The Challenge of Long Distance Team Working
Module 1: Understanding the way virtual teams operate
1. Challenges and opportunities of virtual teams
- In what ways are virtual teams different from “normal” teams?
- In what ways are they similar?
- Various types of virtual teams
- Challenges and opportunities related to virtual working
2. Intercultural challenges
- Dealing with differences, confusion and indifference
- Understanding and mastering time and space-related factors
- Managing risks and uncertainty
- Interacting with the group, the hierarchy and authority
- Identifying and understanding your cultural profile and that of others
- Making effective use of cultural differences within virtual groups
3. Sharing information and communicating effectively at long distances
- Communication process for virtual teams
- Affective and cognitive aspects of remote communication
- IT and collaborative tools: the choice and optimization of the technology
- Speaking a common language
4. Adapting tools and working methods
- The definition of individual and collective roles within projects
- Team building and team working
- Assessing the tasks performed by staff members (important and urgent)
- Skills assessment and expected results
- Remote knowledge management
- Remote conflict management
Module 2: Maximizing the effectiveness of a virtual team
1. Generating virtual team dynamics
- Defining the vision and objectives of a virtual team: creating meaning
- Drawing up a "virtual team charter" including the team's commitments
- Confidence in virtual group environments: forms and mechanisms
- Creating a group consciousness
- Power and influence in virtual environments
- Developing your E-leadership
2. Preparing and running remote meetings
- Various types of remote meeting
- Preparation, organisation and follow-up: the role of a meeting organizer
- Fully understanding sources of influence and decision-making processes
- Anticipating latent conflicts
- Reconciling cultural differences
3. Skills management for virtual teams
- Expected results: Acquiring the know-how required to succeed in long distance teams
- Developing key skills of members of virtual teams
- Assessing the added value generated by long distance working
- Analysing strengths and areas for improvement
- Remote working and personal challenges
4. Identifying best practices
- Listing the skills identified during the seminar: knowledge, know-how and interpersonal skills
- Identifying personal and professional challenges when it comes to improving and consolidating your remote working abilities
- Identifying and encouraging best practices from existing or future virtual teams based on the skills acquired at the seminar
Public Courses
- 2 on-site days (Paris)
or - 3 remote half-days
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