Managing Remote Teams Training Course

Is Managing Remote Teams Training Course right for me?

This workshop-style Managing Remote Teams training course is designed for middle and junior managers who run teams that are spread over more than one location, nationally or internationally, and who wish to find ways to enhance teamworking in these conditions.

Remote teams present a specific set of challenges to their managers. Such challenges include communication, task allocation and performance management.

This relaxed but business-like workshop explores the issues of remote teams in depth with the aim of building a set of actions for managers to implement at work.

The content assumes that managers have studied teamworking already or have attended a fundamentals course such as our Essential Management Skills course.

What will I get out of Managing Remote Teams Training Course?

By the end of the Managing Remote Teams training course participants will be able to:

• Identify key actions to take to manage team performance remotely
• Implement a communications plan for use within the team
• Allocate tasks to team members to build a culture of teamworking across the different locations
• Involve their team members in planning team activities
• Use visits to each location to maximum effect

Related courses in our range

• Essential Management Skills
• Excellence in Management
• Managing Meetings with Impact

What does Managing Remote Teams Training Course cover?

Identifying the challenges we face with our remote teams

Generating a sense of belonging amongst all

Communication in the team

• How do team members find out the latest news?
• Identifying what needs to be known by all
• Formalising the information flow
• Meetings and briefings
• Written communications
• Getting best effect from team meetings
• Identifying key contacts between locations
• Using ‘informal’ communication channels

Managing performance from a distance

• Allocating tasks and objectives across the team
• Clarifying the flow of work in the team
• Identifying areas of expertise
• Deciding key areas of responsibility per location
• Identifying, and dealing with the different levels of performance

Involving the whole team in planning and change

• Creating the atmosphere for participation
• Identifying the most suitable medium for communication
• Overcoming the challenges posed by working remotely
• Gaining commitment to implement actions when the manager is not present

Maximising time in each location

• Setting the tone of a visit – from ‘inspection’ to ‘social call’
• Considering what team members expect and need from your presence
• Identifying what needs to be prepared by the team for your visit
• Making contact with your team members while you are there
• Getting into effective and efficient routines

Action planning time

• The final part of the workshop gives participants time to consider and plan what they want to implement back at their workplaces as a result of the learning