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Overview

Technology and has created the opportunity for teams to work together across vast distances. This type of team environment presents challenges in creating team chemistry, managing communications, guiding performance management and many other critical issues that impact productivity and getting results.

This webinar provides the best practices for maximizing productivity and performance in a remote team environment.

Why you should Attend

Managing a team is already a huge challenge, and when the team is remote it even more difficult to be effective.

Remote teams go through the normal stages of team development in a very different way. Managers need a revamped skill set to create a remote team.

Traditional approaches to motivating team members and holding them accountable for results do not work in a remote environment.

Areas Covered in the Session

  • Strategies for various remote team model
  • Establishing a framework for both formal and informal roles and responsibilities
  • Creating clear expectations and rules engagement
  • Managing the flow of communications
  • Developing a high performing remote team culture
  • Establishing conflict resolution guidelines
  • Using technology to assist with performance management

Who Will Benefit

  • Managers/Members of remote Teams

Speaker Profile

LeRoy Thompson is Managing Director Of Thompson & Associates. He is a Certified Virtual Presenter with expertise in the development and delivery of training programs on more than twenty distinct topics. He has worked with over 150 client organizations and trained over 47,000 participants over the course of his career.

His training programs, work sessions, conference presentations, and keynote speeches all receive rave reviews. He is a dynamic instructor, energetic facilitator, and insightful consultant. His delivery balances his depth of knowledge with an appropriate mix of warmth and humor.

LeRoy's work in the public sector has included training and organizational development projects for the U.S. departments of Education, Environmental Protection, Defense, Interior, Commerce, Treasury, Health And Human Services, Energy, Agriculture, Justice, NASA, the Michigan Department of Community Health, Mississippi Department of Mental Health, Ohio Department Of Public Welfare, Governor’s Office of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Riverside County (CA), Fairfax County (VA), and Sarasota County (FL). Private sector and not-for-profit organizations include Citigroup, BMW, Gannett, Corning Inc., Motorola, Lockheed Martin, Sallie Mae, Boys & Girls Clubs, United Way of America, and the American Press Institute.

Prior to founding Thompson & Associates, he was an Associate with McKinsey & Company in their Washington, DC office. He has been a Practice Leader with Kepner-Tregoe in the Worldwide Strategy practice as well as a Senior Consultant with Booz, Allen and Hamilton, specializing in change management projects with Federal agencies.

LeRoy was educated at Harvard University where he received a bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature and Language, and a master’s degree in Finance and International Business from Columbia University School of Business. His AMA-By-Satellite television broadcast of “Written Skills for Business Communications” received the ‘Best of Business Television’ Award. His book, “Mastering the Challenges of Change” received a Newberry Book Club award. His article “E Commerce-Changing the Rules of Strategy Implementation” was published by Strategy and Leadership magazine.