Remote Team Leadership

Overview

Course duration: 1 day.

Identify your current remote management practices and learn how to apply tried and tested techniques in the context of remote management. With an increase in dispersed, virtual and remote team’s managers face new challenges in working with their teams from a distance. This course is focused on building and sustaining high performance in a remote team setting.

Is it right for me?

People who currently lead remote teams and who are focused on raising their own performance as team leaders as well as improving the results of their team.

What will I learn?

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Define effective Leadership behaviours of remote teams.
• Identify what Remote Team Members need and expect from team leaders.
• Use a combination of communication channels and methods to support effective team working.
• Create and maintain motivation and team spirit within remote working environments.
• Use a number of techniques to manage and maximize the performance of remote team members.

What will it cover?

Defining Effective Characteristics of Remote Teams

• Defining the type of team you manage
• Identifying the challenges and opportunities of remote working
• Differentiating between static and remote teams
• Identifying the behaviors, skills and qualities of highly effective remote team leaders

Building a High Performance Remote Team

• Defining remote team members expectations of their team leader
• Creating the right environment
• Engendering team spirit and trust
• Understanding the emotional, psychological and physical requirements of remote workers
• Maximising the strengths a remote team offer

Communication Tools and Techniques

• Identifying and overcoming the barriers to effective remote communication
• Planning when and how often to communicate
• Selecting the right communication method
• Developing and implementing communication systems and processes using technology such as online forums and online virtual meetings

Managing Team Performance and Motivation

• Creating a virtual environment to motivate the remote team
• Supporting and developing the team from a distance
• Providing effective feedback to the team and individuals
• Coaching from a distance
• Measuring team performance on an ongoing basis

Continuing Your Development

• Develop a personal action plan to support your return to the workplace

Trainer Profile

Phil McKew

I personally find that delegates build their philosophy and action plan around the 5 Ts of remote management, which form the basis of this event ie:

Trust – challenging the idea that ‘the mice will play while the cat’s away’ but instead managing remotely by principles, ground rules, results and outputs.

Targets – ensuring the team truly understands what ‘success’ means.

Tracking – agreeing those key things that do need to be measured and monitored.

Team Spirit – sharing many ideas on building team identity, loyalty and motivation of team members even if working at a distance nationally or internationally.

Technology – tips on use of tools such as e-mail, audio and video conferencing.

The Faculty

Along withShona McFarlane and Murray Furlong, Phil McKew ispart of the dedicated faculty team who will deliver this course. The initials next to each date below indicate which trainer is scheduled to deliver which event.

Recent delegates have said:

“Phil was a great trainer and really helped explain to whole team.”