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Leading Virtual Teams

How to drive productivity, collaboration and make your team a success

Coronavirus has many of us working from home. In this “new normal”, virtual teams are a fact of life. But for managers and team leaders, they pose a challenge. How can leaders ensure their teams perform effectively from a distance? And how to motivate employees, maintain trust and foster shared goals from afar?

The good news: There are solutions. In fact, when leaders get the essential elements right, virtual teams can be more effective than traditional teams.

In this 60-minute webinar, you’ll discover strategies to enhance your ability to lead high-performing, effective virtual teams. Featuring Smith organizational behaviour professor Jana Raver. 


Participants will learn:

  • The challenges leaders face managing virtual teams

  • The foundations of virtual team collaboration success

  • How to design your virtual team

  • Why we still need a virtual water cooler

  • How to lead a high-performing team across distance

  • Technology and tools you can use to succeed

Session Leader

Dr. Jana Raver

E. Marie Shantz Professor of Organizational Behaviour
Jana Raver is the E. Marie Shantz Professor of Organizational Behaviour at Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, and is also cross-appointed to the university’s Department of Psychology. She is an authority on interpersonal relations and team dynamics at work, with a specific emphasis upon the ways in which employees build and sustain high-performance teams. She is also an expert on workplace diversity and cultural differences, and her award-winning research has been published in numerous prestigious journals.

 

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