virtual teams

Next steps

If you're looking for even more information on managing virtual teams, I encourage you to check out Mastering Virtual Teams, Strategies, Tools, And Techniques That Succeed, by Deborah L Duarte and Nancy Tennant Snyder. This is a great book that provides detailed strategies for working with virtual teams, discusses different types of virtual teams, and also presents strategies for working virtual teams into your corporate culture. You can also check out Virtual Teams, People Working Across Boundaries With Technology, by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps.

The Harvard Business Review Blog Network also addresses virtual teams quite frequently and is worth checking out. Lastly, there is another course, right here at lynda.com, that you may want to view, Managing Teams, by Todd Dewett. In the course, he discusses a number of team management principles, many of which can be adopted to the virtual environment. In those, and other resources, you can learn more about managing virtual teams and, in turn, increase your management effectiveness. I wish you the best as you seek to improve your management of virtual teams.

1. Introduction

   1m 40s
   

   1. Welcome

      1m 10s

   2. Using course files

      30s

2. 1. Understanding Remote Team Management

   20m 33s
   

   1. Managing remote employees

      3m 58s

   2. Inheriting a remote team

      4m 13s

   3. Making decisions about remote work

      3m 58s

   4. Working successfully as a remote manager

      4m 27s

   5. Communicating across devices, continents, and cultures

      3m 57s

3. 2. Building Team Relationships

   30m 2s
   

   1. Getting to know your team

      3m 50s

   2. Learning how to communicate

      4m 16s

   3. Deciding what success looks like

      3m 56s

   4. Identifying expectations

      3m 48s

   5. Establishing team norms

      3m 49s

   6. Discovering remote employees' needs

      3m 29s

   7. Using skill and personality assessments

      3m 39s

   8. Understanding habits

      3m 15s

4. 3. Developing an Effective Management Style

   36m 20s
   

   1. Understanding your tendencies

      4m 9s

   2. Using your intuition

      3m 49s

   3. Identifying your team's potential

      4m 2s

   4. Managing some people in person and others remotely

      4m 22s

   5. Dealing with team conflict

      4m 13s

   6. Increasing team engagement

      4m 10s

   7. Special considerations for new managers

      3m 30s

   8. Special considerations for directors and executives

      3m 52s

   9. Special considerations for project managers

      4m 13s

5. 4. Managing Productivity and Results

   23m 28s
   

   1. Managing when you can't see each other

      3m 51s

   2. Holding remote meetings

      3m 50s

   3. Driving team performance

      4m 11s

   4. Developing a solid team-support structure

      3m 34s

   5. Using rewards and recognition

      3m 58s

   6. Evaluating performance on the go

      4m 4s

6. 5. Enhancing Success over Time

   13m 20s
   

   1. Addressing the top five remote management challenges

      4m 8s

   2. Tools for managing virtual teams efficiently

      4m 6s

   3. Evaluating your remote arrangements

      3m 58s

   4. Next steps

      1m 8s