Consulting on Team, Motivation & Leadership

Online Team Development and Consulting for Virtual Teams

Team development and consulting for online teams:

Your team is spread over several cities, countries or continents?
Are you faced with the challenge of building a high performance team that needs to work closely together but rarely meets face to face?
Should goals, tasks, responsibilities be clearer, should processes and communication improve, and all this online?

In our online team development, we focus on the potential of virtual working. This requires new processes, new skills, and a new kind of leadership.

In our online team development

you will learn what is required for efficient virtual teamwork
we develop with you a tailored framework for smooth online collaboration (methods, tools, processes, rules, best practice advice)
we help with the realization and implementation
and you learn how to lead remote teams particularly well

The challenges of virtual/remote teamwork

Vertrauen: Wächst meist nur langsam, schwindet aber schnell (je virtueller, desto schneller!)
Verlässlichkeit: Fehlendes Wissen über Stärken und Schwächen der einzelnen Team-Mitglieder
Projektionen und Missverständnisse: Schnelle Eskalationen durch wenig persönlichen Kontakt
Kommunikation: Fehlender “Flurfunk” bedeutet in der Konsequenz “keine kurzen Dienstwege” und erschwerter “schneller” Informationsaustausch

That’s what virtual/remote teams need:

Awareness:
Bewusstheit über die Herausforderungen und Fallstricke – und wie man sie “umschifft”
Gute Gewohnheiten:
Zum Ausgleich des remote/virtuellen “Handicaps”
Tools & Skills:
Um die virtuelle Zusammenarbeit zu systematisieren und zu erleichtern
Klare Abläufe & Vereinbarungen
… stärken Vertrauen, erleichtern Zusammenarbeit, minimieren Reibungsverluste
Training und Begleitung:
Tools gekonnt nutzen, Fähigkeiten erweitern, “Remote Team Leadership” einüben und zur Teamentwicklung für remote/virtuelle Teams

Team Development, Consulting and Coaching of Virtual Teams

Working in remote teams carries greater complexities than working in face-to-face teams. Among other things, meaningful compensatory actions are needed to overcome the disadvantages of physical distance. This is done by

continuous building of team cohesion and trust
clear agreements
well-established processes
reliable internal “delivery relationships” between team members,
Development of a common mindset
Implementation of target-oriented tools

Two essential levels are thus addressed here:

Mindset, trust, good team leadership
Tools, rules, procedures

Our approach for the support of remote high performance teams

Klare Zuständigkeiten,
sinnvolle Aufgabenverteilung
motivierende Ziele
eingespielte Abläufe
Vermittlung eines “Frameworks” für reibungslose virtuelle Zusammenarbeit

Supplementary coaching for managers / team leaders has also proven to be particularly effective in ensuring sustainable team development .

Proven measures

The following measures have proven to be particularly effective for collaborative work in the virtual space:

Creating an effective virtual workspace

A virtual workspace is a place where tasks can be coordinated and completed, and where the connection to the team can be strengthened. We help you

setting up the virtual workspacethat best suits your needs
ensuring that the team actually uses it
and we will help you to implement efficient work processes – tailored to your team, based onbest practices developed from our numerous consulting projects

Important factors include:

Effective work habits, e.g., reducing time spent on meetings and emails by setting up cloud-based asynchronous workspaces,
stress reduction
and inviting and enabling continuous innovation

In this phase we accompany the team with a mixture of training and group coaching.

Building trust and commitment

Good virtual leadership makes the difference.

The mechanisms for building trust in virtual teams are very context-dependent and need to be constantly improved. Management control also doesn’t work over distance.

We help your team replace this control with accountability and motivation, making the work far more rewarding and productive.

Your benefits from our training/coaching:

Insights into the opportunities, needs and vulnerabilities of your team
Selection and implementation of the best tools for collaboration
Virtual training in the use of the tools and to re-organise collaboration and leadership.
Clarification of responsibilities, roles and interfaces in virtual teams
The importance and development of common guidelines and goals
How to improve the overall collaboration and joint development of your virtual team

Additional services for team leaders managers

Coaching for team leaders
to strengthen them in their new role as virtual leaders
Coaching of team members
on specific topics such as intercultural differences, conflicts of interest, trust, team roles, different work styles and personal preferences
Facilitation of workshops, project kick-offs, mediation
with all the know-how of experienced organizational developers and change managers
Workshops for idea generation
… online, remote, engaging, efficient.

Your benefits

Sicherheit in der Führung von verteilten Teams
… durch besseren Verständnis der (neuen) verteilten Teamsituation, der Herausforderungen und Chancen von verteilter Zusammenarbeit
Gestärktes Teamgefühl und Zusammengehörigkeit
… durch die Vertiefung der teaminternen Beziehungen mit Hilfe von virtuellen Teamräumen und Teamritualen.
Effiziente und funktionierende Teamarbeit
… durch Transparenz und klar vereinbarte Zuständigkeiten, Abläufe & Schnittstellen.
Lösung von Konflikten und Vermeidung künftiger Eskalationen
… durch unser gezieltes Coaching der Teamleitung bzw. Führungskraft

Our trainers for online team development

Juliane NeumannRead Article

Juliane Neumann

Consultant and coach. Focus areas: Distributed work & remote teams, team development, digital transformation, agile work in distributed teams, training of leaders in distributed teams

Juliane NeumannRead Article

Juliane Neumann

Consultant and coach. Focus areas: Distributed work & remote teams, team development, digital transformation, agile work in distributed teams, training of leaders in distributed teams

Stephan DohrnRead Article

Stephan Dohrn

Consultant and Coach. Main areas of focus: Distributed Work & Remote Teams, Team Development, Digital Transformation,
Psychological Safety in Teams, Agile Work in Distributed Contexts, Leadership and Entrepreneurial Coaching, Change Management.

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