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Interactive Training for Government AgenciesFast-Track Team Building for Virtual Teams Webinar
Team Building Webinar: Key Skills for High-Performance Virtual Teams - Communication, Collaboration, Connection, and Coaching
This team building webinar addresses one of the greatest challenges a team can have – not being or feeling “connected. How are virtual teammates expected to operate as a high-performance team when its members are not co-located. This webinar will give team members the tools to overcome that challenge.
In this webinar we focus on the critical skills to become a high-performance virtual team:
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Communicating as a Team
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Collaborating as a Team
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Connecting as a Team
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Coaching the Team
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This can be especially hard when teams are suddenly separated from an onsite location to an individually located environment. Depending on the team assessment, current events that may be impacting team productivity, this course is tailored to target the specific needs of the team. As a result, the duration of this webinar training session can be scheduled in 90-minute time-blocks. Training deliverable options are listed below. (The typical webinar duration is two or three sessions.)
Training designed for all team members.
This training is for all members of any virtual project or work team, including brand new teams, established teams, or dysfunctional teams.
This interactive webinar is designed to bring every team member and the team lead up to spread as an vital part of the virtual team. Where all team members become part of a unified team working together for a common goal. A pre-webinar survey may be done via email or phone interview to pinpoint the areas that need work and allow us to customize a skill-based, interactive training program for your team.
Training Benefits:
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- Prepare or revitalize the virtual team
- Create or increase a sense of identity and purpose for a new team
- Create or refine team norms, especially around communication preferences and regularly scheduled meetings
- Create greater team cohesion leading to greater team effectiveness
- Improve the goal-setting process of your team
- Give teams time and structure to evaluate their systems, customer satisfaction levels, and measurable results
- Give teams time and structure to create action plans for new projects, or for improving processes on current projects
Overview of Training Topics Developed
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- Creating rapport and building relationships with virtual teammates
- Creating and committing to team communication norms
- Dealing with the question. “Are they really working?”
- Tips for building and maintaining trust from a distance
- Examining the pros and cons of virtual communication options – email, telephone, web conferencing
- Setting goals, objectives and performance standards
- Developing conflict management approaches in a virtual environment
- Working together to solve problems and manage change in a virtual environment
- Effective facilitation skills for virtual meetings
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- Creation of written team norms
- Creation of team charter, including roles and responsibilities
- Creation of a team mission and vision statement
- Creation of new team goals and objectives
- Creation of new team performance standards
- Creation of a “press release” to describe the team’s function to other teams within the organization
Working remotely and Virtual teaming is here to stay. This new reality presents unique challenges to high performance. For future success, businesses must ensure employees have the essential skills to be effective remote employees and virtual teammates.
Take advantage of our low-cost Instructor-led webinar and onsite training for all employees and management personnel.
For more information call us at 1-877-385-5515
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Leading Effective Virtual Teams - Webinar
Learn specific strategies and techniques team leaders use to make virtual or remote teams more effective and successful.
In this interactive webinar you’ll learn how to develop and lead effective teams of people working remotely. Effective use of technology is critical but so is strong leadership skills to communicate, plan, solving problems, coach and manage conflicts between people electronically.
(This 3-hour webinar can be split into two 90-minute sessions.)
We focus on leadership skills for better virtual team communication, collaboration, connection and coaching.
Training Benefits
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- Implement techniques and strategies that improve remote worker effectiveness
- Make online collaboration work - encouraging different views – considering options
- Overcome the dangers of distance – physical – operational – culture – time
- Improve trust between diverse team members
- Develop a more cohesive team that performs when the pressure is on
Virtual Team Building topics covered in this webinar:
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- Getting started - Prepare the virtual team members
- Where are you now? (A self-assessment of current leadership and team effectiveness)
- Creating virtual team culture for success
- What to expect – what is expected of you
- The new realities
- Leadership and management skills to enhance for virtual team success
- Facilitation techniques to communicate and elicit feedback in virtual meetings
- Identify how team members differ in work style, communication style, culture, and more…
- Recognizing issues and “read” feelings over the phone and video conferencing
- Set team goals effectively
- Techniques to improve collaboration
- Handle conflict effectively during team meetings and outside of them
- Use both asynchronous and synchronous methods for exchanging and evaluating information
- Tracking performance
- How to coach the off-site employee
- Resolving team conflict in a virtual environment
- Provide the means to handle a variety of work schedules
- Actions to take when the pressure is on
- Construct an approach to coaching, counseling and correcting individual remote team members
- Create your Action Plan
- Getting started - Prepare the virtual team members
Working remotely and Virtual teaming is here to stay. This new reality presents unique challenges to high performance. For future success, businesses must ensure employees have the essential skills to be effective remote employees and virtual teammates.
Take advantage of our low-cost Instructor-led webinar and onsite training for all employees and management personnel.
For more information call us at 1-877-385-5515
Or email us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Team Building Training Information
Learn Team Building Skills to Develop High Performing Teams
Alliance Training and Consulting Team Building training takes you beyond the buzzwords and titles. We get to the core of building a team. We show your managers how to bring people together.
We provide solutions to move from group work to teamwork.
Our Team Building training gives a powerful boost to the spirit and effectiveness of any group. Our interactive, activity-based team building programs lead to better understanding, clearer direction, stronger motivation, and greater team productivity. Alliance will create a team building training program for your company using our Team Development Model.
Our Team Development Model addresses five key elements of the team performance
- Purpose
- Plans
- Team Dynamics
- Individual and Team Goals and Objectives
- Motivation to Achieve Results
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Why Management Training is Important to Team Building
Managers typically understand the need for team plans, but many have difficulty planning team efforts that utilize the skills, abilities and style of individual team members most effectively. Plus, most managers find it difficult or do not know how to communicate the team vision and purpose in a manner that motivates the team to achieve the goals and objectives of the plan.
Adding to these challenges is the team building effort are team dynamics. Often managers do not understand group dynamics or know how to create the right team dynamics to help the team function effectively when the pressure of deadlines and change are looming.
Managers will learn how to motivate and inspire the team as a whole.
Our activity-based training focuses on team building techniques managers and supervisors can implement for immediate and sustained improvement in team spirit and performance. We provide practical “how-to’s” for effectively managing team conflict, different personality types, communication styles, team dynamics and more!
Team Building Training Benefits
- Turn “work groups” into “high performance teams”
- Implement the five critical elements of a peak performance team
- Use team rules that play a crucial role in team success
- Balance individualism with teamwork to motivate individuals and the team as a whole
- Effectively communicate and work with different personality styles
- Capitalize on the strengths of individual team members
- Communicate and gain team buy-in to achieve goals and objectives
- And much more...
Alliance can help your organization manage and motivate team efforts at all levels.
All of Alliance’s programs are customized to fit your organization's unique requirements. Plus, our training is 100% guaranteed. We will make certain your training targets your people and your organization's needs.
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Challenges for Agile Teams- $149.00
Agile Team Building course helps managers get their team on track to decipher and solve problems.
Product Code: AgileChallenges
Duration of Course Access: 90 Days
CEU Credits: .5 (Contact Hours: 5 hours)
Total PDUs/ Contact Hours: 5
Strategic & Business Management PDUs: 0.5
Technical PM PDUs: 2.25
Introduction and Overview
This intermediate-level course is designed to help Agile practitioners decipher and solve the problems that arise regularly in their work. The course begins with 16 video segments from seasoned Agile trainers and practitioners who provide tips and best practices for addressing Agile team challenges. The course then presents 20 short case studies that test the students understanding of Agile practices and provide guidance for resolving common problems. The case studies are structured to simulate the conversations and interactions that happen regularly on Agile projects; seeing these disputes as narratives will help students learn to deconstruct issues and diagnose the underlying problems that need to be corrected, just as they would in their everyday work. As students decode these disputes and plan appropriate responses, they'll gain the experience they need to guide their teams and to put them back on track to deliver value to their customers.
After completing this Communicating Collaboratively course, you will be able to:
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- Identify the underlying issues that lead to common problems for Agile teams
- Help team members recognize when their behaviors are inhibiting team development
- Describe ways to keep an Agile team focused on delivering value
- Uncover additional stakeholders and project participants to enhance project feedback
- Give examples of the must have skills that product owners should possess
- Reorganize daily stand-ups to improve their performance
- Summarize options for overcoming velocity estimation mistakes
- Outline effective rewards and acknowledgments that promote team cohesion and interaction
Key Features of this course:
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- Mobile-friendly
- Badge and credit-awarding
- Real-world case studies
- Fully accessible
- Expert-supported
- Audio-enabled
- Video content
Notes:
Estimated time to complete: 5 hours
This course has an "Ask the Expert" feature, which submits your questions directly to an expert in the field you are studying. Questions are answered as quickly as possible and usually within 24 hours.
This course does not require any additional purchases of supplementary materials.
Learners must achieve an average test score of at least 70% to meet the minimum successful completion requirement and qualify to receive IACET CEUs. Learners will have three attempts at all graded assessments.
CAPM®/PMP®/PgMP®
Technical PDUs: 2.25
Leadership PDUs: 2.25
Strategic/Business PDUs: 0.5
PfMP®
Technical PDUs: 0
Leadership PDUs: 2.25
Strategic/Business PDUs: 0.5
PMI-ACP®
Technical PDUs: 2.25
Leadership PDUs: 2.25
Strategic/Business PDUs: 0.5
PMI-PBA®
Technical PDUs: 0
Leadership PDUs: 2.25
Strategic/Business PDUs: 0.5
PMI-RMP®
Technical PDUs: 0
Leadership PDUs: 2.25
Strategic/Business PDUs: 0.5
PMI-SP®
Technical PDUs: 0
Leadership PDUs: 2.25
Strategic/Business PDUs: 0.5
Refund Policy:
You may request a refund up to 5 days from the purchase date. The registration fee will only be refunded if less than 10% of the course has been completed. Completion percentage can be viewed on the Course Progress page from within the course.
Estimated Time to Complete: 5 hours
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Team Building Training Articles
Guidelines in the following resources helps foster team spirit and achieve better team results.
Alliance strives to provide reference and educational tools to keep you apprised of the latest information to help you and your organization achieve top performance. Click to read the articles listed below.
Team Building Training Articles
| The 12 Essential Characteristics of Teamwork |  |
| Harness the Power of Micromessaging | |
| 7 Steps for Successful Team Building Events | |
| Team Manager’s Checklist | |
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