Managing Virtual Teams

Overview When was the last time you had your entire project team in one place, where you could see their faces, reactions, and have full interaction? Whether you’ve got teammates down the hall, in the next building, or spread all around the globe, research shows that running virtual project teams requires different skills than “traditional” in-person projects. With projects increasingly conducted by virtual teams, savvy project managers must understand how to succeed when face-to-face meetings are becoming few and far between. In this course, we will discuss how to get results from your virtual project teams. We’ll cover how to facilitate trust and open communication, including interpreting and acting upon verbal and non-verbal cues when you can’t see them. Finally, while we can’t help set up your technologies, we can provide some guidance on what to do when technology fails.

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Learning Objectives
By combining decades of in-the-field experience with the latest virtual teaming research, Roeder Consulting will help sharpen your virtual team management skills, enabling you to:

• Facilitate more productive virtual team meetings
• Understand new challenges and opportunities of virtual teams
• Understand the difference between managing virtual teams and managing teams virtually
• Apply scientific knowledge on the human side of change to virtual teams
  
  

Benefits
By using the take-away skills from this course, you will be able to immediately:

• Lead your virtual team for better project outcomes
• Build and facilitate trust and open communications with your virtual teams
• Effectively deliver information electronically and be able to cope when/if technology fails
• Positively impact your project success and personal growth
  
  

Course Overview - 8 PDUs (Download Course Datasheet)
Our experienced instructors will lead you through our 3 spoke model, giving you skills to lead any type of virtual project team.

• Manage the Culture: Learn the FOCUS model for open communications in a virtual team.
• Manage the Technology: Learn how to select and deliver information electronically and what to do when technology fails.
• Manage the People: Learn how to set yourself up for success and keep your team focused on desired outcomes.