Virtual Teams: Working Together Apart

October 12th

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Barry Flicker
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935 Stewart Drive
Sunnyvale, CA
$400 Corporate Training Partner
$500 Non-Corporate Training Partner

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.

  • Understanding the special success factors required of remote teams
  • Identifying the Work Breakdown Structure of remote team breakdowns
  • Discovering, through the Remote Team 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
  • Using the diagnostic tool to target success strategies for remote teams
  • Improving email filtering to save time and increase actionability
  • Using web profiles to dramatically increase accessibility, contact reliability, and team cohesion
  • Targeting key technology issues
  • Implementing the five 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

Great class, great tools, great exercises to make you think - energizing.
  -Blue Coat Systems, Sr. HR Business partner


Good information on Project Management, Cultural Awareness, Communication, Team Building and Meeting Planning.

This course had a lot of interaction, good exercises and was very thought provoking.
  -Lam Research, Sr. Manager






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