Overview: Virtual team is the new reality of 21st century workplace. Owing to the increasing competition in the marketplace, decentralization and globalization of work processes and advances in information and communication technologies, companies, to remain competitive, require flexibility and agility in their delivery of products and services.
Virtual teams play a key role to meet these demands.Also, these companies are adopting the virtual team approach to reduce their operating costs, encourage knowledge sharing among their employees to promote organizational learning and expand their business hours to 24/7. Unfortunately, having solid business reasons for implementing a virtual strategy does not mean that strategy is always going to be executed well. The problem is that too many companies treat their virtual teams the same way they treat teams that share the same physical locations.
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Identify the nine critical success factors for virtual teams to get a higher ROI
- Review the four-dimensional model of virtual teams: purpose, people, link, time
- Do a reality check:The five advantages and three disadvantages of virtual teams
- Understand and put into practice the three leadership styles essential for virtual team success
- Discover how to manage the social isolation in virtual team,dealing with out of sight out of mind challenge
- Learn to set up a virtual team answering two critical questions What do we want to accomplish? How do we do it?
- Identify seven critical competencies of virtual team members beyond just good technical and communication skills
Who Will Benefit:
- CEO's
- COO's
- VP of Human Resources
- Chief Learning Officer
- Directors
- Project Managers
- Operation Managers and Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Human Resources Professionals.
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