Consulting · Team, Leadership & Motivation
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.
Collaboration in virtual teams
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- you will learn what is required for efficient virtual teamwork
- we develop a tailored framework for smooth online collaboration with you (methods, tools, workflows, rules, best practice advice)
- we help with delivery and implementation
- and you learn how to lead remote teams particularly well
The challenges of virtual/remote teamwork
- Trust
- Usually grows only slowly, but disappears fast (the more virtual, the faster!)
- Reliability
- Not knowing the strengths and weaknesses of the individual team members
- Projections and misunderstandings
- Fast escalation because of little personal contact
- Communication
- A missing grapevine means, in effect, no short official channels and a harder time exchanging information quickly
That's what virtual/remote teams need
Awareness
Awareness of the challenges and the pitfalls – and of how to steer around them
Good habits
To offset the remote/virtual handicap
Tools & skills
To systematise virtual collaboration and make it easier
Clear workflows & agreements
strengthen trust, make collaboration easier, reduce friction
Training and support
Using tools skilfully, extending capabilities, practising remote team leadership, and Team Development for remote/virtual 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
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
- Clear responsibilities,
- sensible distribution of tasks
- motivating objectives
- established processes
- Conveying a "framework" for smooth virtual collaboration
A supplementary coaching for managers / team leaders has also proved particularly effective in securing lasting team development.
Proven actions
The following actions have proved particularly effective for working together 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
- set up the virtual workspace best suited to you
- make sure the team really uses it
- and we help implement efficient working processes – tailored to your team, based on "best practice" from our many consulting projects
Important factors include:
- Effective working habits, e.g. reducing the time spent on meetings and emails by setting up cloud-based asynchronous workspaces,
- Less stress
- and an invitation to, and the means for, continuous innovation
In this phase we support 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 highly context-dependent and have to be improved constantly. Management control does not work at a distance either.
We help your team replace this control with accountability and motivation, which makes the work far more rewarding and more productive.
Your benefits from our training/coaching:
- Insight into the opportunities, needs and weak points of your team
- Selecting and implementing the best tools for collaboration
- Virtual training in using the tools and in putting collaboration and leadership on a new footing.
- Clarifying responsibilities, roles and interfaces in virtual teams
- Why shared guidelines and objectives matter, and how to develop them
- How to improve the collaboration and joint development of your virtual team overall
Additional services for team leaders and managers
01
Coaching for team leads
to strengthen them in their new role as virtual managers
02
Coaching for team members
on specific topics such as cultural differences, conflicts of interest, trust, team roles, differing working styles and personal preferences
03
Facilitation of workshops, project kick-offs, mediation
with all the know-how of experienced organisational developers and change managers
04
Workshops for generating ideas
online, remote, activating, efficient.
Your benefits
Assurance in leading distributed teams
through a better understanding of the (new) distributed team situation and of the challenges and opportunities of distributed collaboration
A stronger sense of team and belonging
by deepening the relationships within the team with the help of virtual team rooms and team rituals.
Efficient teamwork that works
through transparency and clearly agreed responsibilities, workflows & interfaces.
Resolving conflicts and preventing future escalation
through our targeted coaching of the team leadership or manager
Our trainers for online Team Development
Free initial consultation
Not convinced yet? Try us out in a free initial consultation:
We discuss your challenge together
We set out possible solutions
If you are interested in taking things further, we draw up an outline proposal
Costing of the work involved
Here you will find all the information you need:
What our clients say
What clients say about our work with distributed teams
A big thank you for facilitating the workshop. We came out of the day as a team, with a good sense of togetherness and a clearer picture of the way ahead. The workshop was well worth it.
Everyone was very happy with your facilitation. The agreements we reached together are working wonders. The team workshop did us a great deal of good.
You were a real asset to our team development. Many thanks.
Your attentive, well-grounded facilitation and the inspiration you brought helped us a great deal. The team was delighted too.
Thank you for this team development process. I am glad we booked you.
The team development was genuinely excellent preparation for our strategy retreat.
A very helpful, well-run workshop. The results served us well through the restructuring phase too.
Many thanks again for the excellent collaboration, the organisation and the very good workshop results.
The change management training was very good. You understand the subject in real depth, and it shows.
You prepared our workshop thoroughly and precisely. Both the method and the facilitation fitted our objectives very well. We were able to carry on working very successfully with the results. Many thanks.
Four days of workshop and still playful, creative, inspiring and well structured, with good methodology. Thoroughly recommended.
Thanks again for the excellent workshop — we have already started putting the first ideas into practice, and enjoying it.
Free initial consultation
Our offer: training in interactive workshop methods.
Are you looking for in-house training or do you need support in planning and running activating workshops? We have more than 21 years of experience in training and applying interactive methods and would be glad to advise you!