Virtual Team Essentials™
More and more companies rely on virtual teams to conduct very critical and needed work. Among the reasons:
Without preparation and skills for the virtual world, virtual team experiences can be disappointing and, more times than not, fail to achieve the desired results. This is due to a variety of reasons: lack of trust, rapport, shared goals, communications process, difficulty in navigating across cultures, and more.
Imagine how much more effective virtual teams could be if they were prepared and skilled — and the business results they would create.
Successful virtual teams know how to overcome barriers of time, place, and culture to accomplish extraordinary goals. Rather than viewing the ’virtual’ nature as a liability, such teams transform apparent limitations into opportunities and competitive advantage. They can do more with less.
Other Benefits Include:
- Apply best practice techniques through understanding how virtual teams differ
- Build trust in the absence of face-to-face interactions
- Learn appropriate decision-making and conflict resolution techniques
- Discover new ways to strengthen collaboration, commitment, and follow through
- Choose communication technologies that are right for your team
- Understand best practice behaviors of high-octane virtual workers
Join us for this one day cutting-edge, hands-on session that will open your eyes to critical insights, while helping you align new skills and tools to your existing teams and plan your future teams. Overcome your teams’ challenges through practice, feedback, experiential exercises, and post-session conference calls.
Most of us have an understanding of how teams work – enough of an understanding to see that an org chart is at best a historical artifact that doesn’t have much to do with how work gets done. Success in the era of 24/7 means quickly aligning your team around their project tasks and resource reality and doing the right work as soon as possible.