Virtual Teamwork with International Business Partners

Introduction on virtual teams

• The paradigm change: Working from the distance.
• Prerequisites and challenges for a virtual team.
• Team-assembling and -monitoring.

Shared leadership

• Roles and responsibilities in virtual teams.
• New team leader's function in a virtual team.
• Knowing about leadership styles.
• Team member's leadership skills and competencies.

Toolbox: Virtual team

• Preparing yourself for success.
• Optimizing self-management.
• Time management over different time zones.
• Work-life-balance.

Communicating in virtual teams

• Appropriate communication forms.
• Reliable communication culture from the distance.
• Giving and receiving objective feedback.
• Successful business meetings.

Analyzing of individual and group dynamics

• Developing self-awareness.
• Focus on team building.
• Achieving success in challenging situations.
• Handling conflicts constructively.

Increasing team's performance

• Identification of strengths and weaknesses.
• Motivational factors of virtual teams.
• Fostering the network.
• Building up high-performance teams.

Working in culturally diverse teams

• Developing intercultural sensitivity.
• Successful teamwork in international environments.
• Different thinking patterns and behavioral styles.
• The challenges of working virtually in intercultural teams.

Establishing value orientation in virtual teams

• Developing your mission and strategy.
• Creating win-win situation.
• Integrating of third parties.
• Promoting an unique team culture.