"Knowledge workers are believed to produce more when empowered to make the most of their deepest skills; they can often work on many projects at the same time; they know how to allocate their time; and they can multiply the results of their efforts through soft factors such as emotional intelligence and trust. Organizations designed around the knowledge worker are thought to integrate the best of hierarchy, self-organization and networking rather than the worst. Each dictates a different communications and rewards system, and requires activation of knowledge-sharing and action learning. A basic pattern rule of human systems is that when you mix them you will get the worst of each unless you contextually and carefully attend to connecting the best." Peter Drucker

We currently offer:

The Art of Virtual Leadership (3 Hour Half Day Workshop)
Leading remote workers and managing virtual teams in The Anywhere Office™

"You can have a highly productive and collaborative team regardless of where everyone is located."

Remote management is not radically different from managing people on-site: it requires the performance of basic management skills such as goal setting, assessing progress, giving regular feedback, and maintaining frequent, ongoing communication. However, while telecommuting and mobile work provide tremendous benefits to any organization, leading remote employees and managing dispersed teams have some unique challenges.

The difference is a shift in management style and the use of appropriate technology. The whole organization benefits through adjustments like learning to manage by results rather than activity, and by focusing on improving communication and nurturing trust between managers and employees.

This workshop focuses on learning to rely less on "eyeball" management and mastering techniques for improving communication to keep on and off-site team members connected.

Managers will learn how to evaluate the best technology to help their team collaborate across time and distance, as well as strategies for both real-time and ‘off-line’ document and project collaboration. These tools, along with the proper management techniques we teach, will ensure that virtual teams keep on top of projects, improve communication, and stay motivated and on schedule.

The Art of Virtual Leadership is a concentrated workshop designed to provide the essential knowledge, skills and best practices needed by managers of virtual (geographically-distributed) teams and teleworkers.

It will help them and their teams overcome the obstacles of communicating, supervising, leading, team-building and trusting at a distance. Our meeting, management tips, and communication strategies help participants maximize time and results.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Managers, directors, project leaders of global virtual teams and remote teams, senior managers and regional team members.

Each attendee receives:

Workshop Handout Virtual Leadership Checklist Customizeable Action Plan Team Time-Zone Spreadsheet

 

ACT NOW and receive an ADDITIONAL BONUS

Digital copies of all 5 of the books from our popular 2-Minute Tip Book Series (Laptop Tips, Email Tips, Virtual Team Tips, Palm PDA Tips, and Home Office Tips) One of our core philosophies is that even small adjustments to the way you work often have profound effect. In order to help you improve your virtual teamwork you will also receive digital copies of our five 2-minute mobile work and virtual team tip books. The goal of our tip book series is to help you master a specific mobile work tool or strategy in a short period of time. We break each book down into 35 solid how-to tips and secrets, each of which can be digested or implemented in about 2 minutes, so you can take action immediately and be more productive today. Every one of the tips in these books will save you time, energy, money, or resources. This collection provides 175 concrete, practical tips to help improve your virtual teaming. These are downloadable eBooks so you can start putting these time-saving tips into place within minutes!

Download The Art of Virtual Leadership Workshop Description and Pricing Details

Online Training for Managing Virtually

While we do offer our workshops live at your location, the most popular format of delivery are our on-demand and live webinars:

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

Don't just send a handful of regional managers to a conference for virtual team management training and then rely on them to pass the knowledge on to their employees and coworkers. Our on-demand webinar makes training accessible and saves money; not only the cost of travel associated with live workshops and seminars, but also the cost of conference call lines, web meeting platforms, and recording fees associated with typical web based training.

BENEFITS OF OUR ON-DEMAND WORKSHOPS

• Convenient. Available on Demand 24 x 7 for 60 days upon registration. Viewable at user's preferred time and place. Bring valuable information right to your desktop conveniently available to watch and learn from anytime, anywhere with just the click of a button. Start training your managers within minutes of registering!

• Saves Money. Expert training while eliminating the cost of airfare, hotels, restaurant meals, travel time, and incidentals. Lower costs per attendee and higher ROI than in-person events. Our on-demand webinar let's you view our prerecorded workshop at reduced prices.

• Wide-reaching. Available to those who can’t physically attend a meeting. No geographic or time restrictions. Participation in a our on-demand workshop can be based on who can benefit most, rather than who is physically available.

• Consistency. Makes your job easier by spending less time developing courses or searching for training. Provides consistency by ensuring all managers receive the same training

As an integral component of your company's virtual team, remote management, or other distributed work program, the best practices taught in The Art of Virtual Leadership on-demand webinar help ensure that your company's virtual teams are effective and successful. Enroll all of your managers or your whole team with our affordable volume discounts.

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or to register for our on-demand webinar.

LIVE WEBINAR

These comprehensive, interactive virtual workshops are delivered as web conferences which include online slides, exercises, demos, polling, and audio via conference call. These half-day, “online” versions of our workshops are segmented into two, 90-minute sessions, typically with a week in between. Participation is possible anywhere there is a telephone and a computer with Internet access. Audio is delivered over the telephone and the slide show and relevant documents can be viewed simultaneously via a web browser. There are many advantages to conducting a virtual workshop over the Internet rather than having us come onsite.  These include the following:

BENEFITS OF OUR VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS

• Travel time and costs
  The cost of airfare, hotels, restaurant meals, travel time and incidentals can be eliminated. 

• Meeting participation
  Geographic location does not restrict who can attend meetings.  Participation in a our online workshops can be based on who can benefit or contribute most, rather than who is physically available.

• Recordings of workshop
  We can record the workshop for you so that people who are registered but are unable to attend a session can watch the recording at a later time or date.

• The workshop becomes a case study in best practices
  Not only does the content of our workshop teach managers how to lead and communicate effectively with remote teams - our virtual delivery takes a "walk the talk" approach that actually teaches managers how to conduct effective virtual meetings and collaborate remotely by using polling, brainstorming, and application sharing.