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The Research on Virtual Teams - What Works Best
8 Lessons-
StartIntroduction to the Research
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StartResearch Results from the Harvard Business Review
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StartSurvey of Users: Introduction
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StartActivity 2: Evaluation of Best Practices
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StartAdvice from the Users
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StartOne Thing You Could Do to Improve
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StartSurvey Feedback on Meeting Technology
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StartThe Future of Meeting Technology
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Facilitation Skills that Make VT Meetings Effective
16 Lessons-
StartDeveloping Your Virtual Team Charter
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StartActivity 3: Writing Your Team Charter
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StartTeam Roles and Responsibilities
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StartWhat is the Skill of "Facilitation?"
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StartThe Agenda
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StartThe Action Plan
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StartThe Power of Visualization
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StartDecide How You Will Decide
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StartActivity 4: Choose Your Decision Styles
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StartFacilitaton Skills: Organizing & Clarifying
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StartFacilitation Skills: Reflecting & Motivating
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StartFacilitation Skills: Comforting and Controlling
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StartFacilitaton Skills: Concluding & Bringing to Consensus
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StartFacilitaton Skills: Resolving Conflicts
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StartResolving Conflicts continued
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StartActivty 5: Practice Conflict Resolution
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Leading Virtual Teams - A Quick Course
How to Optimize the Effectiveness of Virtual Teams With Great Team Leadership
Course Summary
Leading Virtual Teams is designed to build the skills of virtual collaboration and teamwork. It covers issues around the use of virtual meeting technology, including a comprehensive survey of meeting software, user advice and recommendations. But, the primary focus of this course is on the human side, the skills of facilitating and participating in virtual teams.
Course Curriculum
Lawrence Miller Miller
Larry Miller has forty-five years of consulting from textile mills in the South, foundries on the banks of the Monongahela River, oil refineries in Texas, and healthcare organizations in Canada. He knows very well the real-life issues of building high performing teams and changing ingrained habits among both executives and union members. The goals of self-management, lean processes and organization are easy to agree on. The challenge is in the process of changing habits, mindsets, and cultural norms. This has been his work. Author of eleven books on management and leadership and sixteen online courses in lean management and corporate culture.