Global Teamworking for Business Leaders

Course Number:  127-BB
Recommended Duration:  ½ Day

Intended Audience
Executives and senior managers who lead and manage resources in multiple international locations and whose teams operate with limited face to face contact.                                               

Course Overview
Teams with members who operate with limited face to face interaction i.e. across organizational, geographical or time boundaries, face unique challenges in achieving their goals. It is important that business leaders create the organizational environment and provide the collaboration methodologies and technologies to enable global teams to overcome these challenges and effectively deliver business objectives. Participants will gain an overview of the organizational elements required for successful global teamworking and will learn the use of the Organizational Diagnostic Tool.

Objectives
As a result of taking this course, you will learn to:

• Understand the unique challenges faced by dispersed teams
• Understand the organizational elements required for successful virtual teamworking
• Use the organizational diagnostic tool
• Assess your own organization and create a strategy for effective global teamworking

Prerequisites:  None

Topics

• Virtual teams

• The challenges of virtual teamworking

• Global teamworking: critical success factors

• Team design and dynamics

• Organizational systems and support

• Collaboration methodologies and technologies

• Culture and diversity

• Resources and stakeholders

• Creating a strategy for effective global teamworking

• Organizational diagnostic tool

• Developing a strategy for successful global teamworking