote and virtual team management has become the norm for many organizations. Virtual teams and virtual organizations are how they get things done across distance, cultures and organizational boundaries.
But building and managing virtual teams requires different skills - this program will give you these virtual team management skills. The program can also be run for virtual team members, intact virtual teams and virtual project organizations.
If this is you
- You lead, advise or are part of a remote &/or virtual team.
- You recognize that there are some different skills involved in making virtual teams work
- You want to get things done more effectively and at lower cost.
- You do not have time for your virtual team members to work it out through long trial and error.
- You really want to do something practical to improve your virtual team.
Then you need this program
When you lead or work in a remote team, you have to overcome barriers of distance, cultural differences and lack of time, whilst maintaining communication through technology. In virtual teams, you may also not have line control or full time access to your team members either.
Remote and Virtual Teams is a unique workshop developed by Global Integration, where we share our expertise gained from working with many of the world's most successful international organizations. It blends more than 20 practical tools with tips, techniques and challenging exercises and ideas to help virtual team managers and team members to set up, maintain and develop effective remote and virtual teams.
The three major benefits from attending the workshop are:
- Improved virtual team and virtual project kick-off - faster projects and other deliverables, lower costs and improved job satisfaction
- Reduced traveling - save time and expense
- Improved communication - more effective and shorter meetings and communication through technology.
Read more about the business benefits that companies and individuals get from using our virtual teams training.
Take action today to get these benefits, call us now
Top 5 Remote & Virtual Team Issues
From our survey of thousands of Remote & Virtual Team members around the world the top 5 virtual team management issues are:
- We are so busy with the content of what we do we do not spend enough time on the process of how we are doing it.
- We don't see each other often enough
- The team is the wrong size
- The activities of the virtual team are not visible to the rest of the organization
- Not everyone on the team shares the same purpose
We can diagnose your top issues, show how you benchmark against hundreds of other teams and design a program around your specific needs - take a look at our unique remote and virtual teams questionniare and benchmarking process
Our Remote & Virtual Teams training program provides practical tools, tips and methods for overcoming these problems, and many more.
See more ideas, blogs, articles and podcasts on virtual management and virtual teams in complex companies in the resources section of this website.
What will the program help me do?
Introducing the 3 Dilemmas of Remote and Virtual Management and our team development process.
The workshop will answer the following questions:
- How do remoteness and time pressure change group and leadership behaviors?
- What is the right balance of task and team?
- What is the right balance of control and autonomy in the way we work together?
- What causes divided loyalties, and what can we do about them?
- When do we need to be a team anyway?
- The "Superman Syndrome" - what it is, and how do we avoid it?
- When to communicate and how often is enough?
- How to manage your team when the travel budget is cut?
- When to get face-to-face, and when is it better to avoid it?
- How to stay visible when you are remote? The lessons of refuse collection.
- How can I get things done through others when I'm remote and have no line authority?
- Remote Coaching - what is the point? Isn't it just more work, when I don't have the time?
- The art of traveling less.... without damaging your career.
- How to accelerate the transfer of learning throughout dispersed teams?
Matrix Teams
For virtual teams operating within a matrix organization structure we include additional content on managing the daily dilemmas inherent in a matrix (divided loyalties and balancing control and autonomy), managing multiple team membership etc... Learn more
Benchmark your team against the best
Would you like to know how your remote and virtual team compares with others in the world's best-known companies?
Our unique database containing over 3000 team members from around the world enables you to benchmark against the best. See more about our remote and virtual teams questionniare and benchmarking profile
To discuss your specific needs, call us now
If you are looking for a virtual team trainer or conference speaker on the subject of virtual management or virtual teams please check out our conference speakers section
