Presence & Leadership

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Presence & Leadership
Leading and Engaging Remote Teams

Leading and Engaging Remote Teams

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Course description

Leaders of virtual teams need to align, direct, and develop their people. In the absence of face-to-face interactions, leaders of virtual teams must leverage new strategies for developing an environment that is conducive to participation, sharing of ideas, and effective collaboration. To do this, these leaders need to be able to communicate in a way that builds trust and rapport and facilitate team interactions that are inclusive, focused, and productive. In this experience, leaders will learn and practice new behaviors and approaches to help them succeed.

Learning objectives

Leading and Engaging Remote Teams uses best-in-class virtual learning platforms and a unique methodology rooted in actor training to help engage remote team members more effectively, develop stronger presence, make more trusting connections, and facilitate effective meetings that set up their teams for success.

The benefit

Participants will be able to effectively communicate and build strong relationships with team members, clients, or prospects no matter where they are in the world in order to get things done.

Program Agenda

Delivery: 15 participants/session
Audience: People leaders and people managers of remote teams
Timing: 3 live virtual sessions of 2 hours each accompanied by asynchronous assignments

Session #1: Introducing fundamentals of virtual presence
Learn the business case and definition for virtual presence
Understand (virtual) emotional intelligence
Learn interactive approaches for keeping oneself and one’s team present and focused during virtual interactions
Develop the Signals of Virtual Presence, harnessing one’s own voice, pace, energy, posture, breathing, and use of webcam for greater impact in virtual leadership
Communicate with intention, aligning emotions, vocal presence, energy, and message, to ensure messages land and get the desired effect.

Session #2: Fostering team engagement and leading effective team meetings
Build virtual relationships with one’s team through listening and building trust
Create engaging virtual interactions that foster collaboration
Manage and engage virtual teams so that all are included
Work across global borders, cultures, and time zones through adapting one’s approach to the needs of a global team
Use an approach for managing virtual meetings that helps create clarity, generate participation, respond to challenges, and align on next steps.

Session #3: Applying core concepts to participants’ real work context
Brainstorm strategies for combining one’s own technical platform tools (Zoom, Teams, WebEx, BlueJeans, etc.) with the soft skills of the course
Apply concepts to real business interactions: one-on-one conversations, small group meetings, or presentations to a group. Give and receive coaching and feedback on the use of the techniques and tools
Share action plans and final reflections, and close.

Real Results.

“I really see how important virtual presence is and how it will shape and shift the way we do business.”

Participant

From NIAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Upon completion of the Leading and Engaging Remote Teams program, participants will be able to

effectively engage remote audiences using a variety of tools and frameworks
deepen internal and external relationships, even in the absence of face-to-face interaction
make virtual communications more concise, clear, and aligned with their intentions.

Your teams can build relationships, influence others, and get work done while working virtually

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