Leading Well: Managing and Leading in a Virtual Environment

  • Overview
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Overview

Leading Well: Managing and Leading in a Virtual Environment

Course Description

Virtual teams often evolve and can be commonplace for many organizations. Most virtual teams are proactively created to achieve strategic goals; however, they can also be reactively created in response to a crisis, emergency, or sudden change to a physical workspace. Whether proactively or reactively created, there are benefits and challenges of virtual teams and leadership will need to employ different techniques when managing and leading teams in a virtual environment. This training will provide managers and leadership with tools, techniques, and knowledge to successfully manage a team in a virtual environment.

Course Content

LEADING IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

  • Identify and acknowledge the benefits, challenges, and impacts of leading in a virtual environment
  • Identify and discuss specific leadership skills and strategies needed to manage the transition from a face-to-face environment to a virtual environment
  • Identify and acknowledge the differences between different virtual events and the importance of selecting appropriate events

MANAGE IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT-ENGAGEMENT AND MOTIVATION

  • Identify and apply virtual management techniques to increase employee engagement and motivation
  • Identify and apply technologies to enhance and measure employee performance

MANAGING IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT-COMMUNICATION

  • Identify and apply virtual management techniques to increase employee communication and team productivity
  • Identify and apply technologies to enhance communication in a virtual environment
Requirements & Materials

Materials

Provided

  • Participant guide
  • Resources

Who Should Attend

The course is designed to support all levels of management and employees who find themselves moving from a face-to-face environment to a virtual or hybrid work environment.

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What You Will Learn

  • The difference between virtual teams and teams working within a virtual environment
  • The benefits, challenges, and impacts of virtual working environments
  • Virtual management techniques to increase team effectiveness and performance
  • Technologies to enhance and measure virtual team performance
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How You Will Benefit

  • Improve employee recruitment, retention, and trainings.
  • Enhance building, collaboration, and communications between high performing teams.
  • Connect employee incentives, rewards, and management goals in a non-traditional environment.
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The Learners & Leaders series provides opportunities for members of the local business community to learn from experienced professionals. I was excited to serve on the business panel for the Succession Planning breakfast. It allowed business leaders to understand the different models used to plan for the future of their company from local experts.

- Al Kennickell
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TRAIN AT YOUR LOCATION

We enable employers to provide specialized, on-location training on their own timetables. Our world-renowned experts can create unique content that meets your employees' specific needs. We also have the ability to deliver courses via web conferencing or on-demand online videos. For 15 or more students, it is more cost-effective for us to come to you.

  • Save Money
  • Flexible Schedule
  • Group Training
  • Customize Content
  • On-Site Training
  • Earn a Certificate
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