Leading Virtual Teams, Instructor Edition

Leading Virtual Teams

Course Specifications

Course Number: ELK88–748_rev2.0

Course length: 1 day

Course Description

You have the general leadership skills you need to lead a team. You may even have successfully led a team. Now, though, you’ve been asked to lead a virtual team. In this course, you will develop the knowledge and skills you need to lead a high-performance virtual team.

Course Objective: You will practice skills and apply principles for leading virtual teams so your team can achieve high-performance status.

Target Student: This course is intended for team leads, managers, and first-time managers with no virtual team experience.

Prerequisites: The prerequisites for this course are general team leadership skills.

Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Hardware Requirements

  • A Pentium® III with 500 MHz (or better), or Macintosh® Intel-based or PowerPC G4 (or better) processor.
  • At least 512 MB of RAM.
  • A monitor capable of 1024 x 768 screen resolution and 32-bit color display.

Platform Requirements

  • Microsoft® Windows Vista®, Windows® XP (Professional or Home Edition), Windows 2000, or Apple® Mac OS® X 10.4 (or higher).

Software Requirements

  • Microsoft® Windows Vista®, Windows® XP (Professional or Home Edition), Windows 2000, or Apple® Mac OS® X 10.4 (or higher).
  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7 (or higher), Mozilla® Firefox® 2 (or higher), or Apple® Safari® 2 (or higher), with pop-up blocking turned off.
  • Adobe® Flash® Player 8 (current version recommended).

Performance–Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • put together a virtual team poised for success.
  • create a virtual work environment that supports vteam culture.
  • respond to external influences so vteam contributions are relevant and understood.
  • ensure vteam success so the team can achieve its potential for high performance.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Putting Together a VTeam

Topic 1A: Establish VTeam Priorities
Topic 1B: Obtain VTeam Resources
Topic 1C: Identify Cultural Differences
Topic 1D: Establish VTeam Culture

Lesson 2: Creating a VTeam Work Environment

Topic 2A: Choose Technology
Topic 2B: Train a VTeam

Lesson 3: Responding to External Influences

Topic 3A: Be a VTeam Ambassador
Topic 3B: Manage Reactions to External Sources of Change

Lesson 4: Ensuring VTeam Success

Topic 4A: Manage VTeam Performance
Topic 4B: Celebrate VTeam Success