Virtual team leadership
Virtual team leadership objectives
The target of the module is to develop and enhance the requisite skill set and leadership competence to operate in and or lead a virtual team.
The module will explore best practice in virtual team leadership, and provide guidelines on developing the competencies to work successfully in or lead a remote, cross-cultural, cross-functional team in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment across a matrix organization.
The participants will explore and elaborate solutions to work related challenges in communication, project management, relationship building, performance management and leadership in a virtual team.
Virtual team leadership objectives
- Challenges in working or leading virtual teams
- Understanding virtual team type and associated skill requirements
- Effective use of virtual technology and tools
- Essentials for effective team functioning; clarity and alignment on team purpose, accountabilities and interdependencies, processes and PM standards, external and internal communication plans and norms, performance management standards
- Building and sustaining virtual team motivation
- Balancing face to face and virtual interaction
- Building a network community
- Overcoming silos and committing to group goals
- Building a team culture, identity and trust