Managing Remote Teams

About this course

Establishing a strong communication pattern, fostering cooperation, and addressing conflicts are key components to managing remote teams.

This course deals with the challenges of remote work, focusing on issues like fragmentation and confusion.

It highlights the importance of reinforcing team purpose, objectives, and principles, using technology to build a strong team identity and explores the impact of weak connections in remote settings and advocates for effective technology use.

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Self-led online courses include

Support for over 100 languages

Mobile-friendly design for playback on any device

Progress tracking and pass/fail tests

Automatic, remote updates to keep content fresh

Playback speed controls to speed up/slow down the video

Closed captions which can be turned on/off

This course covers

How remote working can cause a sense of fragmentation and confusion
Agreeing and reinforcing team purpose, objectives and principles
Creating opportunities to develop a strong sense of team identity via technology
How remote working can result in poor and infrequent connections between people
Providing and using the most effective technology for each communication need
Setting up a strong pattern of communication events with specific purposes
How remote working can reduce effective cooperation and collaboration
Supporting team members to develop resilient working relationships across distance and technology
Being alert for team conflict and dealing with it effectively in a remote environment
How remote working can increase misunderstandings and reduce information flow
Conducting effective virtual meetings that energise and focus team effort
Promoting professional text-based team communication
How remote working can make it difficult to create a dynamic culture of engagement and motivation
Using a team dashboard to capture team culture and progress
Maintaining a strong personal touch with a motivation check-in with team members every