Empowering Virtual Teams

duration: 1 x 4-hour virtual workshop

If the COVID-19 global pandemic has taught us anything, other than the importance of health, family, and social connectedness, it’s that working with and managing or leading a virtual team is very different from managing an on-premises or in situ team.

During this most challenging of times, many of us were literally thrown into a virtual team environment at very short notice being forced to either ‘sink or swim’.

What empowers and motivates a virtual team? How is being a manager of virtual teams different from being a manager with an ‘in-the-office’ team? How and what do you need to do differently to get the most out of individuals and the virtual team, as a whole?

This workshop explores the what, the why and the how of empowering virtual teams.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

identify their own virtual team’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats;
establish a clear virtual team working agreement.
describe the impact of a virtual working environment on their team communication and interpersonal relationships;
identify appropriate technology for maximising ‘face’ time with their team.
explore strategies for preventing and managing the escalation of individual and virtual team conflict;
discuss individual needs and working preferences in a virtual team; and
practice using some helpful online team collaboration tools.

YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT …

The strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of a virtual team.
How to manage expectations: yours and those in your virtual team.
Online collaboration tools to support effective virtual interaction and ideas-sharing.
How a virtual team manager balances individual, team and organisational achievement of goals.
How to foster an empowering, motivating, and high trust, virtual team.
How to enhance your virtual communication using a coaching approach.
Creating an empowering virtual team agreement collaboratively.

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who sHOULD participate?

New and/or existing virtual teams and their team manager/leader.
Team Leaders, Supervisors & Managers wanting to develop their skills in managing and leading a virtual team.
All virtual team members wanting to be better at contributing to virtual team plans and more flexible work practices.
Anyone wanting to reflect on the effectiveness of a virtual team and explore ways to enhance virtual team outcomes.

WHY THIS WORKSHOP?

To develop more empowering virtual teams.
To provide an opportunity for team managers, leaders, and team members to come together and discuss their virtual team effectiveness.
To generate new ideas and thinking for both new and existing virtual teams.