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Leading Virtual and Remote Teams

Delivering Results in the Global Workplace
 
Course: 275   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Build and lead virtual and remote teams to create success in the global workplace
  • Foster key relationships that reinforce collaboration and team identity
  • Design team protocols to optimize your team's effectiveness
  • Facilitate effective and productive teams using appropriate communication technologies
  • Diagnose and handle the risks of managing distance and diversity
  • Adapt your leadership style to meet the unique demands of working globally

Course Benefits

Whether communicating with a colleague in the next office or across the world, virtual and remote working (VRW) is the norm of the 21st century. In this course, you gain the skills to lead teams that deliver results across multisite and multinational environments. You learn to manage the collaboration of virtual teams via e-communications and enhance productivity by balancing technological and human communications.

Who Should Attend

Managers, project managers, directors and anyone who leads virtual or remote teams, or off-site employees and projects.

Course Workshop

Interactive, small-group workshops reinforce the concepts presented in the class. Activities include:
  • Quantifying the effects of separation
  • Creating a team vision and success criteria
  • Evaluating communication technologies
  • Identifying and managing risks in virtual and remote work
  • Mapping and analyzing the team environment
  • Analyzing stakeholder priorities
  • Identifying actions to optimize virtual working effectiveness

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Upcoming Dates

Dec 10 - 12, 2008
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Dec 17 - 19, 2008
 New York
Jan 14 - 16, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Feb 11 - 13, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Mar 4 - 6, 2009
 Los Angeles
Mar 18 - 20, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Mar 25 - 27, 2009
 New York
Mar 25 - 27, 2009
 Toronto
Apr 22 - 24, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Apr 29 - May 1, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Jun 3 - 5, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Jun 17 - 19, 2009
 Los Angeles
Jun 24 - 26, 2009
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Jun 29 - Jul 1, 2009
 New York
Jul 29 - 31, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)

For complete schedule, please visit www.learningtree.com
 
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1-800-THE-TREE (1-800-843-8733)
TRAINING YOU CAN TRUST
 
 

Leading Virtual and Remote Teams

Delivering Results in the Global Workplace
 
Course: 275   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 275 Contents
 

Introduction and Overview

  • Defining virtual and remote working
  • Dealing with the realities of effective global teamwork
  • Identifying the benefits and impacts of separation factors

Creating a Leadership Model for the Virtual World

Overcoming the challenges of working in virtual teams

  • Planning to meet the challenges of a 24-hour world
  • Unique characteristics of virtual and remote leadership

Responding effectively to the challenges of virtual leadership

  • Establishing your personal leadership success criteria
  • Shifting to a new set of leadership priorities

Managing Team Collaboration

Analyzing the impact of distance on collaborative working

  • Comparing working together with working apart
  • Factoring in the effect of trust among team members

Quantifying the hidden costs of separation

  • How time and distance add cost and risk
  • Measuring the cost/benefit of remote working

Building Team and Organizational Relationships

Establishing the foundation for effective collaboration

  • Defining 'team' in a wider and more productive sense
  • Providing what team members need to be successful
  • Selecting team members who can operate remotely
  • Mapping the key relationships to enhance team success

Building networks and relationships with key influencers

  • Navigating organizational and political complexities
  • Analyzing the perspectives and priorities of stakeholders
  • Implementing the most effective factor for VRW success

Technology: Filter or Facilitator?

Leveraging virtual technologies

  • E-mail
  • The Internet
  • 'Presence' technologies
  • Conferencing and collaboration tools
  • Balancing the pros and cons of e-mail

Benefiting from the potential of virtual tools

  • Distinguishing the five key communication content areas
  • Evaluating virtual tools to maximize communication
  • Selecting the optimal virtual infrastructure

Adapting to an Evolving Workplace

Factoring in risk to effective VRW

  • Adopting a risk-based approach to the planning and execution of work
  • Assessing the impact of typical risks in VRW situations
  • Identifying and managing risks at start-up

Investing in virtual team effectiveness

  • Making the case for investing in virtual team start-up
  • Building a schedule of roles and responsibilities
  • Establishing a shared sense of identity and purpose
  • Structuring assignments to minimize communication gaps

Applying best practices to outsourcing work

  • Additional risk factors of outsourcing projects
  • Practical tips for building productive outsourcing and offshoring relationships

Leveraging the Benefits of Distance and Difference

Working with cultural diversity

  • Exploring levels and categories of culture
  • Responding positively to the range and depth of cultures
  • Incorporating cultural differences to benefit the team

When things go wrong at a distance

  • Proactive approaches to conflict pressure points
  • Overcoming the isolation factor

Optimizing Virtual and Remote Teams

Managing the dynamics of virtual teams

  • Developing team ground rules to enhance effectiveness
  • Orienting new remote team members

Taking a proactive approach to daily leadership

  • Refocusing leadership actions using a three-level model
  • Adapting a communication plan to track progress

Implementing Your Post-Course Action Plan

  • Customizing diagnostic tools for remote and virtual work
  • Adopting a leadership strategy based on collaborative team work and structured communication
 
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Leading Virtual and Remote Teams Tuition

Delivering Results in the Global Workplace
 
Course: 275   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,390 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,350 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,155 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,124 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

Tuition Savings Plans

Training Passport
  • 3 courses in 12 months
  • As little as $1,670 per course
  • Savings as much as 40%
  • Only $5,000
Premium Pass
  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,700 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
10-Day Pass
  • A NEW way to save on training
  • 10 days of training for one person
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Only $4,500
Training Vouchers
  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
  • As low as $2,200 per course
Alumni Gold Discount Attend your first course and you'll receive a personalized Alumni Gold Discount card, entitling you to save as much as $305 on each course you take within the following 12 months. Take just one course each year and you'll be entitled to ongoing discounts...year after year!

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