Overview

Participants will learn techniques, tips and best practices for communicating in virtual teams, facilitating virtual meetings, and building a team culture across geography, space and time.

Specifically, attendees will learn team building techniques that create cohesiveness in virtual teams and will come away with specific tips for garnering full participation from team members and working across geography, time and national cultures. A special area of focus will be placed on developing skills for facilitating virtual meetings and conversations and their ability to understand what is occurring as conversations unfold.

Objectives

• To further develop virtual team communication skills that result in strategic, cohesive and collaborative teams
• To explore a variety of tips, techniques, and best practices, ranging from the best medium in which to create a message to the actual delivery of a message
• To identify and strategize possible solutions to real world business communication challenges in virtual team settings
• To practice interaction management techniques for facilitating virtual team meetings
• To apply global strategies when communicating across various mediums in multicultural groups/teams

Who Should Attend

Managers, leaders and individual contributors who want to further develop their virtual team communication skills

Key Topics

• Virtual team communication
• Maximizing contribution from team members
• Practicing meeting and facilitation techniques
• Selecting the best medium for the message
• Influencing team development
• Building trust in teams
• Reducing uncertainty in virtual teams
• Communicating globally

Teaching Approach

Janel Anderson, a business consultant and coach, brings a research-based approach together with extensive experience in corporate virtual team communication teaches this half-day program. The interactive classroom style provides an opportunity for each participant to learn new concepts, apply them in an engaging way, and obtain feedback from the instructor and peers in small group settings.
Tuition

$ 495
Location

Furnished upon registration.