Distance Management - Virtual and Remote Teams

Duration: A one day course

Suitable for: This course is suitable for any managers, team leaders and project managers who manage virtual or remote teams, or off-site employees and projects. It will enable and encourage you to be more pro-active and give you tools and frameworks which will help you to distance manage your team members more effectively.

Objectives: • Gain a deeper understanding of the issues and skills to improve effectiveness in distance managing • Have increased their confidence and motivation to develop effective approaches to distance management • Appreciate the importance of developing relationships and trust with direct reports/colleagues being managed remotely • Understand how you can improve the performance of your virtual team • Gain a better understanding of the effective use of technology • Have used tools which contribute to improved relations with direct reports/colleagues being managed remotely

Locations: Guildford, Surrey & London

Course Description

Introduction & Workshop Objectives

• What are we going to cover?
• What are my priorities for the day?

Setting the scene

• Defining distance management - When a virtual team really is virtual
• Context
• The opportunity

Successful management of remote staff members

• Building and maintaining relationships
• Difference between face-to-face and distance relationships
• Using tools to help you
• Managing expectations - practice how to do it

Leading virtual teams

• Characteristics of success - Teams, Leaders, Organisations
• Learning from others

Use of technology

• How can it help productivity
• Agree when to use what

Applying the learning

• How to get off to a good start
• Put it all into practice

Conclusion

• Recap of what has been learned