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THE VIRTUAL TEAM BUILDERSWORKSHOP SERIES

Creating an Effective and Impactful Virtual Team

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Virtual meetings are essential for the remote team to survive. However, thechallenges of virtual conferencing constantly arise: delayed starts, loss of controlfor the organizer, multi-tasking by members, and disengaged participants.

Virtual meetings must have a solid agenda and should be organized in order tobe effective. By creating a more efficient and organized framework for virtualmeetings, your company will reduce the costs associated with low productivity,overlooked deadline, and poor morale.

Meet Me in Cyberspace:Conducting Effective Virtual Meetings

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At the end of the session participants will be able to:

1. Create solutions to the challenges of facilitating an effective virtualmeeting2. Identify the best practices needed to effectively facilitate a virtual team

meeting3. Develop 4 techniques to improve interactivity and involvement on ateleconference

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Meet Me in Cyberspace:Conducting Effective Virtual Meetings

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Virtual teams must learn to work together as if they were in the same room. Theinability for virtual teams to connect can be detrimental to the team and canjeopardize the success of the project.

Therefore, it is imperative for the team and its leaders to be proactive indeveloping strategies so that virtual teams are enabled with the right tools to excelin the absence of a face to face environment. This is best outlined using a

behavioral assessment process.

Using a behavioral assessment process approach to improve virtual teamcommunication allows individuals to read behavioral cues in a virtual

environment. Understanding and responding to these behavioral cues can assistvirtual teams in improving and opening up communication, as well as enhance

overall group dynamics thereby increasing productivity levels.

The Communication Connection:

Getting it Right

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In this 2.5 hour session you and your team will learn to increase awareness of the

relationship between individual behavior styles and the team performance. This iscritically important in a virtual team where creating an atmosphere of trust can bedifficult to achieve.

At the end of the session participants will be able to:

1. Determine the goals of the DiSC behavioral profile2. Identify the characteristics of each behavioral style3. Describe the strengths and challenges each style brings to the team4. Share strategies for communicating more effectively with individual teammembers5. Identify three key questions you can use to recognize peoples styles

6. Develop strategies for adapting your behavior to others on your team

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Getting it Right

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In a virtual team setting it is critical to have guidelines for how your team is going towork together. These guidelines are called a Team Operating Agreement.

A Team Operating Agreement defines the set of behavioural norms that the teamcommits and agrees to abide by. It guides the teams actions and interactions.

Geographic, ethnic, personality and cultural differences can impact the

effectiveness of how individuals and teams act, interact and operate.

Creating a Team Operating Agreement will minimize the potential for conflict,increase open communication which builds a collegial team. It will also build theskills to increase awareness of differences and how to be effective with others youdo not see. It will enhance tolerance levels of the entire team while they become a

more in-tune cohesive business family.

Making Norms the Norm:

The Team Operating Agreement

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Managers and team members who are geographically dispersed and who wish todevelop Rules of Engagement to work more effectively and efficiently will

benefit from this 2 hour seminar.

At the end of the session participants will be able to:

1. Describe the role that expectations play and how to manage them2. Analyze how a TOA can help build a cohesive virtual team3. Define the components of a Team Operating Agreement4. List an eight step process to creating a Team Operating Agreement5. Develop the guidelines by which your team will operate

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Making Norms the Norm:

The Team Operating Agreement

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Whether communicating with a colleague in the next office or across the world,virtual working is the norm of the twenty-first century. Virtual communicationnetworks have made virtual teams possible, while globalization has made them anecessity.

Leading virtual teams presents new challenges to leaders. Virtual team leaders must

find ways to successfully manage people who are separated by distance, timezones, and cultural differences.

This 2 hour session offers a framework for successfully leading virt and TeamRepresentatives have about virtual teams: How to work toward overcoming commonvirtual communication challenges, time zone issues, lack of non-verbal cues and

intonation, technology limitations or failures and multi-tasking distractions.

Leading a Virtual Team:

Same Game Different Rules

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This session focuses on how to maximize your virtual team management skillsand build the capabilities necessary to create a team environment which fosterscontinuity, growth and learning.

At the end of the session participants will be able to:1. Identify the leadership skills necessary to succeed as a virtual team leader and

member2. Clarify how to implement these leadership skills3. Define why trust is important to a successful team and how to get it

VIRTUAL TEAM BUILDERS Workshop Series will Teach you "how

.....and paves the way to becoming a "Certified Virtual TeamProfessional"

Cost: $97.00Date: March 30, 2010Time: 7:00 AM EST 1:00 PM ESTRegister at:

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Same Game Different Rules

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Like in any team, trust is a crucial element for successful virtual teams. Yetsince technology facilitates most communication between members, buildingtrust and getting people to work together towards a common goal is one of themost challenging tasks faced by corporate Leaders and Managers.

Building relationships at a distance is significantly more difficult to than in face-to-face teams. This 2 hour session will enable corporate Leaders and Managersto build a strong team foundation using virtual team energizers.

Bridging the Distance:

Team Energizers

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At the end of the session participants will be able to:

1. Discover virtual team communication techniques2. Experience 5 team energizers3. Discuss how team energizers can help build collaboration

Bridging the Distance: Team Energizers

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Claire is a pioneer in virtual team building,specializing in helping teams that aregeographically dispersed reduce their costs and

reach their maximum potential through training,coaching, consulting and designing. She bringsover a decades worth of corporate training

experience, working with 4,500+ Managers in thepast three years alone. Some of her clientsinclude: AT&T, Weyerhaeuser, CIBC, Siemens, Bell

Canada, USDA Forest Services, Bayer andBoeing. Visit them atwww.virtualteambuilders.com

Order All Five Workshops and receive a 10% discount.

Meet Me in Cyberspace: Conducting Effective Virtual Meetings (March 9)The Communication Connection: Getting it Right (March 16)Making Norms the Norm: The Team Operating Agreement (March 23)Leading a Virtual Team: Same Game Different Rules (March 30)Bridging the Distance: Team Energizers (April 6)

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