Lowe’s – Leading and Managing in a Virtual Environment
Description
The pandemic has forever altered our work environment, and so the ability to successfully navigate the challenges that come with leading, managing and supervising a virtual or hybrid team now has become an even greater expectation of anyone in management. Given this new reality, what can you do to build employee commitment and involvement within a virtual team environment? In this critical and timely course, you will learn how to minimize the problems associated with leading and managing a virtual or hybrid team — in a way that maximizes performance, morale, and retention. You also will discover key strategies for doing this in a way that strengthens communication, solves problems more easily, and empowers significantly more productivity. Note: This course can be conducted in either a 4 hour or 8 hour format.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Communicate and clarify the four key virtual/hybrid performance expectations.
Customize key strategies for providing feedback virtually in a way that strengthens future performance.
Apply best practices for creating self-managed employees who can thrive within a virtual environment.
Uncover specific ways to increase employee involvement and build employee commitment when your full team is not in the same location.
Identify ways to avoid/reduce frustrating miscommunication problems related to virtually leading and managing your team’s portfolio of projects.
Use language of virtually holding any team member accountable without developing resentment.
Maintain control over delegated work quality while managing virtual team members.
Major Topics
The importance of interim deliverables within a virtual/hybrid environment — and when to leverage them, and with which employees.
The keys to empathetic virtual listening.
Critical digital tools to successfully lead and manage virtually.
Proven ways to virtually gain employee loyalty and respect.
The best ways to empower initiative within every virtual team member.
Five critical ways to virtually motivate any team.
How to virtually build a solution-focused team whose members will minimize problems and save time.
4 ways to minimize the “do it myself” syndrome while leading and managing virtually.
How to avoid the downside — and maximize the strength — of your virtual communication style.
Provider
Business Learning Institute
Course Level
Intermediate
CPE Field of Study
Business Management & Organization
4.0
Who Should Attend
Leaders, managers and supervisors within the organization.