Leading Remote Teams
Through Influence
Building Relationships and Getting Results
Across Boundaries

Program Description

For some time, organizations have been in a state of rapid structural change. Virtual teams often spread across the globe, are commonplace. Building and supporting virtual teams of culturally diverse, high-performing individuals presents many new challenges to leaders. Global and virtual teams require the same skills and qualities to be high-performing as do co-located teams. They also require additional or alternative processes and leadership skills to be most effective.

When working with others remotely, you need to be especially skillful and flexible in the way you influence others. You need effective influence skills to help you build the relationships necessary to get positive results with others on your team and those with whom your team interacts, regardless of your positional power. Great influence skills moves your ideas into action by stimulating others to support, allow, provide resources for, or participate actively in your initiatives.

Leading Remote Teams Through Influence™ provides you with processes, techniques, and tools to create and maintain trusting, motivated, high-performing teams. You will learn and apply a set of powerful influence skills that will enhance your team leadership and membership capabilities. This program offers team leaders and members the skills to succeed, especially when working across boundaries of time, distance, and culture.

The influence behaviors and skills are drawn from Exercising Influence™, our popular influence training program, and tailored for the unique needs of those who lead remote teams.

Leading Remote Teams Through Influence is available virtually. For more info, see our page on Virtual Learning Journeys.

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Leading Remote Teams Through Influence™ is a copyrighted program of Barnes & Conti Associates, Inc.

Program Objectives

As a participant, you will be able to:

Learn about strategic and tactical models to develop effective influence approaches.
Develop skills for improving your leadership effectiveness through influence.
Apply an approach and practice skills that focus on key factors for high-performing co-located or virtual teams.
Demonstrate leader and member skills that lead to world-class team performance.
Target areas for further influence and team skills development.
Develop an action plan for applying what you have learned to improve your own and your team’s performance.