Description
Description
Teams are an important block of a successful organisation. Whether the focus is on service, quality, performance or similar goals, teams are the basic unit that supports most organisations. This course is developed to build the confidence of the remote manager who is tasked with leading.
Remote and virtual working is now here to stay. This has disrupted many managers from their understood framework of engagement with their teams. In order to assist and provide the necessary tools to engage and strive for improved productivity this course explores and highlights the best ways to drive for motivation and engagement.
Training Objectives
- How to embrace and manage a remote engagement model
- How to develop a strategy for building a team identity and culture
- The best ways to ensure that the team deliver results and people are held to account
- The appropriate ways to develop your people
- show recognition and appreciation
- Show various leadership approaches and learn about the mindset shift that is needed when we don’t have team visibility daily
Course Outline
- Adopting a Virtual Model<br />
- o Defining the attributes of virtual working<br />
- o Understanding the needs of virtual workers<br />
- o Develop trust in a virtual environment<
- Leading a Virtual Team<br />
- o Identify working from home lessons learnt<br />
- o Apply effective virtual teamworking<br />
- o Assess project kick-off best practices<
- Virtual Communications<br />
- o Identify the best approaches to communicating and collaborating virtually<br />
- o Assess the impact of technology o the quality of the communications<br />
- o Make meetings more effective in hybrid / virtual formats<
- Culture and Distance: Managing the Impact<br />
- o Lead team member of different cultural backgrounds more effectively<br />
- o Distinguish between the three layers of cultural awareness<br />
- o Factor in the impact of distance on team performance<
- Being a Virtual Leader<br />
- o Identify key action a virtual leader can take to enable a team to be more successful<br />
- o Establish ground rules to aid team effectiveness and efficiency<
- Personal Reflection<br />
- o Pairs or individuals reflect on what they have learnt during the session and discuss the implications, re. their next steps
