Leading effective virtual teams

Leadership & Management Skills Training

About this training

Leading a virtual team requires a specific set of skills. Communication, clarity, building and maintaining trust, focusing on deliverables AND people, cultural awareness, … the list is long. This training program is for managers and experts who are, or will be, leading virtual functional and/or project teams. If you’re looking for tools, tips, and techniques to help you lead a virtual team to success, then this seminar will build on what you have and challenge you to transform intentions into actions.

Knowledge and skills to set up, develop, and end a virtual team.

Your outcomes

  • Build awareness of the skills and behaviors you need to lead an effective team
  • Understand and value the similarities and differences between leading a face-to-face team and a virtual team
  • Identify and practice the core competencies you need to lead a virtual team with confidence
  • Develop practical strategies to communicate effectively in a virtual environment
  • Acquire knowledge and skills to set up, develop, and end a virtual team
  • Transfer your existing performance management skills to a virtual environment
  • Develop your ability to lead and facilitate virtual team meetings
  • Transfer the training to your own unique situation

Training content

  • Identifying what a “virtual team” is, and accepted the challenges the “virtual” adds to your role as a manager
  • Identifying what your virtual team actually wants from you – and what not
  • Performing a virtual team health check on your team
  • Developing practical skills for operating effectively as a people and project manager in a virtual environment
  • Considering how you build trust in a virtual environment – and know how you can also lose it
  • Applying practical approaches to  leading virtual team meetings
  • Committing to managing not supervising, and coordinating not controlling
  • Implementing tips and techniques for steering and leading virtual teams
  • Anticipating and prepared for typical virtual team challenges
  • Expanding your toolbox for kicking-off and winding down virtual teams
  • Building a personal transfer plan to implement inside your organization

Develop your ability to lead and facilitate virtual team meetings.

Implement tips and techniques for steering and leading virtual teams.

“…One of the things we love about working with Target Training is that they invest the time necessary to understand what we are trying to get out of this. It’s not “off the shelf” training – and this makes a real difference to the training and business impact.”

C.L Vice-President of  Learning & Development
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The ultimate book of virtual teams checklists

Does the virtual get in the way of your team?

If you are working in, or expect to be working in a virtual team, this eBook can help you. The same goes for leading a virtual team. You’ll also find the advice contained in the checklists useful if you are involved in HR and HRD.

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