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Virtual Team Management Series
Learn how to best manage your team virtuallyPreview the first lesson free — get full access to all 18 lessons.
Intermediate Provider : David Walker 18 Lessons · 44m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese
Course Description
Virtual teams are groups of people who are assigned with completing a task, long-term project, or both in a setting where team members are not meeting face to face. Virtual teams and virtual meetings are becoming more common in organizations of all types and it is important to learn how to manage in this environment.
After completing this course, you’ll know how to effectively manage a virtual team. We’ll discuss how to select the right tools to conduct virtual team meetings, team alignment principles, management tools a virtual team can use to produce effective outcomes, and applicable management theory.
What You'll Learn
- Understand virtual teamwork and how to produce effective results
- Select the most appropriate technological tools to fit your needs
- Achieve maximum virtual team productivity
- Manage your team proactively to achieve the best possible results
- Communicate expectations and build trust while keeping lines of communication open and clear
- Define roles, resolve conflicts, monitor progress, and recognize achievement while working remotely
Key Takeaways
- Virtual teams are groups of people assigned to complete a task, long-term project, or both in a setting where team members are not meeting face to face.
- Virtual teams and virtual meetings are becoming more common in organizations of all types, making it important to learn how to manage in this environment.
- Effective virtual team management includes selecting the right tools to conduct virtual team meetings and applying team alignment principles.
- Management tools and applicable management theory help a virtual team produce effective outcomes.
- Managing remote work involves communicating expectations, building trust, distributing responsibility, managing virtual meetings, and recognizing achievement.
Frequently Asked Questions
What will I be able to do after completing this course?
After completing this course, you'll know how to effectively manage a virtual team, including selecting the right tools to conduct virtual team meetings, applying team alignment principles, using management tools to produce effective outcomes, and applying applicable management theory.
What topics does this course cover?
The course covers a changing landscape of work, technological tools of remote work, the structure of virtual work, communicating expectations, building trust, distributing responsibility and task management, electronic etiquette, scheduling guidelines, managing external challenges, managing virtual meetings, defining roles and resolving conflicts, monitoring progress, and recognizing achievement while working remotely.
What is a virtual team?
A virtual team is a group of people who are assigned with completing a task, long-term project, or both in a setting where team members are not meeting face to face.
What skills will I gain from this course?
This course builds skills in distributed team management, team building, team management, virtual collaboration, virtual teams, and virtual production.
