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Team Training page. Here you will find information about our
workshops training designed to improve the long-term performance
and productivity of multicultural, geographically dispersed teams.
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Title:
"Teaming
Across Time Zones" —
Workshop Options for Global Team Members
Research shows that about 50%
of global teams fail to attain their goals. Team efforts linking
people in developing and
developed countries have a higher failure rate than those linking
people in two
or more developed countries. Some failing teams disband entirely,
while others limp along, their
business objectives forever beyond their grasp. Research and
GlobalWorkshop.com's own experience clearly indicate that the reason
for global team failure is directly related to the difficulties of
building trusting, positive relationships across the boundaries of
geography, time zones, and cultural differences. Research and
experience also show that e-mail and other electronic means of
communication, which people think will bridge those boundaries,
actually are fraught with complications.
Objectives:
Under this general title,
GlobalWorkshop.com customizes training events for intact global or
"virtual" teams, preferably soon after the team is
initially formed. All global teams face similar challenges. The
objectives that follow capture these essential challenges, most of
which have to do with the quality of personal relationships among
team members. Each global team also has its unique features and
issues, which are accounted for during the customization process.
GlobalWorkshop’s general objectives are. . .
- to build a team in which
"task orientation" is equally balanced with
"relationship orientation"
- to plan for regular of task-
and relationship-promoting communications among all team members
- to understand, and take
steps to avoid, the pitfalls of e-mail and other electronic
communications
- to work toward a
cross-cultural "Third Way" of handling the various
features of task completion
- to enable the team’s
leadership to be optimally informed, skillful, and effective
Duration:
Two days. For this workshop to
enjoy optimal success, it needs to occur on two full days separated
by two or three intervening days during which all team members are
engaged in a variety of professional tasks
and activities. Good arrangements include (1) workshops on Monday
and Friday, (2) workshops on Tuesday and Friday, or (3) workshops on
Monday and Thursday.
The purpose of arranging the
intervening days of professional meetings and work is so that team
members have ample opportunity
to apply, in face-to-face contact with each other, the
"work-relationship guidelines" they jointly develop at the
end of the first workshop day (see Agenda below). The second day
begins with a debrief of professional interactions during the
intervening days, and a collaborative refinement of the
"work-relationship guidelines."
Coach’s
Qualifications:
- senior group facilitator of
a wide range of programs with years of successful corporate
experience
- high familiarity with global
team challenges and their cross-cultural implications for practice
- experience-based expertise
in helping working groups build relationships in a workshop setting
- familiarity with concepts
and challenges facing the trainees (engineering, finance, marketing,
etc.)
Agenda:
The following two-day workshop
outline is the beginning point for a discussion with the team
leader, team sponsor, and/or other senior managers about the actual
program that GlobalWorkshop.com will develop for their specific
global team.
Workshop Day One (Monday or
Tuesday)
Section 1: Our Common Pursuit
of Success
Section 2: Our Mission and Our
Method
Section 3: A Framework for
Cultural Understanding
Section 4: Success Factors for
Global Teams
Section 5: Work-Relationship
Guideline Development
Workshop Day Two (Thursday or
Friday)
Section 6: Work-Relationship
Guideline Refinement
Section 7: Interpreting &
Behaving
Section 8: Communication
Skill-Building
Section 9: Electronic
Communication Protocols
Section 10: Team S.W.O.T.
Analysis
Section 11: Opportunity
Mapping
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