Webinar: Managing Hybrid Teams

Nick Thomas & Associates will be hosting this session and will focus on the challenges faced managing hybrid teams and how best to tackle these.

Leading hybrid teams requires greater emphasis on building trust and confidence, communication, performance management, and effective use of technology. A Team Leader needs to understand what makes remote teams different and how to apply best practice in ‘leading from a distance’.

Remote teams need to feel trusted, inspired and motivated to deliver high performance without the feeling that their Team Leader is ‘checking up’ on all the time.

Team Leaders attending this course will walk away feeling inspired to put the appropriate actions into place to support their remote team, making them feel trusted and valued and supporting performance

Content & Learning

• The common challenges of managing a hybrid team – managing mixed experience and motivation levels
• Effective leadership actions to overcome challenges
• Define Trust, explore effective ways to stay in REACH with teams avoiding over-bearing check ups, or out of sight, out of mind thinking. REACH - Responsiveness, Empathy, Accountability, Connection, Help
• Verbal and written communication channels - explore benefits and disadvantages to create best practise based on importance, urgency and needs
• Effective steps for planning and facilitating a virtual team meeting to engage team members
• Explore creative virtual tools that can be used to enhance meetings effectiveness.

Learning Objectives

• Explore the common challenges of managing a hybrid team
• Understand the heightened significance of Trust in hybrid relationships and identify ways to stay in REACH, and build strong trust-based relationships
• Recognise the advantages and disadvantages of a variety of communication channels in order to choose the most effective channel, based on importance, urgency and needs
• Learn how to facilitate virtual team meetings, which engage all team members