Leading Virtual and International Teams

This training is for executive managers in line functions or in projects. The focus is on targeted decision-making in international groups, effective communication with different business cultures, using productive disagreements and coordinating team efforts.

Participants learn to:

• define and reach goals,
• optimise their own demeanour in a team,
• use communication styles effectively and efficiently,
• utilise difficult situations as an opportunity,
• improve their language skills, when the training is conducted in English.

During the seminar, participants reflect on their practice of:


• long-distance communication,
• emotional intelligence,
• mediation and
• conflict resolution.

All input is based on participants' cases.

Selected Methods

• Participant's critical situations (Critical Incidents),
• Models of communication in project realisation,
• Co-ordinating project and team phases,
• Strengthening motivation,
• Handling difficult communications across cultures,
• Diagnosing interests,
• Selecting team members and assessing potential,
• Strengthening skills of perception and persuasion,
• Instruments of facilitation,
• Technical management of video or telephone conferences,
• Agreeing on targets and reaching them together,
• Leading feedback talks,
• Cultural characteristics from selected regions,
• Role playing and simulations,
• Staff coaching by the team leader.
• Mitarbeiter-Coaching durch die Führungskraft.

Duration:

2, 2½ or 3 days

Location:

In selected own rooms, online or in a hotel of your choice

Group Size:

2 - 12 participants