How to Manage and Influence your Virtual Teams
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Manage virtual teams by understanding the basics of team dynamics and synergy, and employing appropriate communication styles.
Bodhih workshop on Influence management skills includes competencies required professionally for influence management consulting.
Managing virtual teams can be a challenging assignment in the world of distributed workplaces. With global teams working in matrixed environments it is a different kind of environment that managers are required to manage. There are time zone differences and then there are local social and cultural influences that are to be accommodated for managing virtual teams. Often the modes of communication are completely electronic for little scope of physical meeting. This often places added pressures on the team dynamics and the managers of such team need to have special tips and techniques to be able to facilitate deeper ways of engagement.
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How to Manage Virtual Teams Effectively?
Bodhih’s Manage Virtual Teams workshop covers in detail modules like team dynamics and synergy, the communication style for today’s virtual teams, and the fundamentals to create trust and self-awareness and to use emotional intelligence in aligning the team goals and energies to the larger corporate entity. Additionally, also discussed are the practical strategies to bring in team coordination and a sense of brotherhood through daily rhythms.
Bodhih’s workshop on Manage Virtual Teams through influence management helps participants to understand the underlying mindsets of their team members and ways are to delay behavior through the iceberg model of wants-needs-motives. Bodhih Facilitator uses group activity, class presentations, individual reflection activity to surface how participants can relate to real-world experience and bond with virtual team members across the globe. There is a game called Communication Crazy Quiltz that provokes team dynamics questions and that is followed by a facilitator debrief session.
Manage Virtual Teams workshop takes into account all the basics that make best teams. Influence management fundamentals are opened up to understand where effective communication fits into the context of team management in organizations and its relevance.
The team in the classroom with Bodhih’s facilitator’s real-world illustrations brings out the techniques to avoid poor communications by reducing drops in energy and values alignment with the larger corporate organization.
Manage Virtual Teams and influence management training delayers the appropriate communication styles by asking participants to undertake a self-assessment and returning results on the major orientation we all lean towards. Bodhih’s facilitator thereafter debriefs on how specific communication traits can be used to leverage personal strengths and enhance the team dynamics across virtual teams.
Managing Manage Virtual Teams and Influence management program delves into the cultural literature and extract readings by the class participants.
Bodhih’s facilitators are seasoned professionals who create linkages between skills picked up in the workshops and then to apply them in participant’s current roles.
This is done through specific illustrations and analogies and is true for the sessions at Manage Virtual Teams and Influence management training – self-awareness.
Through facilitator led presentations and group discussions, participants are familiarised to understand the nuances of self-awareness and its place within the emotional intelligence framework. The learners begin to role play how to use self-awareness in interpreting positive and negative aspects in corporate environment, and further brainstorm on strategies to align virtual teams’ purpose and mission to the larger unit.
Bodhih’s Manage Virtual Teams and Influence management workshop, next moves to the session on corporate team dynamics, and its impact on virtual teams. The importance of connecting isolated employee voices to the meaningful group output as it shapes, through technological systems. Learners get into role-plays next to appreciate how to hold the team together during uncertainty.
At Bodhih, the manage Virtual teams and Influence management course is a popular session that is part of a larger leadership skills training suite.
The session brings the latest research done on virtual team management strategies sourced from management consulting case studies.
The heart of Bodhih’s Manage Virtual Teams training lies in the powerful session handling feedback. Led through a case study, participants gather relevant cultural nuances pertinent to giving and receiving feedback within virtual teams. There are techniques with checklists in the class to conduct real-time role-plays and feedback sessions on what works and what does not.
The session progresses through individual reflection and instructor-led presentation that finally wraps the workshop with details on how to summarize and consolidate the personal insights, class observations, action plan, and a note to myself that visualizes future success.
How would you gain from India’s best manage virtual teams and influence management courses at Bodhih?
Bodhih customizes it’s “Manage Virtual Teams” workshop along the ADDIE model. Workshop experiences are analysed, designed, developed and delivered that are solution focused and include a range of blended training pedagogy such as role plays, group exercises, self-assessment tools, management games, individual activities, videos, case studies, facilitation, discussions and more.
In addition to the ADDIE model, the manage virtual teams process sessions takes advantage of the experiential adult-learning process of concrete experience – reflective observation – abstract conceptualization – active experimentation.
The edge in Bodhih’s manage virtual teams and influence management training comes from researched industry learnings, current best practices and academic insights. The workshop takeaways ensure that learnings are grasped and applied at all levels within a company and its individuals. The long-term benefits are to embed specific communication practices for virtual team dynamics, and communication styles with specific ways to leverage technology as particular for virtual teams.
What is Bodhih’s promise on manage virtual teams’ and influence management workshops?
Managers across industries and functions and executive level participants who have attended Bodhih’s sessions on manage virtual teams talk of the changed individual and team behaviours, namely, demonstrating higher appreciation of diverse thinking and communication styles, aligning individual team goals to the larger corporate goals, and leveraging technology to bridge the gaps between time zones, and cultural differentiators.
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