Building Successful Distributed Teams
Travel budgets down? Organisation undergoing restructuring?
Do you have an increasing number of virtual teams?
Are you increasing the use of video-conferencing / NetMeetings?
Moving to a matrix, project-driven organisation?
How can you motivate, influence and coach people from a distance?
Are you confident handling team members from other cultures?
Pertec offers a unique, industry-leading solution to revitalise your teams.
Typical situations we deal with:
Legacy team
You have inherited a legacy team as a result of structural changes.
You suspect that some people in this team are quite demotivated.
How can you get them to work together effectively?
Existing team with changes
Your current team has changed due to reorganisation and lay-offs, some have left, some
remain – how do they feel? Are they communicating effectively? Are they on track? Are they
performing their work productively? How can you achieve your breakthrough targets?
Brand new team
Despite the difficult times, you are in charge of a new multinational team for a major project
across the international group. You have not managed a team or task of this size, complexity
or importance before. Your boss has given you this extra responsibility; failure is not an option.
How can you give the project team the best possible chance of success?
- Can you predict and pre-empt likely areas of inter-cultural difficulty?
- How do you get the results you need, on time and on budget?
Programme outline
Pre-work
- Self-assessment – the Four Worlds
- Team diversity assessment – how virtual is your team?
Full training day (face to face or virtual)
First things first – deep business case analysis
- Team role definitions, current project status
- Strengths and weaknesses in current communication
- Analysing existing protocols & procedures, define areas for improvement
Team activity (1.5 - 2.5 hours)
- Highly engaging web-based team activity - Novicraft (4 – 7 players per group).
- An enjoyable, neutral environment with a variety of tasks to solve
Reflection and de-briefing
- Peer and trainer feedback, team dynamics, roles & effectiveness
- Improving discussion dynamics, Q & A process
- Handling disagreement, conflict and deadlock
- How can you improve individual and team performance?
- The essentials of effective distributed team-work and collaboration
Outputs
- Back to the Future – revisit the business case, apply lessons learnt
- Personal and Team Action Points
- Develop Team Communication Charter & commit to it
Optional input - Cross-cultural analysis of the cultures involved
- Communication styles, listening habits, decision-making
- Building trust and developing relationships across cultures
- Leading and managing the Net Generation
Further support
- Individual and team coaching (see website)
- Consultant observations of real-time video-conferencing
