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Virtual Teams: Working Together Apart

Course Length: 1 day
This one-day course shows how to turn the liabilities of long-distance communication into powerful assets for the planning and execution of complex projects when contributors must co-ordinate their efforts in the face of time, distance and cultural barriers. It provides an overview of the best practices in project planning and collaboration, remote meeting management, and effective communication to create a coherent picture of how to get things done in today's highly distributed team environments.

Key Topics

  • The Virtual Project Game: Making Remote Meetings work
  • The Power of Contact Contracts
  • Rules of the Game: Bridging the Cultural Divide
  • Understanding the special success factors required of remote teams
  • Identifying Key Success Factors that can make or break Virtual Teams
  • Advantages for Collaboration (vs. Competition)
  • Discovering, through the Remote Teams Game, what blocks long distance collaboration and how you can produce breakthrough results
  • Learning how to translate the Breakthrough Project Management model into a diagnostic tool
  • Improving email filtering to same time and increase action ability
  • Using web profiles to dramatically increase accessability, contact reliability, and team cohesion
  • Targeting key technology issues
  • Implementing the 5 keys to increase the effectiveness and shorten the time spent in meetings
  • Learning how to build trust despite the challenges posed by national and organizational cultural differences
  • Creating an immediate application plan for putting these best practices into immediate use

    • Reviews

    Useful to a lot of people especially in this day and age of distributed groups around the world. Xilinx, Staff Product Apps Engineer
    Very informative and useful in day-to-day situations. Elan Pharmaceuticals, Manager, Security & Employee Training
    Good way to identify self-assessment for more effective and neutral communication. Synopsys, Application Consultant
    Opens your eyes and mind to useful ideas for dealing with other cultures in virtual meetings. IDT, Device Prototyping Manager

    Instructor

    Barry Flicker

    BARRY FLICKER, author of Working at Warp Speed, is a nationally known expert on the of developing high performance organizations through leadership development, project management, team building, communication and negotiating skills. He helps organizations resolve conflict, optimize change and produce quality results by discovering their most efficient blend of technical and behavioral assets.

    Barry brings 20 years of management experience in the computer industry to the design and delivery of corporate training programs. The elements of creativity, inspiration and nonlinear problem solving reflect his years of experience in management.

    This expertise blended with his skills as a performing artist in the fields of magic, acting and standup comedy present a refreshing approach to training. Participants consistently rate his programs "Excellent and entertaining!"


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