Consulting & team development for online teams & virtual 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?
Goals, tasks, responsibilities should be clearer, processes and communication should improve and all this online?

In our work we focus on the potentials of virtual working. This requires new processes, new skills, and a new kind of leadership.

Table of Content

1 Consulting & team development for online teams & virtual teams
2 The challenges of virtual/remote teamwork
3 That’s what virtual/remote teams need:
4 Team development, consulting and coaching of virtual teams
5 Our approach for The team support of remote high performance teams
6 Proven measures
7 Your benefits from our training/coaching:
8 Additional services for team leaders & managers
9 Your benefits
10 Our trainers
11 Juliane Neumann
12 Stephan Dohrn
13 Free initial consultation
14 Our offer in training of interactive workshop methods

In our training

learn what it takes for efficient virtual teamwork
we work with you to develop a custom-fit framework for smooth online collaboration(methods, tools, workflow 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

Trust: Usually grows slowly, but fades quickly (the more virtual, the faster!).
Reliability: Lack of knowledge about strengths and weaknesses of individual team members
Projections and misunderstandings: Rapid and high escalations due to little personal contact
Communication: The absence of “office chatter” means, as a consequence, “no direct channels” and an slow exchange of information.

That’s what virtual/remote teams need:

Awareness:
Awareness of the challenges and pitfalls – and how to “work around” them.
Good habits:
To compensate for the remote/virtual “handicap
Tools & Skills:
To systematize and facilitate virtual collaboration
Clear processes & agreements
… strengthen trust, facilitate cooperation, minimize frictions and information losses
Training and support:
Use tools skillfully, expand skills, practice “remote team leadership” and team development for remote/virtual teams.

Team development, consulting and coaching of virtual teams

Remote teams work with greater complexity than face-to-face teams. Among other things, meaningful compensatory measures 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 team support of remote high performance teams

Clear responsibilities,
sensible task distribution
motivational targets
established processes
Provision of a“framework” for smooth virtual collaboration

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:

Create 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 can help you with that,

set up the virtual workspacethat best suits your needs
ensure that the team actually usesit
and we help to implement efficient work processes – tailored to your team, based on“best practices” from our numerous consulting projects

Important factors include:

Effective work habits, such as 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 all the difference.

The mechanisms for building trust in virtual teams are very contextual and need constant improvement. Management control also does not work at a distance.

We help your team replace that 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 reframe 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 working styles and personal preferences
Moderation of workshops, project kick-offs, mediation
with all the know-how of experienced organizational developers and change managers
Workshops for idea generation
… online, remote, activating, efficient.

Your benefits

Confidence in leading distributed teams

… through better understanding of the (new) distributed team situation, the challenges and opportunities of distributed collaboration
Strengthened team spirit and togetherness

… by deepening internal team relationships with the help of virtual team rooms and team rituals.
Efficient and functioning teamwork

… through transparency and clearly agreed responsibilities, processes & interfaces.
Resolving conflicts and avoiding future escalations

… through our targeted coaching of the team leader or manager

Our trainers

Juliane Neumann

Consultant and Coach. Core competencies: organizational development, change-management, strategy processes, team development, executive training, development of values, mission statements and guiding principles.

Stephan Dohrn

Stephan Dohrn

Consultant and Coach. Core competencies: remote working & remote teams, team development, digital change,
psychological security within teams, agile work in remote working contexts, executive and entrepreneur coaching, change-management.

Secure your free initial consultation here!

Free initial consultation

Not convinced yet? Test us with a free initial consultation:

We discuss your challenge
We will outline possible solutions
We prepare a rough concept for a solution finding process
Calculation of the costs included

Here you get all the information you need:

Free initial consultation!

Our offer in training of interactive workshop methods

Are you looking for an in-house training? Do you need support in planning and implementation?

Arrange a free initial consultation here.

We have more than 19 Jahre experience in training and application of interactive methods and are happy to advise you!

Enthusiastic customer opinions:

Thank you very much for your excellent training course. You triggered many thought processes in me!

Anja SchmitzHead of Regio NordDRK Deutsches Rotes Kreuz

It is impressive how you perceive the group dynamics and how you are able to spontaneously steer the group in a purposeful way towards further progress during the event. We all really appreciated that, and I personally did, too.