Virtual Team Leadership

Overview/Description
 Can you distinguish between the roles of leadership and management? How do you manage or lead a virtual team? This course will differentiate between leadership and management as they pertain to virtual teams. You will learn about the various roles a virtual team leader can play and how to fulfill these roles successfully. You will explore the emerging models of leadership and how you can adapt these models to your own virtual teams. This course is a must for inexperienced virtual team leaders, and a wonderful review for experienced virtual team leaders.

Target Audience
 top-level managers, training managers, human resource managers, functional managers, supervisors, team leaders

Expected Duration
3.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Leading vs. Managing

  • recognize the importance of leading virtual teams.
  • identify the characteristics of the four different types of leadership.
  • identify the essential components of leading in the world of business.
  • differentiate between effective and ineffective methods of leadership in virtual teams.

    • The Logistics of Leading a Virtual Team

  • recognize the value of identifying important logistical elements on a project.
  • identify the effective communication strategies to use when leading a virtual team.
  • identify methods of handling time issues for the virtual team.
  • identify ways to counteract dissociation among virtual team members.
  • identify behaviors by a team leader that indicate a healthy organizational culture.

    • Roles of the Leader in a Virtual Team

  • recognize the critical importance of roles required to provide successful leadership for virtual teams.
  • differentiate between the roles of director and mentor in leading virtual teams.
  • differentiate between the roles of producer and facilitator in leading virtual teams.
  • distinguish between the roles of coordinator and innovator in leading virtual teams.
  • differentiate between the roles of monitor and team-builder as they apply to virtual teams.

    • Leadership: A Paradigm Shift

  • recognize the benefits of using emerging leadership models for the virtual team.
  • identify the attributes of the emerging leadership models.
  • identify effective methods to train emerging leaders of virtual teams.
  • identify the qualities and characteristics of an effective 21st century leader.

    • Course Number: TEAM0225