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Are your leaders now managing a virtual team? They may be:
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- Worried about leading their team remotely, when this is new to everyone
- Unsure how to maintain effective collaboration and communication when everyone is working remotely – often for the first time
- Wondering how to be sure people are OK and on track.
This online training workshop will build the skills and confidence that ‘Remote-Ready’ leaders need. Leaders will learn to bring the virtual team along and support team members to be productive while changing the way they work.
Tailored virtual workshop on managing remote teams – for clients in Melbourne – Sydney – Brisbane – Adelaide – Perth – Hobart – Darwin – Canberra – all regional areas – Asia – and anywhere else
Audience
This virtual team management training program is designed for people who manage a remote team.
Outcomes
In this leading remote teams training program you learn how to:
- Agree expectations with team members for this new way of working
- Create a sense of community and continuity through team routines and commitments
- Manage performance and workloads remotely
- Run engaging team meetings using Zoom or other technology to ensure productive collaboration
- Support team members through this challenging time of change and isolation so that they can be productive
In this Managing Virtual Teams training workshop, participants create their personal ‘Remote Ready Leadership Playbook’. This playbook consists of:
- Tailored strategies to manage their virtual team
- Practical steps to immediately implement the strategy with the team.
Delivered in-house at your premises or in an online virtual classroom
We deliver our training programs either through:
- Face-to-face workshops at your offices – in line with restrictions on people gatherings in your state.
- Impactful live online workshops.
All our facilitators are certified in COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Training by the Australian Department of Health. Therefore, you can rest assured we will deliver safe face-to-face workshops in collaboration with you.
Tailored virtual management course
As this workshop is aimed at people managing other people remotely, we recommend facilitating the program via a virtual workshop environment, which will allow the facilitator to role model effective online behaviours.
We deliver the virtual workshop via Zoom or any video conferencing system your organisation prefers.
Tailoring
We will tailor this virtual team management workshop to your team’s situation and your organisation.
Duration
Typical duration: two sessions of 1.5 hours delivered over two successive weeks.
Content
Leading the virtual team
- Setting direction for the virtual team.
- Agreeing on expectations with the remote team:
- outcomes
- milestones
- routines
- commitments
- checking-in.
- Maintaining community and connection:
- collaboration tools
- team rituals.
Leading individuals
- Managing individual performance:
- agreeing expectations
- providing encouragement and feedback.
- Creating a sense of safety and building trust.
- Supporting and coaching your staff to work remotely – skills and tools.
Leadership presence
- How to run engaging team meetings using online platforms to ensure productive collaboration.
- Finalise your Remote Ready Leadership Playbook.
Brief workshop overview and tips to manage a virtual team
Watch this video from one of our facilitators Justine Coleman. She gives practical tips for managing a virtual team and explains the content of the Leading Remote Teams training workshop.
Virtual Remote Leadership training workshop for individuals
We offer this program in one 3-hour session (February and August) or two 1.5-hour sessions in successive weeks (May and November). You can attend this program from anywhere: your workstation or from home.
Duration
One 3 hour session: 9.30am to 12.30pm or
Two 1.5 hour sessions: 10.30am to 12pm
** AEDT – daylight savings applies until 4 April 2021
[ACT, NSW, SA, VIC and TAS – please check your local time]
Dates
- Thursday 18 February 2021 (AEDT)
- Wednesday 19 and 26 May 2021 (AEST)
- Thursday 5 August 2021 (AEST)
- Wednesday 3 and 10 November 2021 (AEDT)
Investment
$ 295 + GST
Small group sizes
We limit the group size to 8. This means the workshops are highly interactive and we’ll be able to focus on your personal challenges.
Includes
- Electronic editable participant manual – great for reference
- A PDF certificate
What you need
- A device with a camera – preferably a laptop or desktop
- Good internet access
- A quiet room.
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Leadership programs and Management course testimonials
I enjoyed the training. Justine had me very engaged and got us to proactively take part in activities. Can’t wait to implement what I have learnt. Thank you!!
Would like to really thank you Justine for your insight and time into opening our mindset into new avenues of leadership. Great program. Justine did a great job in the current environment (COVID19). Thank you again.
Justine was excellent – very engaging and also entertaining! Good mix of visuals, activities and “teaching”.
Brenda is very engaging and down to earth with a great appreciation of how people think and react. Good understanding of people “types” and needs and how to bring a team to appreciate its own value. Very practical and appropriate to our business. Very engaging and covered the issues pre-discussed. Brenda had good control of the team dynamic and opened up some communication issues and handling pressure situations.
During the course I had the opportunity to share the day-to-day challenges with Mechelle and get to learn many ways to cope when challenged. Learned many new things during the training and got involved in role plays.
Justine is a wonderful facilitator. Justine has great energy from start to finish. It raised awareness in supervisors of the need for them to be leaders.
Kylie was very knowledgeable and provided very valid information for life in general not just for leadership. I think it was very efficient and provided a lot of very valuable information that will be great to bring back to the workplace.
Mechelle was great, shared lots of experience and made sharing safe and comfortable. It was good as I have no management or leadership experience and have been brought into this role to help a team with poor culture and morale problems. It allowed me to observe and learn about specific ways to approach, observe and manage in the best possible manner.
I’m really enjoying breaking out into smaller rooms to discuss scenarios and questions with different people. It makes the session very worthwhile and you feel less awkward contributing in the big group too. I’ve also taken some great things away to focus on for myself and activities to do with my team. Really enjoyed the session and learnt heaps!
I really enjoyed this course and feel as though I have gained some useful techniques I can implement into my development and the overall business development where I work. I would highly recommend.
Thank you very much for a fantastic and very interactive 2-day course! I feel I have gained valuable knowledge and great feedback from the facilitator and the group. I will be able to put in place many of the strategies/advice/examples I experienced over the 2 days. Mechelle has a great knowledge base, friendly and very engaging. Gave everyone in the group an opportunity to be involved.
Maggie is an enjoyable and experienced facilitator who brings the best out of the participant. This is an exceptional course that really pushes you outside your comfort zone.
Mark is an engaging educator who instils confidence in those he teaches. His confidence in the course and what he is saying make the course more enjoyable and sinks into the memory bank a lot easier! Kudos!
The course was really interesting and relatable to my current work situation. I would definitely recommend the course, very practical. Mark had relevant knowledge and examples.
I would recommend this course as a fantastic application of Leadership skills and ideas.
Renee was superb. I would highly recommend this course. Renee is a fantastic trainer and presented information in an easily manageable and understandable format.
Mark is an excellent presenter, gave good examples and managed to keep everyone engaged throughout the training sessions. Was great to be able to do face to face training (via Zoom) even though we are so restricted by Covid at present.
The content was presented in a way that was appealing to a variety of learning styles. Renee was a great facilitator, very engaging, energetic, referred often to sources and references. Renee read the room really well and delivered the content accordingly – a great mix of presenting styles used (audio, visual, group, self-reflecting).
Two half days well spent! In a short amount of time I have acquired some important tools to improve my team’s performance and my feedback to them. Excellent and quick understanding of our context.
People skills are very important in my position and this has helped greatly. Very thorough and skillful. Gave great examples that I could relate to. Made sense the way the day was organised. Very beneficial, took a lot out of it. Highly recommended.
I really enjoyed the workshop – it made me think differently and how I can use different strategies to improve my management/leadership. Thanks Mark.
Renee was a great facilitator and the content was new and very useful. I can implement these models in day to day operations. Renee has a great ability to breakdown complex models with common examples.
Renee was very engaging, knowledgeable, well spoken, very presentable. Facilitator/room interaction was enjoyable and insightful. It was great! One of the best workshops I’ve participated in!
Renee!! She was fabulous, brilliant with her training. Loved every bit of the training, which added so much value altogether.
First class. Great day and relevant for the future. Mark gave a precise, informative, beneficial and entertaining presentation.
A walking/talking Wikipedia and so well presented, great role plays and interaction. Great course, facilitator, well run, super informative with a very comprehensive coverage.
Mechelle was excellent! She made the course fun and was really engaging - she built a great rapport with our group. Skills we learnt were extremely practical and we could all relate to the content. I now have plan I can put into place. I also liked that it was clear and we could all relate to the content. I really loved the course and I hope to apply the learnings in my career.
I am going out with a wealth of knowledge from this workshop.
Amazing facilitator. Have had many great ideas come to mind after hearing her experience.
On behalf of Rinnai, I would like to say a big thank you to ICML and Mark on the delivery of a professional “Essential Leadership Skills” program. It well exceeded the expectations of all participants. The overall feedback was excellent. The program content was very relevant and very interactive. Mark was thorough, knowledgeable, approachable, funny and very engaging in his delivery. We will not hesitate to use your organisation for any future training programs that we roll out at Rinnai. Well done!
The program reaffirmed my skills and the facilitation was engaging, entertaining and knowledgeable. Lynne was a fabulous, engaging presenter.
Excellent content that was really relevant to my role and my future as a leader/manager. Really interested in using the skill/will model and applying GROW and also improving and increasing coaching.
Exceeded my expectations, was very applicable to my work-life and the sharing of examples and working with others was beneficial. Maggie was extremely courteous and knowledgeable and explained topics clearly.
A great session to quickly upskill key staff. The participants were motivated, as they absorbed the content and were excited to practise their new skills. It was a great refresher on communication and leadership.
Great stuff to hear real life experiences and referencing from a diverse range of sources. Loved the day, was awesome.
The course was engaging and informative delivered with passion and professionalism. Very beneficial to all leadership job roles, as well as personal leadership roles.
Mechelle was great and kept us engaged over the two days. The course info was relevant and something I could use each day at work. Good to have a booklet to refer to in the future. Really engaging and relevant to me. Included delegation which everyone wanted to improve.
Dana was a pleasure to listen to. She communicated the content of the workshop brilliantly and got us involved in discussion. She facilitated this workshop confidently and kept us engaged.
Mark is an excellent presenter. Exceptional knowledge and a great teacher that uses great examples to demonstrate a point. Overall fantastic course.
Very interactive – hands on which is what I loved. Not at all text book.
Mark is engaging and a great communicator. The program provided lots of practical examples and simple yet effective tools.
Martin was great, very concise, knowledgeable and experienced. Really good scenarios and perspectives. Friendly, open and engaging. Thanks Martin! Great session!
The workshop was very informative and great examples of application that are relatable in my work life. Lynne is a delight to spend the day with. Lynne is very passionate and experienced: I had an entertaining and enjoyable day.
Renee was really great! Very informative, really relevant material. Was sad to finish the course.
The program covered information, skills and competencies that are very relevant to me professionally. Rob was excellent. Engaging. Knowledgeable. Likeable. Adaptable. He’s an engaging coach and trainer. I’m very grateful to have had this experience.
Renee was amazing! Great knowledge and great presentation! I learnt so much. I would recommend the workshop, particularly for new managers and upcoming managers.
Lynne is really experienced, charming and has a great knowledge. Super recommended, fun to do!! Great learning.
Martin adapted to the team exceedingly well and tailored the presentation ‘on the fly’. Is that not a testament to a ‘communication skills’ facilitator?
A lot of the information was not new to me, however it was presented in a way that refreshed previous knowledge and prompted fresh introspective. I think the live online format works well, people are more comfortable to contribute online.
Renee is a fantastic speaker and great at conveying her message in an easily understandable way. The course exceeded expectation! Entertaining and super informative.
Since 2012 when we started working with ICML, they have consistently delivered exceptional leadership and business development training for our leaders and consultants at all levels. ICML have demonstrated from the beginning that they understand our business and tailor their programs to suit our goals and values. Through building our leadership capability, ICML have certainly contributed to Intrax’s remarkable growth. We enjoy working with ICML for their outstanding facilitators, tailored, enjoyable and practical workshops, customer service and meticulous organisation.
Justine was great I found her super engaging. She provided really good examples of ways to implement what we are learning in the workshop which I thought was of huge value.
I have a diploma in management and wasn’t sure if this course would be worth participating in. I was extremely happy to find the course beneficial. Renee’s coaching and commitment to making sure everyone in the course understood the concepts was fantastic.
Excellent – delivered content with ease, kept us captivated and threw in some humour for giggles – thoroughly enjoyed the course. I’ve been taught new skills to adapt my management style. Mark’s content was exceptional and kept us enthralled and he’s a funny guy too.
Highly recommend ICML for personalised and personable training needs. The course was impactful, effective and provided action points for all members to take away and improve upon. Great investment!
I would (and intend to) recommend this course. I feel better prepared in managing my team and am looking forward to making use of the skills and techniques I am now aware of.
I found the course timely, informative and completely relative. All facets discussed and covered were beneficial and Renee was fantastic. Thank you!
Justine was very engaging and relevant. Great program with a friendly and understanding leader.
Great facilitator, very easy to understand and a great person to learn from. These training days have been extremely beneficial and have helped me to grow.
I really enjoyed the 90 min sessions - made it easier to focus knowing we only have a short time. I really thought it worked well, I loved the breakout rooms. It made it feel just like a normal in-house session.
Renee has a very down to earth approach and is an engaging presenter. Very useful strategies, ideas and information to take away and use straight away. Lots of valuable tools and cohesive approach.
I found this course to be more than informative. The information on the day and the course material was amazing. I feel more motivated to get back to work and slowly implement everything I’ve learnt. Renee was awesome. Thank you!
This program offered our people the opportunity to explore their potential in leadership skills, to inspire greater contribution to our organisation as well as their career and self-development. I intend to reinforce the types of leadership skills with my team. It has been an absolute pleasure working with Brenda right from the very beginning with planning for this program, our on-going interactions and the experience on the day of the workshop. Brenda exhibits effective facilitation skills and effective connection with every participant to allow for a supportive and comfortable learning environment.
The program went above and beyond my expectations – all learnings will apply to both my professional and personal life. It was practical with plenty of day-to-day situations used as examples. Great engagement and direction and Suzanne kept everyone interested. I was able to work on some of my weaknesses whilst building up my strengths to improve my management and communication style. Thank you!
I would highly recommend this course to other potential leaders. This course content is relevant and eye opening and the facilitator is very informed, experienced and hands on. My company’s money has been well spent!
The program provided tools to deal with relationships within the office, how we can achieve standards. Lynne didn’t drop a beat the whole time: engagement was excellent.
Maggie was fantastic, knowledgeable, informed and equipped with examples and research.
Mechelle was very engaging and was very skilled in managing a group made up of very different people. I had participant in some leadership training previously. This training allowed me to learn new skills and practice and further developing my existing skills. Mechelle tailored her approach effortlessly to meet the needs of the group.
Maggie was fantastic! Really informative, knowledgeable and provided a very supportive environment. An open environment to speak freely with colleagues. Some really great insights into communication styles and tactics.
Mechelle has been an absolutely amazing and engaging facilitator. She inspires me to come back for more learning. Course conducted really well and precise. Good course material too! Very beneficial as it is going to help me with my future role.
The course was insightful and will provide many useful techniques to assist with coaching my team.
Having done many of these types of courses over the years – Marks approach was like a whiff of fresh air. Thanks Mark. The interaction and delivery was first class – I love to hear the variables and new ideas that will help my performance.
Really enjoyed this course, found it to be very timely now that I am stepping into a role as a leader, I appreciate the company investing in my development. The course was a lot of fun. Maggie was warm and genuine in her delivery style. The course helped me to identify ways to deal with current situations with the team and has given me confidence to deliver. Would recommend to colleagues in the business as I thing it is always good to have a refresher.
Would recommend for any potential leaders! Great structure, provided clarity of what I’m in for.
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