How to Manage & Influence Your Virtual Team
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Try Udemy for Business- Manage a team that works from home
- Improve communication and collaboration with your virtual team
- Build trust with your team members
- Have more effective virtual meetings
- Increase accountability and engagement among the team
- Understand how to choose the right technology tools for effective collaboration
- Know exactly how to assign tasks to your team members to get things done
- Interest in managing virtual teams more effectively
**June 2020 Update: Due to the coronavirus outbreak, managers are now forced to lead their remote employees as they work from home. This course will give you the tools & tactics you need to manage and lead your remote workers during this time.**
** Over 16,000+ managers have taken this course with successful results**
Start managing your virtual team more effectively today.
This course is packed with step-by-step tactics that help you discover the psychological secrets of persuasion & communication that influence your virtual team members to do what you want them to do.
You'll also build trust and accountability without wasting time on useless technology tools, frustrating meetings or countless back & forth emails.
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Virtual teams are the future
If you manage a virtual team today, then you'll probably continue to do so for the rest of your career.
If you don't, then you probably will soon.
Learning how to manage people you don't see face-to-face is an important skill that you need regardless of what industry you're in. The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has also accelerated the need for managing people who work from home, as telecommuting became the norm.
With "How to Manage & Influence Your Virtual Team" you will learn the psychological secrets of persuasion and communication that influence your virtual team members to do what you need them to do.
The course will also help you increase the level of trust and accountability among your team members while reducing the time you spend on frustrating meetings, useless technology tools, and back-and-forth emails.
At the end of each lecture in the course, you'll get specific, actionable steps that you can implement immediately.
In addition, you'll also get downloadable sample scripts and templates that you can simply copy & paste and use with your own virtual team.
The course contains the following sections:
The Psychology of Communication in Virtual Teams: Psychological strategies to effectively communicate with your team and reduce ambiguity and miscommunication
Principles of Behavior Change: Four strategic principles that will change your team's behavior to get things done
Tactics of Influence & Persuasion: Step-by-step tactics that influence your team members to do what you need them to do
Managing Virtual Meetings Effectively: How to have fewer meetings while increasing their effectiveness at the same time
Choosing and Evaluating the Right Technology: A simple framework to choose and evaluate the right technology tools to use with your virtual teams
Building Trust in Virtual Environments: A methodical blueprint to increase the level of trust among your virtual team
Killer Email and Phone Techniques: Powerful email and phone techniques that you can use to influence your virtual team members
What is different about this course?
There are many courses on managing virtual teams. Here are three reasons why this one is different
Reason #1: Tactics, not just strategies
Most courses about virtual teams focus on high-level strategies and theories.
Very few actually give you the tactics that you need to implement those strategies.
In this course, I'll show you how to apply the management tactics to your own situation. You'll get step-by-step techniques and scripts that will save you a lot of time in managing your virtual team.
In other words, you will get answers to both those questions:
-What do I need to do?
-How do I do it?
Moreover, every video also has a “Summary of Actions" slide at the end that summarizes the course lecture for you, and tells you exactly what you need to do as a next step. Basically, you'll learn everything about virtual team management in simple steps.
Reason #2: Proven Science-based Research
For the course, I did a ton of science-based research about powerful psychological and productivity studies in the areas of influence and management.
Some of the research references include studies from the Harvard Business School, Kelley School of Business, and McKinsey Global Institute.
I also reference studies from international bestselling books such as “Influence: The Science of Persuasion," “Made to Stick," and “The Tipping Point," among others.
I've tested the findings from those references myself and selected what works and what doesn't in virtual teams.
So you will get the absolute best of the best concepts that work for you and your team.
Reason #3: Practical insights that work (not just theory)
I've been managing virtual teams for over 15 years, both as an entrepreneur and as a program manager.
In fact, I still work as a remote leader, and my full-time job is to manage virtual teams across the world to deliver highly complex projects (note: I work for Cisco Systems, but all views are my own and not those of Cisco).
Unlike most courses that are taught by professors who have studied this space from a purely theoretical view, you'll be getting a unique perspective on how to manage people remotely from someone who does this for a living.
In short, the course will help you:
Communicate more effectively and build trust with your team
Stop worrying about being caught up in pointless day-to-day details
Save valuable time spent on useless meetings and back & forth emails
Choose the right technology tools and techniques for effective team collaboration
Influence your team to be accountable for getting tasks accomplished
NOTE for Project Management Professional (PMP) certification holders
This course qualifies for 3 Professional Development Units (PDUs) under the Project Management Institute's (PMI's) "Education" requirement. After you're done with the course, you will get a "Certificate of Completion" from Udemy, which you can use as evidence for PMI. All 3 hours can be claimed under the "Leadership" category.
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Student Testimonials:
★★★★★ "I've been managing virtual teams for three years and still found some great gems in this course! I especially liked the first three modules (Communication, Behavior Change, and Persuasion) as well as the Trust module. They added some theory and words to tactics that I'd been using in the past, and condensed some useful tips into easy actions - like the trust formula and the "good" way to answer a question." - Nina Wroniak
★★★★★ "I'm doing my MBA online, and although group projects feature prominently, the university gave no guidance on how to conduct virtual teamwork. I'm really glad to have taken Hassan's course, and have recommended it to other students in my program to make our group work more productive. " - Astrid Tiefholz
★★★★★ "This course was great because it really explained the evidence behind the tips he was giving. Each section was developed in a clear way and a clear connection to the larger goal. I am excited to implement the things I’ve learned on the team I work with." - Joy Anderson
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In this welcome video, I give you a quick overview of what the course is about.
In this course overview lecture, I discuss:
- What the course objectives are and what you're going to learn
- Who the course is for
- What is included in the course
- An overview of the course outline and a description of each section
In this lecture, I discuss the following:
- The main challenge of virtual teams
- The team proximity spectrum
- The pyramid of communication
- How to increase intimacy and cohesion among your team members
In this lecture, I discuss an overview of the "Principles of Behavior Change" module, the 4 power principles of behavior change, and what you should know about those principles when managing your virtual team.
In this lecture, I discuss the following:
- Parkinson's law and why we procrastinate
- The positive effects of setting deadlines with your remote team
- The 3 rules for setting deadlines
In this lecture, I discuss Ellen Langer’s Xerox Study and the influential power of the word "because."
In this lecture, I discuss an overview of the "Managing Virtual Meetings" module, and talk about the two major problems with meetings in virtual environments.
In this lecture, I discuss a list of 40+ technology tools that you can choose from to use with your remote workers – categorized under 10 different functions:
- Collaboration Tools
- Project Management Tools
- Document Storage/ File Sharing Tools
- Meeting Tools
- High-End Video Conferencing Tools
- Video & Audio Conferencing Tools
- Instant Messaging Tools
- Document Co-creation Tools
- Social Network Tools
- Scheduling Tools
I also include a downloadable list (in pdf format) with links to all those tools for easy reference.
In this lecture, I discuss an overview of the "Email and Phone Techniques" module, the talk about the shocking amount of time we spend on email.
In this lecture, I discuss 5 strategies that help you manage your own email load when communicating with your virtual team.