A team leader’s success and effectiveness largely depends on their ability to guide other people’s work. This is particularly challenging during uncertain times, or when they are leading matrixed, virtual or remote teams.

Participants will explore the normal stages agile teams go through as they work together. And they’ll examine the key factors that help teams achieve high performance in turbulent times.

Increasingly, global teams are working remotely and within matrixed structures. So, participants will investigate how they can enable their remote teams to collaborate more effectively across borders and cultural boundaries.

Finally, participants will create an action plan for their own teams, using all their new concepts and tools.

What will your leaders be able to do?

Empower local or remote teams to achieve high performance in turbulent times by:

• Appreciating the challenges that teams face as they work together towards high performance
• Identifying the key success factors of an agile high-performing team
• Working effectively with matrix, virtual and remote teams
• Applying best practice principles and tools to their own teams

What will they work on together?

Leading agile high-performing teams

• What stages do agile teams go through as they work together?
• Direction: creating a vision, defining flexible objectives, and agreeing on key performance indicators
• Commitment: clarifying roles and responsibilities and building an operating rhythm
• Versatility: learning and adapting as circumstances change

Leading virtual, remote and matrixed teams

• Typical challenges that virtual and remote teams face
• Building successful and productive relationships remotely
• What technologies can remote and virtual teams leverage?
• Challenges and opportunities of a matrix structure

Bringing it all together

• Creating an action plan for our team
• Tools that are relevant specifically to our action plan