Leading Virtually™ Training Program
Remote teams deserve inspiring leadership, too
Today’s workforce is increasingly working from home and other remote locations, with teams located across countries and time zones around the globe. As a result, managers need help to connect with their people through time lags and technology interfaces. It’s the new normal. And it comes with a new set of benefits and challenges.
Managing in this environment differs from working together in the same physical space. It can be challenging to understand what your people need and even harder to build rapport and trust over long distances. Leading Virtually™ teaches the skills managers need to increase the effectiveness and productivity of their remote staff.
Learn the formula for engaged virtual workers
The Leading Virtually course offers learners a highly interactive experience that includes instruction, responses, reflection, group activities, and opportunities to practice new skills in a safe setting. Based on almost 20 years of helping managers lead virtual teams, this program focuses on three key practices proven to boost manager effectiveness in a virtual environment.
Managers first learn how to Be Attentive and Mindful by communicating intentionally with remote team members, structuring conversations for maximum impact, and honoring each other’s work preferences.
Leaders then learn how to Foster Community by building trusting and supportive relationships that stay positive and involve all their people, using the technology available.
Finally, managers learn to Accelerate Performance and Development by building the team’s resourcefulness and autonomy, and helping remote workers identify a career path and move forward in their careers.
Delivery Options to Meet Your Needs
We can deliver the Leading Virtually course as three virtual sessions so your managers can learn how to lead their remote teams more effectively wherever they are and whenever they have time.
Virtual
Leading Virtually is a virtual instructor-led course that unfolds over three two-hour sessions. The virtual sessions offer learners a highly engaging experience that includes instruction, responses, reflection, group activities, and opportunities to practice new skills in a safe setting. The program also allows learners to share stories and best practices in their transition to managing others virtually.
Virtual Instructor-led Courses
Prework: LAUNCH – Engaging prework assignments, including an assessment, that explain key Leading Virtually concepts
Session 1: LEARN – Be Attentive and Mindful: Teaches leaders how to interact with remote workers and understand what’s harder about managing virtually.
Session 2: PRACTICE – Foster Community: Allows participants to focus on the subtleties that make all the difference when leading remote teams.
Session 3: PRACTICE – Accelerate Performance and Development: Participants learn to balance soft and hard issues, people, and performance.
Post Work: APPLY – Reinforce course learnings with online tools available to master the content and use it with others.
Cultivate the potential of your remote teams
Remote workers are, on average, 20% more productive and half as likely to seek other jobs as those who work in a traditional setting.*
* Stanford University, Why Working from Home is a a "Future-looking Technology."
Learn The Unique Leadership Skills Required To Lead Successful Virtual And Hybrid Teams
Leaders who practice being attentive and mindful, fostering community, and accelerating performance and development will see higher satisfaction, engagement, and productivity in their people who work remotely.
Boost Connection
Through more intentional and structured communication, strong virtual leaders can boost their connections with their people.
Improve Employee Engagement
Great leaders connect remote team members to the larger organization by actively facilitating collaboration, creating a team culture, and building community.
Increase Autonomy & Empowerment
Effective virtual leaders increase their people’s resourcefulness and autonomy so they consistently meet goals and deliver results.
Create A Culture Of Courageous Inclusion
It takes more than just awareness building and familiarizing people with DEI terminology to enable lasting culture change. Give your people the confidence and skills they need to create an inclusive, welcoming work environment that encourages people to bring their whole selves to work.
Delivery Options to Meet Your Needs
We can deliver Conversational Capacity in-person, as virtual sessions, as part of a learning journey, or delivered in a self-directed online or moderated online version, so your managers can learn the methodology wherever they are and whenever they have time.
In Person
Virtual
Online
The in-person course is one full day. With hundreds of facilitators worldwide, we can deliver sessions for your organization or equip you to run them yourself. Public courses are also available.
Prework: LAUNCH — Welcome the participants and set the context for individuals and teams to reach new levels of performance through various activities to engage in open, balanced, and nondefensive conversations.
Session 1: LEARN — Defines awareness as the ability to recognize the two powerful emotional reactions and how they are essential for staying in the sweet spot.
Session 2: PRACTICE — Defines the Conversational Capacity Skillset, which includes specific behaviors people can use to balance candor and curiosity.
Session 3: APPLY — Introduces the Curiosity Skills, which highlights the advantage of having the humility to seek out information that might be missing and to understand others’ points of view.
1 Day Instructor-led Course
The Conversational Capacity virtual course includes prework assignments completed before the first course, with three two-hour live virtual sessions spread out over time. The virtual sessions offer learners an engaging experience that includes instruction, group activities, and opportunities to practice new skills.
- In the virtual sessions, participants develop new skills by completing activities based on personal work challenges
- Participants receive a set of online tools to aid in mastering the content and using it with others
Virtual Instructor-led Courses
Let us know if you'll need Continuing Education Units prior to starting your course!
- 6 SHRM PDCs
- 6 NASBA CPEs
- 6 ATD Credit Hours
Collaborative Online Course
Conversational Capacity can be delivered online in a collaborative, moderated class over five weeks, with assignments and cohort meetings once a week during one-hour live virtual inspire session. It is self-directed learning blended with discussions, exercises, reflection, and offline assignments. Participants gain skills for keeping conversations open, balanced, and productive, ways to maintain a learning-focused mindset, methods for overcoming obstacles to Conversational Capacity.
Online Overview
This 35-minute online overview teaches the core concepts of Conversational Capacity through micro-learning activities. Ideal for learners who need an overview of the content or a refresher, this course design can be used along with virtual and in-person sessions, or as part of a learning journey, to create more flexible learning experiences. Optional Reflect and Share sessions are also available.
Digital Assets
Set of nine micro-activities ranging from one to five minutes that learners can use during moments of need. The playlist includes videos, activities, and worksheets on topics such as influencing up, tackling touchy topics, why arguing backfires, and leaning into difference.
Communication can be a business driver or a derailer
80 %
the U.S. workforce reports feeling stressed because of ineffective company communication. 63% have wanted to quit because ineffective communication interfered with their ability to do their job.*
Up to 41 %
Companies with better relationships and communication experience 20% higher productivity, 21% higher profitability, and 41% lower absenteeism.**
*Dynamic Signal, 2019 Dynamic Signal Study. | **Wellness Council of America,The ROI on Better Workplace Conversations.
Good Listeners And Communicators Unlock Your Workplace’s Potential
Conversational Capacity is the foundation for a positive and productive workplace. It redirects all the energy wasted in unproductive exchanges into channels that benefit people and the enterprise.
Engage Employees
When people have honest and meaningful conversations, morale rises and the workplace buzzes with enthusiasm.
Spur Innovation
People share ideas. Colleagues contribute. A good idea evolves into a great one. That’s how innovation happens.
Improve Productivity
The gap between what people say and what others hear closes. Miscommunication and misunderstandings evaporate, and real work gets done.
Ready to Get Started?
Leading Virtually is delivered as a virtual course. Contact us today to learn how we can help your leaders learn the skills they need to lead successful remote teams.
Ready to Get Started?
Contact us today to learn how we can help your leaders learn the skills they need to manage and develop their people effectively. Whether you prefer to use well-established, standard training designs or to tailor your learning experiences for your employees, we can help you succeed.
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