The Goals:
- How to manage performance virtually.
- How to choose teams virtually.
- How leaders can develop their virtual presence.
- How to analyse personal growth virtually.
- How to work with virtual teams.
- How to use the tools of virtual management.
- How to develop trust virtually.
- How to work with different cultures in the virtual space.
The Process:
This program utilizes experiential learning techniques with case studies, presentations, video segments and team building exercises to strengthen the learning environment.
The Benefits:
- Concrete strategies for overcoming obstacles to virtual management.
- New skills and tools required to lead across boundaries.
- The ability to match technology to communication needs.
- Increased commitment through awareness of potential cross-cultures.
- Positive relationships as a result of setting compatible expectations.
- The distinction between traditional and virtual leadership skills, competencies, and attitudes needed to motivate workers across boundaries.
- Strategies to overcome or lessen the challenges to managing virtually.
- Factors critical to the success of a virtual environment.
- How to match leadership style to the stages of the virtual team.
- How to integrate multi-cultural considerations into thinking and decision making.
- How to build and rebuild trust under adverse conditions.
The Results:
- Create a team environment despite challenges from geography, time zones and culture.
- Build trust with people from a distance.
- Assess team performance from a distance.
- Review the benefits and challenges of working in various distant locations and with other organizations to deliver services and projects.
- Understand the different cultures and how to use these to adjust your leadership style.
- Understand your own leadership style and consider how this understanding might be used to improve relationships you have with others on a local and global basis.
- Understand how effectively you lead currently and your situational leadership style.
- Practice flexing your style of leading and communicating to appeal to varying audiences with differing expectations and preferences.
Day 1: The Virtual Leader
- The Changing Global Industries.
- Global Cultures and how they differ.
- The Impact of Technology on Virtual Management.
- The fundamentals of Virtual VS Direct Leadership.
- The Competencies of Virtual Leadership.
Day 2: The Administration Competencies of Virtual Leadership
- The Two components of Organizing Leadership.
- Using virtual organization tools for calendar, time and media management.
- Creating a well-developed sense of both self-awareness and awareness of others.
- Effective delegating techniques of Virtual Leadership.
- The power of empathy in motivating virtual teams.
Day 3: Communication and Diligence of Virtual Leadership
- Setting Clear Goals and Internal Communication Vertically and Horizontally.
- Developing Virtual listening skills and using multiple forms of media for distance communications.
- Keeping your hands on the wheel of control.
- Continuous learning and knowledge transfer.
- Empowerment VS Delegation.
Day 4: Team Building Virtual Leadership
- Setting the roles and rules for the Team.
- Understanding team dynamics and Team Styles.
- Matching your Leadership Style to the team in multi-cultures.
- Leading multi-generational and multi-geographical dispersed resources.
- The power of culture dynamics in productivity.
Day 5: Trust and Virtual Leadership
- The Speed of Trust in an organization.
- Building and Keeping Trust across boundaries.
- The role ethics and integrity play in building trust.
- Humility as a characteristic of a highly effective virtual leader.
- Case Studies on building trust.
Language: English
Place: London – UK
Venue (TBC): Radisson Edwardian Sussex Hotel (Address: 19-25 Granville Pl, Marylebone, London W1H 6PA).
