Overview:

Facilitating effective meetings with virtual teams takes a significant amount of preparation and leadership in order to ensure you accomplish objectives, every team member participates, and decisions can be made.

This webinar will provide participants with best practices for facilitating virtual team meetings including:

• Use of technology
• Enabling for participants to socialize
• Preparing agendas
• Setting roles and responsibilities
• Keeping participants engaged in the meeting
• Managing effective discussions, brainstorming and managing conflicts
• Problem solving in virtual meetings

Best practices for effective communication planning and tracking progress for between virtual team meetings will be shared to enable for ensuring team success.

Why should you attend: The ability to facilitate virtual team meetings is absolutely essential in a world where so many individuals work virtually/remotely. You can’t possibly get things done with your team - whether they are a project team, a workgroup or a department - if you are unable to facilitate meetings that accomplish the goals of the team.

Ineffective meetings cause a variety of issues for the team and the initiative or project on which they are working, including:

• Lack of understanding of roles and responsibilities
• Inability to accomplish goals
• Increased problems and conflicts on the team
• Lack of support for team members
• Throwing work "over the wall" without regard for quality
• Inability to accomplish goals

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Enabling for socialization in virtual teams
• Use of technology
• Developing effective agendas
• Using round robins and brainstorming
• Keeping participants engaged
• Assigning roles and responsibilities
• Resolving problems and managing conflicts in a virtual meeting
• Communication best practices
• Evaluating virtual team meetings

Who Will Benefit:

• Project managers
• Managers
• Leaders
• Business line managers
• Team leaders
• Program directors
• HR professionals
• Business analysts
• Anyone who manages virtual teams