Management. Lift your career and your organisation.

With more businesses ‘offshoring’ work every day, successful business leaders need to master the art of virtual management. Whether you’re an entrepreneur seeking to build your new business, or a seasoned people manager tasked with leading a remote team, this course will set you up for success.

Aims

Learn key skills to overcome the challenges posed by: working across time zones or geographic distance; communicating across cultures; and managing performance without face-to-face contact. Discover how to set your team up for success by: applying cross-cultural communication skills; creating systems and procedures that make sense to remote workers; recruiting the right people to your virtual team; and overseeing work quality, productivity and motivation as a virtual manager. Build a dynamic team when you’re managing remote, offshore or virtual workers.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• adapt your leadership style to cater for cultural differences when managing across geographic regions
• design robust systems to boost the productivity of team members</