Course description
Managing a Remote Team
Would you like to adapt your skills to enable your remote team to perform at its very best? Managing a remote team can be fraught with obstacles including those imposed by the barrier of isolation. This course will equip you with the skills to communicate effectively, accelerate the building of trust, and to provide your team with the necessary inspiration to work collaboratively at all times.
You Will Learn How to:
- Inspire your remote team to bring out the best in each individual
- Overcome the unhelpful barriers that remote working can impose
- Develop your virtual team so that they work collaboratively
- Increase your team’s performance through goal-setting and clear communication
- Improve the effective use of technology in your organisation
- Accelerate the building of trust to ensure your team are working towards a common goal
- Keep your team in a positive mindset and eliminate churn
Training Course Content
- What is a Virtual Team? – Understanding the scope and definitions of situations that constitute managing a virtual or remote team.
- Benefits and Challenges – An overview of the benefits and challenges that face a manager of a remote team and outlining the best mindset a virtual manager needs to develop.
- Competencies and Skills – Reviewing the the competencies and skills of a remote manager and acknowledging any areas for development.
- Remote Team Case Study, Part One – The first part of a case study following a manager on his remote team management journey. What challenges and opportunities will he face with his new team?
- Building a Virtual Team – Setting ground rules and assessing what a remote team needs from their manager
- Virtual Team Case Study, Part Two – Setting up the initial meeting with your team. What approach should be used and what should be included?
- Working on Trust – How to accelerate trust with your remote team
- Using Technology Effectively – What tools are available to the remote manager and understanding which is best depending on the situation
- Virtual Team Case Study, Part Three – Resolving challenges that we may face with our virtual team? What can be done, and how could they have been avoided
- Communication Skills –Best practice for communicating with remote teams and how to ensure it is effective at all times
- Feedback Skills – Understanding a framework for preparing and delivering feedback in the most effective manner
- Virtual Team Case Study, Part Four – How to turn around poorly performing virtual employees. What have been done in the first place?
- Managing Performance from a Distance – Understanding the best way to monitor virtual work, setting goals and providing effective reviews without micro-managing or losing control of your remote team.
- Session Recap – An activity to embed the core elements of the training course which can then be fed into your own personal action plan.
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