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High Performance Teams Remote Workforce
High Performance Teams (Remote Workforce) are organizations, teams or groups working in a virtual environment that are focused on achieving the same goals. Bringing team members together through a virtual environment can be a challenge task. This workshop identifies these challenges and helps your participants push through to success.
With our High Performance Teams (Remote Workforce) workshop, your participants will begin to see how important it is to develop a core set of high performance skills, while working remotely. By knowing and managing the way people interact in a remote environment, you will be setting up your high performance teams to accomplish any task.
Objective:
- Define high performance teams.
- Define remote workforce.
- Understand the characteristics of a high performance team.
- Understand how to create teamwork.
- Understand the importance of communication.
- Understand how to train your high performance team of remote employees.
- Learn how to manage a high performance team.
- Learn the techniques of an effective team meeting.
Introduction :
Getting Started
In today’s business world, it is imperative to push the envelope on ways to increase productivity, without letting your product suffer. Assembling a high performance team of well-trained remote employees is another way you can increase productivity while maintaining quality. A high performance team can be used in many areas of a company. The tasks for the team could be as simple as sending out a high volume of mailers, or as extensive as creating a new software to help with cancer research. What would you accomplish with a high performance team
Module 1 :
Remote Workforce
As a society, we have had major advances in technology over the past 30 years. Technology helps make tasks easier and more efficient. As we advance in technology, we are also advancing other areas of our lives. No longer is it mandatory for a company to have a ridged work week schedule. Allowing flexible schedules and remote employees increases productivity in a company, and employee morale. Let’s explore what a remote workforce is
Module 2 :
High Performance Teams
High performance teams are a newer concept. There are a lot of different ways a high performance team of remote employees could benefit a company. In the following section, we will discuss what a high performance team is. We will discuss the benefits of having a high performance team. Also, we will talk about how to lead a high performance team, and how to understand the dynamic of a high performance team. Let’s explore this concept together!
Module 3 :
Characteristics of High Performance Teams
There are many different characteristics for high performance teams. We could list different characteristics for days! In this section, we will discuss the four main characteristics of high performance teams. The characteristics are excellent communication, being goal-oriented, flexibility, and being committed
Module 4 :
How to Create Teamwork
You can’t throw a bunch of puzzle pieces on the table and expect them to automatically fit together to create the picture. You have to move the pieces around and make sure they fit. Assembling a team is very similar. You have to create teamwork, and make those puzzle pieces form the desired picture.
Module 5 :
Types of Communication
As we have already said, communication is a huge asset with teams of any kind. With proper communication, you have a well-oiled machine that does its job efficiently. Without proper communication, you have a train wreck! In this module, we will discuss the different types of communication as it relates to High performance, virtual teams.
Module 6 :
Training Your Team
Training your virtual team is a little different from training your regular employees. Because these employees can span the continents, it’s not practical for employees to meet in one place for training. We will discuss in this section the different ways you can train your remote employees.
Module 7 :
Managing the Team
Once you have your high performance team of remote workers together, it’s time to concentrate on managing that team. There are multiple ways that you can manage your team. In this section, we will discuss tracking your team’s performance. We will also discuss counseling your employees, and positive recognition for team members.
Module 8 :
Effective Team Meeting How-to
In any team, team meetings are important, especially when you have a remote workforce. Running an effective team meeting is a skill every manager needs to master. In this module, we will go over some tactics you can use to have an effective team meeting
Module 9 :
Keep Happy and Motivated High Performance Team
Your team’s job is to complete the tasks they are assigned in an efficient way, while maintaining good quality standards. Your job is to make sure your team stays happy and motivated to accomplish those goals. Keeping your team happy and motivated is not hard to do if you know what to look out for. You don’t have to be in the same room with your team to keep them engaged.
Module 10 :
“Don’ts” with High Performance Teams
We have talked a lot about what you should do with your high performance team of remote workers, but now we will discuss what not to do. In this module, we will discuss just a few of the major “don’ts” for your high performance team.
Conclusion :
Wrapping Up
Although this workshop is coming to a close, we hope that you have learned a little bit more about high performance team with remote workforce employees. High performance teams are an asset to many companies! Please take a moment to review and update your action plan. This will be a key tool to guide your progress in the days, weeks, months, and years to come. We wish you the best of luck on the rest of your travels