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Effective Virtual Working

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London £550 + VAT | Duration: 1 day

Dawn Whitehead, Learning & Development Policy and Contract Manager, Government Offices

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The importance of Effective Virtual Working: The last ten years have seen a rapid rise in the adoption of virtual and remote working among organisations of all types and sizes. In addition to increased productivity and reduced business costs, organisations also benefit from a more motivated workforce seeking a better work/life balance. With technological advances such as access to broadband, VoIP and changes in organisational culture facilitating this move, seemless remote working and communication with colleagues, suppliers and clients across the globe has never been easier.

The importance of Effective Virtual Working is designed to help you to communicate effectively as “teleworkers”, remote project team members and geographically dispersed employees. This one day course will focus on the challenges that remote and virtual working produce and provide solutions and suggestions on how best to overcome them.


Benefits of Effective Virtual Working

Effective Virtual Working will provide delegates with the tools to:

  • Develop practical strategies to counter the challenges of remote communication
  • Select the appropriate medium and communication style for each particular context
  • Communicate more effectively with colleagues based remotely
  • Understand the cultural drivers that create different communication styles


Who should attend Effective Virtual Working

This programme is aimed at professionals who:

  • Have a global function within their organisation
  • Regularly work as part of virtual project teams
  • Liaise with clients and colleagues based in overseas locations
  • Rely on email, telephone and video conferencing to communicate with international counterparts


Effective Virtual Working Course Content

  • Key definitions and concepts
  • Cross-cultural values and attitudes affecting virtual and remote working
  • Styles and perceptions: how we are perceived and how other cultures operate, strengths, weaknesses and opportunities
  • Varieties of remote communication
  • Practical challenges of virtual and remote working
  • Forming, managing and measuring virtual relationships
  • Matching task to technology
  • Keystone principles for effective remote and virtual working
  • Recommendations and best practice for gaining competitive advantage from effective virtual and remote working
  • Conclusions & action plan


Effective Virtual Working Trainer

Detailed below is the profile of a member of our Effective Virtual Working team.


RD

BSc Social Science
Lecturer and Tutor for MBA, MA and Doctoral programmes

RD is an intercultural trainer and management consultant with substantial international experience. He has lived and worked in the UK, US and Italy. He specialises in delivering business focused training to senior managers and runs programmes for groups of international managers.

His academic background is in economics, management, marketing, policy analysis, human resources and psychoanalysis.  He has a number of publications. While he has worked primarily in private sector, he began his career as a University Lecturer and Fellow and delivered Open University Business School MBA Programmes.

RD spent the 1980s in the UK and Italy working on various marketing communications, segmentation and product development projects for consulting groups, advertising agencies He also worked on government projects relating to the Channel Tunnel and the London War Plan, Education manpower planning and other HR programmes.

RD lived in the US between 1991 and 2001 where he was President of a Consulting Group working with blue chip clients to develop strategic marketing and brand development: clients included Land Rover, BMW, Citibank, ABC/ Disney, Best Western and many others.

RD has delivered Effective Virtual Working & Communication training courses to numerous Communicaid clients including Cadbury Schweppes, UBS, the London Business School, Allen & Overy and Adidas.

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04.05.10
London
1 day
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04.11.10
London
1 day
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