Live Webinar – June 10th, 2014 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by:  Training Magazine
Duration: 1 Hour 1  Category C  PDU – Free PDU

Can A Virtual Team Be As Effective
As A Co-located Team?

This is a question that organizations are debating, and the arguments on both sides are very compelling.

Factors like work-life balance and organizational savings need to be balanced with the value of face-to-face collaboration and managerial oversight.

Whether you personally embrace the concept or not, chances are you will participate as a virtual team member during your career.

Virtual teams can be very effective
If the correct conditions are met and maintained.

It’s about putting together the right personalities, ensuring they have the right tools, and leading the team successfully.

InSync Training began as a virtual team when you didn’t hear about working from home, and in 15 years has expanded to a virtual team with 60+ members working all hours from all over the world.

After discussing the arguments for and against establishing a virtual team, this workshop will use real-life examples to address six key enablers for success:

• How to form the virtual team: Identifying the profile of an effective virtual team and its players, and how to engage existing team members in selecting new team members
• How to enable the virtual team: Ensuring the right technologies and processes are in place to ensure success
• How to maintain the virtual team: Creating inter-reliability, trust, and teamwork
• How to protect the virtual team: Identifying and managing issues before they become destructive
• How to lead the virtual team: Establishing credibility while maintaining the right balance of oversight and empowerment
• How to reward the virtual team: Creating team building opportunities across the distance

Speakers: Jennifer Hofmann,  (LinkedIn profile, @InSyncJennifer) is the president of InSync Training, and soon to be featured in Forbes Most Powerful Women issue (June 16, 2014.  She has most recently co-authored, with Dr. Nanette Miner, Tailored Learning: Designing the Blend That Fits, a book focused on taking advantage of distributed technologies to create the best blended training solution possible.  Jennifer is also is the author of The Synchronous Trainer’s Survival Guide: Facilitating Successful Live and Online Courses, Meetings and Events, Live and Online! Tips, Techniques, and Ready-To-Use Activities for the Virtual Classroom ), andhas contributed chapters to The Handbook of Blended Learning, The AMA Handbook of E-Learning, and The ASTD Handbook for Workplace Learning Professionals.  Follow Jennifer at her blog, Body Language In The Bandwidth.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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