GLOBAL AND VIRTUAL LEADERS: INCREASING PERFORMANCE AND RELATIONSHIPS FOR VIRTUAL AND REMOTE TEAMS

Leadership experts challenge leaders to engage employees, carve out more face time, and employ strategies that seem impossible when your team is scattered around the world. This team structure and challenge is becoming increasingly popular with evolving technology. How can leaders increase the effectiveness of remote and global teams? There are several specifi c tasks and approaches that every leader should consider when managing and leading remote teams. Virtual connections must rely on specifi c tools, techniques, and skills to effectively build relationships and accomplish tasks. This workshop will give you these tools to transform your team’s virtual experience.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: This seminar is designed to support leadership effectiveness in managing remote and virtual teams.

At the end of this session, participants will be able to:

a) Examine how current leaders manage remote and global teams

b) Explore best practices

c) Explore the limitations and role of technology in leading remote teams

d) Examine cultural and other factors that impact virtual effectiveness

MODERATOR: Diana Wu, Test Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation

PANELISTS:

Lonney Gregory, Director, Learning Technology and Operations, Northrop Grumman Corporation;

Adrienne Williams, Systems Engineer Manager, Northrop Grumman Corporation;

Marc Tate, Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton