Managing Virtual Teams

Description: In today's dynamic organizational environment, virtual teams play a critical, if not dominant, role in an organization's success. Likewise, how virtual teams are managed often determines their success or failure. The Managing Virtual Teams workshop focuses on developing the necessary knowledge and skills effective managers employ when leading virtual teams. The workshop is designed to:

• Help participants understand the unique nature of virtual teams
  

• Clarify expectations for virtual team managers and members
  

• Identify the necessary conditions for successful virtual teams and how to overcome typical barriers
  

• Practice essential communication skills including setting goals and measures, relationship building, and reducing isolation within virtual teams
  

• Aid participants in developing trust within the virtual team
  

• Identify the available resources and develop the skills to effectively employ technologies which promote virtual team communication