Managing Distributed Teams-Course Outline
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Managing Distributed Teams – Course Outline
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Managers are the key to your program success
Properly preparing managers for the distributed work experience is arguably the most important investment you will make for ensuring ultimate program success. Why? Because managers are directly responsible for setting the tone and atmosphere for change among their team. If managers understand the mission, can articulate the goals and can be enthusiastic about the positive potential that distributed work has to offer, they’ll be well on their way to success.
–As a manager, if you’re not sure whether team members are working when they’re mobile, or in multiple locations, then you may not be ready for the digital workplace–
Simply stated, Managing a distributed team requires new skills for managers. The e-Work.com course entitled “Managing Distributed Teams” is designed to do just that: to provide managers skills, tools, and best practices for managing a team working in multiple locations. The course, provides each manager with the knowledge, tools and guidelines for:
- Getting on board: Manager buy-in is critical. Managers must learn, accept and support the program strategy and objectives, and visualize how their team best operate in a distributed work environment.
- Embracing distributed work: Managers are shown why their role is critical to the programs success. Each must take responsibility for overcoming the challenges their team will face, coaching each individual to set personal improvement goals, and is provided the tools to create a plan to lead the team.
- Creating a distributed community: Managers are shown how to create an atmosphere of strong team connections, promoting a culture of learning, building a framework of team trust, and directing change toward improving team quality of life.
- Building a high-performance distributed team: The course provides managers guidance for streamlining their work effort and positioning their team for top performance by realigning expectations with work activities. Through the use of new tools and updated processes, managers are provided guidance for driving new levels of team accountability and engagement, increasing individual and team performance.
- Enabling highly effective communication: Creating a distributed work environment offers managers an excellent opportunity to upgrade team communication skills. Using the tables, strategy guidelines, communication planning chart along with action steps from this course, managers can standardize on team communication tools, protocols and consistency to maximize team collaboration.
Customizing Your Course: This e-Learningmodule is easily customized with your content, messaging and images using our exclusive Rapide-Learning Development Engine. We start you off with our fully detailed best practices content on MS Word documents. You simply edit these documents with your content and images and return them to your e-work.com production team. We then map your changes intoour automatede-Learning system, and you’ll typically see your changes in the onlinemodule within 24 hours.
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