Virtual Team Building and Management Modules

In this course, you will get 12 Modules which are describing all aspects greatly

•  Module One: Getting Started

1. Workshop Objectives
2. Pre-Assignment

• Module Two: Setting Up Your Virtual Team (I)

1. Choose Self-Motivated People with Initiative
2. Face to Face Meetings at First (Kick-off Meeting)
3. Diversity Will Add Value
4. Case Study

• Module Three: Setting Up Your Virtual Team (II)

1. Personality Can Count as Much as Skills
2. Rules of Engagement
3. Setting up Ground Rules
4. Icebreakers and Introductions
5. Case Study

• Module Four: Virtual Team Meetings

1. Scheduling Will Always Be an Issue
2. Have a Clear Objective and Agenda
3. Request Additional Topics in Advance
4. Discourage Just Being a Status Report
5. Case Study

• Module Five: Communication (I)

1. Early and Often
2. Rules of Responsiveness
3. Face to Face When Possible
4. Choose the Best Tool
5. Case Study

• Module Six: Communication (II)

1. Be Honest and Clear
2. Stay in Constant Contact
3. Don’t Make Assumptions
4. Set Up Email Protocols
5. Case Study

• Module Seven: Building Trust

1. Trust Your Team and They Will Trust You
2. BBeware of “Us vs. Them” Territorial Issues
3. Share Best Practices
4. Create a Sense of Ownership
5. Case Study

• Module Eight: Cultural Issues

1. Respect and Embrace Differences
2. Be Aware of Different Work Styles
3. Know Your Team Members Cultural Background
4. Dealing with Stereotypes
5. Case Study

• Module Nine: To Succeed With A Virtual Team

1. Set Clear Goals
2. Create Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
3. Build a Team Culture
4. Provide Timely Feedback
5. Case Study

• Module Ten: Dealing With Poor Team Players

1. Manage Their Results, Not Their Activitiest
2. Stay Proactive, Not Reactive
3. Check In Often
4. Remove Them
5. Case Study

• Module Eleven: Choosing The Right Tools

1. Communication Software
2. Collaboration and Sharing Tools
3. Project Management Software
4. Use What Works for You and Your Team
5. Case Study

• Module Twelve: Wrapping Up

Be Creative with Quizes

Each Module is finishing with its quiz & hence you will get to review your Modules in the form of 100 questions.

• Module Two Review Questions

1. What is one characteristic of being self-motivated?
2. A self-motivated person usually does what?
3. What is one advantage of having an in-person kick-off meeting?
4. Which of the following is one to hold an employee kick-off meeting if it can’t be done in-person?
5. What is one benefit of having a diverse virtual team?
6. Teams are diverse because ___________________.
7. What is one reason technology is so important on a virtual team?
8. Which of the following is a form of using technology to communicate?
9. What hesitation did Janet have when creating her virtual team?
10. What is one way Janet searched for new team employees?

• Module Three Review Questions

1. Personality traits speak _________________ than skills alone.
2. Which of the following is considered a negative personality type
3. Which of the following could be considered a rule of engagement?
4. What is one example of a rule of engagement flow plan?
5. Setting up ground rules helps prevent what?
6. Which of the following could be an aspect of ground rules?
7. Introductions are important to a virtual team because why?
8. Which of the following could be considered, and icebreaker topic?
9. What is one thing Alex asked everyone to share with the team?
10. What is one of the ground rules Alex shared with the team?

• Module Four Review Questions

1. What is one problem for scheduling a meeting with a virtual team?
2. What is one way a manager can keep track of employee schedules?
3. How can managers ensure that employees are aware of the meeting agenda ahead of time?
4. What is important that employees know about each meeting?
5. Why is it important to share meeting topics ahead of time?
6. When employees have a chance to add topics to a meeting, they feel they are what?
7. When the moderator of the meeting does all of the talking, employees can feel ____________.
8. Meetings should be a time of group discussion, not ___________________________.
9. What is one complication Polly had with her first virtual team meeting?
10. What was the last thing Polly wanted her employees to do before leaving the meeting?

• Module Five Review Questions

1. Early communication helps prevent what?
2. What is one way to establish early communication with employees?
3. When creating rules of responsiveness, the manager must first decide what?
4. When sending information, the manager must include what to the employee?
5. When people communicate face to face, they can do what?
6. Face to face communication is necessary when __________________________.
7. One tool to use for informal communication is what?
8. One tool to use for formal communication is what?
9. When Zach sends update information, he requires his employees to follow up in ________.
10. What form of communication did Zach use when he assigned his employees their projects?

• Module Six Review Questions

1. When speaking with employees, do not _______________.
2. When a manager tries to hide information, this can make the employee do what?
3. Why is it important to stay in constant contact with employees?
4. What is one way to stay in constant contact with employees?
5. When managers assume employees have what they need, employees can feel what?
6. The managers must never assume what?
7. Email accounts can often be what?
8. When establishing an email protocol, it is important to outline what?
9. What part of the assignment was Bob having trouble with?
10. What is one way Allison stays in contact with her team members?

• Module Seven Review Questions

1. Virtual teams depend on _________ from their other members.
2. The feeling of trust in a virtual team should be what?
3. To avoid the “Us vs. Them” mentality, it helps to remind employees of what?
4. When a manager makes decisions without consulting the team, the employees can feel what?
5. What is the best practice?
6. When a manager decides to share best practices with employees, it shows what?
7. What is one way managers can encourage a sense of ownership in employees?
8. Employees, who have a sense of ownership are more likely to do what?
9. Why did Adam hold a meeting with the team members?
10. Adam wanted his team employees to feel what?

• Module Eight Review Questions

1. Employees learn to work as a team when they do what?
2. When employees embrace their differences, they are able to do what?
3. Since no two people are alike, the team will have ____________ work styles.
4. The key to working with different work styles is what?
5. On a virtual team, it can be difficult to know a person’s cultural background because why?
6. When we understand a person’s cultural background, it can help us do what?
7. A stereotype can cause people to do what?
8. How can an employee overcome a stereotype?
9. How did Cheryl gather the team members for a group conference?
10. What is one thing Cheryl did to help employees learn about each other’s culture?

• Module Nine Review Questions

1. The first step to setting a clear goal is to do what?
2. Setting goals can help the employee do what?
3. What is a Standard Operating Procedure?
4. Learning an SOP can be most beneficial for whom?
5. Building a team culture can make the team ________________.
6. What is the one-way team members can socialize when they cannot get together in person?
7. Timely feedback allows a manager to do what?
8. Timely feedback can be awkward if the manager does not do what?
9. What did Scott use his timely feedback methods for?
10. Scott checked in on his entire team at once by doing what?

• Module Ten Review Questions

1. An employee’s results do not always reflect their what?
2. What should the manager do if an employee reports with consistently poor results?
3. What does it mean to be proactive?
4. What does it mean to be reactive?
5. What is one method of check-in?
6. Why is checking in an important task on a virtual team?
7. Before an employee is removed from a team, the manager must do what?
8. Not removing the poor performing employee can affect whom?
9. How did Bridget choose to contact Shannon about her performance?
10. What did Bridget do to try and help Shannon’s performance problem?

• Module Eleven Review Questions

1. What is one example of communication software?
2. The use of communication software can differ based on what?
3. What is one example of a collaboration and sharing tool?
4. How does the collaboration and sharing tools benefit the whole team?
5. What is one aspect of project management software?
6. One disadvantage of having project management software is that ___________________.
7. Finding out what works for your team can take what?
8. Using what works for the manager and the team does not mean what?
9. How was Ira collaborating with her employees that proved ineffective?
10. What is one program Ira started using to manage her team projects better?

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