Remote Virtual Teams, Virtual Team Training & Building

Remote and virtual team management has become the norm for many organizations. Virtual teams and virtual organizations are the way they operate, cutting across distance, cultures and organizational boundaries.

But building and managing virtual teams requires a different skill set to working with traditional hierarchies within organizations. Global Integration's training program offers participants these virtual team management skills.

The program can be run for virtual team members, teams about to be created/structured, intact virtual teams and virtual project organizations.

Global Integration's Remote and Virtual Team Training and Building is useful for people who:

• lead, advise or are part of a remote working and/or virtual team.
• recognize that there are some different skills involved in making virtual teams work.
• want to work more effectively and at lower cost.
• have little or no time for virtual team members to work out the best ways to manage through time consuming trial and error.
• want to do something practical to improve their virtual team.

When you lead or work in a remote team, you have to overcome barriers of distance, cultural differences and lack of time, whilst maintaining communication through technology.

In virtual teams, you may also not have line control or full time access to your team members.

Global Integration's Remote and Virtual Teams workshop shares expertise gained from working with many of the world's most successful international organizations.

It blends practical tools (more than 20 at the last count) with tips, techniques and challenging exercises and ideas to help virtual team managers and team members to establish, maintain and develop effective remote and virtual teams.

The workshop is tailored to each organization's needs, and aims to deliver an improved virtual team and virtual project kick-off - resulting in faster projects and other deliverables, lower costs and improved job satisfaction; savings in time and expense through reduced need for travel; and improved communication - through, for example, more effective and shorter meetings and communication through technology.

Benchmarking Remote & Virtual Team Issues

Global Integration boasts a unique database containing over 3000 team members from around the world.

This ongoing survey of remote and virtual team members around the World consistently reveals that the top five virtual team management issues are:

• We are so busy with the content of what we do we do not spend enough time on the process of how we are doing it.
• We don't see each other often enough
• The team is the wrong size
• The activities of the virtual team are not visible to the rest of the organization
• Not everyone on the team shares the same purpose

What will the program help me do?

Introducing the Three Dilemmas of Remote and Virtual Management and our team development process.

The workshop will answer the following questions:

• How do remoteness and time pressure change group and leadership behaviors?
• What is the right balance of task and team?
• What is the right balance of control and autonomy in the way we work together?
• What causes divided loyalties, and what can we do about them?
• When do we need to be a team anyway?
• The "Superman Syndrome" - what it is, and how do we avoid it?
• When to communicate and how often is enough?
• How to manage your team when the travel budget is cut?
• When to get face-to-face, and when is it better to avoid it?
• How to stay visible when you are remote? The lessons of refuse collection;
• How can I get things done through others when I'm remote and have no line authority?
• Remote Coaching - what is the point? Isn't it just more work, when I don't have the time? ;
• The art of traveling less.... without damaging your career;
• How to accelerate the transfer of learning throughout dispersed teams?

Case Study: Novartis

With almost 80,000 employees spread over 140 countries, an effective training solution was no simple task.

Read our case study to find out how Global Integration helped Novartis.

Find Out More

Global Integration can diagnose your performance, identify any major issues, and benchmark your organization against hundreds of other team :take a look at our unique remote and virtual teams questionnaire and benchmarking process.

Contact us to discuss how we can tailor a program to suit the needs of your remote and virtual teams.