Class Description
Managing Teams in a Virtual Workplace
This Managing Teams in a Virtual Workplace course is designed to provide students with insights into the tactics, techniques, and processes needed to effectively manage a virtual team.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the Managing Teams in a Virtual Workplace course, students will be able to:
- Effectively lead virtual meetings
- Communicate virtually with their team, peers and management
- Maximize team members productivity and motivation
- Maximize virtual task assignment and measurement
- Perform needed talent management activities
Duration:
- Two hours
Class Topics include:
- Managing people virtually is like regular management best practices on steroids
- Virtual Team Composition
- Home Worker Need for Conceptual Connectivity
- Virtual Team Challenges
- For All Virtual Teams
- For Virtual Project Teams
- Task Type Needs
- The Concept
- Processing – Low Interaction Low Difficulty
- Knowledge Work – Low Interaction High Difficulty
- Informational- High Interaction Low Difficulty
- Collaboration- High Interaction High Difficulty
- Personality Types
- Introversion
- Social
- Anxious
- Thinking
- Restrained
- General Advice
- Extroversion
- Intuitors
- Sensors
- Thinkers
- Feelers
- General Advice
- Breakout Session: Maximize Introvert/extrovert Job Performance
- Introversion
- Communication Strategies
- Key Concept: Don’t Just Participate, Observe
- Written, Phone, Video
- Ways to Enhance Your Email Efficiency
- When on the Phone
- Video Tips and Best Practices
- Example Communication Types
- With Your Team
- With Your Management, Stakeholders and Others
- Virtual Task Assignment
- Five Levels of Freedom to Act
- Will/Skill Matrix
- Step 1a: Delegation: Who
- Step 1b: Delegation: How
- Step 1c: Delegation: Measurement Criteria
- Step 1d: Delegation: Communication
- Step 2: Measurement
- Step 3: Performance Reviews
- Project Assignment for Employee Growth
- Enhancing your Organizational Influence in a Virtual World
- Use Video
- Build an Efficient Social Network
- Be an Information Distributor
- Be a Communication Gateway
- Take Virtual Logistical Control
- Virtual Leadership Activities Worksheet
- Your Management Style
- Team Communication
- Team Building
- Business Process
- Team Stakeholders
- Final Thought on Process for Virtual Leaders