As with any team, maintaining high performance takes effort. With a remote or virtual team the level of effort needed is much higher. For these teams it is easier for performance to decline simply by virtue of their being geographically dispersed.

Understanding the team and the task

Successful teams have many needs: clear direction, relevant support, targets that are challenging but achievable, and the ability to be kept up to date with each aspect of the project. As a leader or manager of a virtual or remote team, it is crucial to understand the individuals within your team, and for them to understand you.

Like all team situations, trust is the key to building strong relationships – the leader knows that each team member seriously intends to achieve the agreed outcomes. In a remote or virtual team the issue of trust is fundamental to success.

As a leader, Primeast’s leadership and management essentials workshops will help you discover subtle ways to manage individual and collective expectations. These include how much support each person in the team requires, when to take a ‘whole team approach’, or when individual focus is more important.

Benefits

• Fine tunes leadership skills for the remote and virtual world
• Helps leaders and managers build a higher level of trust and commitment
• Improved accountability from all team members
• Increases efficiency in the challenging world of remote and virtual teams
• Improved understanding of decision making and authority
• Energises team behind a common purpose

Features

• Helps leaders and managers understand what their own leadership style is and how it impacts on others
• Examines the tools of a good manager or leader, and how to adapt them to a virtual team
• Reviews participants’ preferred communication styles, and reflects on how it works in the virtual or remote environment
• Examines the giving and receiving of feedback, and how to deliver and handle it long distance
• Understanding the relationship between activity and results in a remote or virtual world
• Helps leaders to team build without the team being present
• Discusses techniques for managing conflict

For 20 years Primeast have been working with clients who are multinational corporations. Working with their dispersed and multicultural teams has given us a wealth of knowledge and first-hand experience for you to draw upon, not only in leading high-performing remote or virtual teams, but in setting them up too – to find out more, click here.

To find out more, contact our offices directly, or email teamwork@primeast.com.

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