Managing Virtual Teams
Course Summary
Managing a virtual team is one of the most difficult tasks in today’s organisations, and many virtual teams fail. A virtual team manager faces additional challenges, such as different time zones, changes within teams, managing at a distance, time constraints, and the use of communication technology, in addition to the usual challenges of managing a diverse group of individuals. It necessitates a unique approach and entails learning new skills, communication methods, and techniques in order to get the most out of teams and boost organisational and individual performance.
This course is designed to help managers and HR professionals gain the intercultural competence and communication skills necessary to manage virtual teams.
Course Description
Karen Blake Coaching Managing Virtual Teams training course will provide a greater understanding of the communication and collaboration methods that allow virtual working to be the normal means of working.
This training course teaches you how to define a virtual team, assess the challenges and opportunities of leading a virtual team, identify the key skills of an effective virtual team leader, and how to implement strategies to address issues that virtual teams face in the areas of motivation, social engagement, communication, and logistics.
Completing this Karen Blake Coaching course will enable you to have:
- A better understanding of your own management style and areas where you should focus more.
- A better grasp of the practical and behavioural issues that come with managing virtual teams.
- The chance to explore your own situation and share best practises with other delegates.
- Improved communication skills to interact positively with virtual team members.
- Practical strategies for making better use of a variety of technologies.
Who is this for?
Anyone in charge of a virtual team, remote teams or HR Professionals
Course Duration
This course can be delivered over 1 day face-to-face or Remote Learning via Microsoft Teams.
Nearly half of UK professionals want to continue remote working.
For further information or to arrange a booking contact our administration team.
Managing Virtual Teams
£145.00
Managing a virtual team is one of the most difficult tasks in today’s organisations, and many virtual teams fail. A virtual team manager faces additional challenges, such as different time zones, changes within teams, managing at a distance, time constraints, and the use of communication technology, in addition to the usual challenges of managing a diverse group of individuals. It necessitates a unique approach and entails learning new skills, communication methods, and techniques in order to get the most out of teams and boost organisational and individual performance.
This course is designed to help managers and HR professionals gain the intercultural competence and communication skills necessary to manage virtual teams.
Description
As the world deals with the coronavirus pandemic, a lot of the world’s workers have to stay home and work from home.
There is a new emphasis on telecommuting, which means that teams need a way to communicate digitally, and leaders must change how they manage their people and meetings when they work at home.
Most people who have worked from home say that while virtual teamwork can be good, it can also be hard. According to our research, some of the problems with managing virtual teams are that some people participate more than others, conflict is hard to deal with, and trust is hard to build.
As soon as you set up a team online you can hire people with the right skills, no matter where they live. You can use the fact that your team is spread out across different time zones to make your customers or clients feel like they can reach you at any time.
Also, it’s easy to bring in people who work part-time, and it’s easy to bring in experts who only work a few hours a month.
On the one hand, this means a lot of freedom. On the other hand, you have to deal with people you may never meet and people from very different cultures, languages, and personalities.
This course can be delivered over 1 day face-to-face at our Centre or onsite depending on location (contact our administration team directly for further information or to arrange a group booking. Group booking has a minimum number of 5 participants) or Remote Learning via Microsoft Teams.
When this course is delivered in-house, the content above can be tailored to your team’s specific needs.
Course Objectives:
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Identify what constitutes a virtual team
- Evaluate the challenges and opportunities of leading a virtual team
- Highlight the key skills of an effective virtual team leader
- Apply strategies to tackle issues that virtual teams have in the areas of motivation, social engagement, communication and logistics
The rise in working from home: trends.
