McCombs School of Business
Texas Executive Education
Executive Education : Open Enrollment Programs : Leading Dispersed Teams

Virtual Leadership: Leading Dispersed Teams

Title: Virtual Leadership: Leading Dispersed Teams Enroll
Dates: October 26-27, 2009 or May 20-21, 2010
Registration Deadline: 3 weeks prior to program start date
Late Registration (within 3 weeks): Contact Registrar' Office to check space availability.
Duration: 2-day program: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Faculty: John A. Daly, Ph.D., Deirdre B. Mendez, Ph.D.
Cost: $2450.  Fee includes all program materials, breakfast, breaks, and lunch for each day. Team rates and alumni discounts available. Registration is not complete until payment is received.

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Description

At a time of corporate belt tightening, people are traveling less and meeting less frequently with their fellow team members and leaders. Virtual teams are already a fact of the global marketplace as companies leverage talent diffused across the world and technology allows better communication. This trend is increasing rapidly as travel restrictions lessen face-to face interaction. In this program, we examine what it takes to successfully work with, and lead, distanced teams. The session, drawn from recent research, identifies the necessary skills members of a virtual team need for creating successful teams. The session introduces a two-stage model of distance leadership and teaches participants how to more effectively work with, and lead, teams that work far apart.

Topics

  • Why virtual leadership is critical in today’s tough global business environment
  • Basic principles for leading a distanced team
  • Essential teamwork skills required on a distanced team
  • Optimal strategies for communicating effectively on distanced team
  • Motivating people from afar
  • Building and maintaining trust in virtual
  • Working cross culturally: The challenges and opportunities that different cultural backgrounds bring to virtual teams

Key Benefits

  • Learn why virtual teams are so important to organizations today
  • Understand the dynamics of virtual teams
  • Discover ways of managing people from afar when it is difficult to afford regular face-to-face meetings
  • Acquire strategies for effectively communicating with distanced team members
  • Become skilled at working with two stage model of virtual leadership
  • Recognize you employees’ development needs
  • Identify appropriate resources for employee development
  • Find out what really keeps valued employees from leaving when they work from a distance
  • Know how to use the performance management process as a retention tool

Continuing Education Units

Participants earn 1.4 continuing education units (CEUs) and a Texas Executive Education program certificate.