Leading Virtually
- 12 Courses | 5h 14m 28s
- 20 Books | 18h 42m
- 1 Audiobook | 21m 3s
Almost every team is comprised of virtual members. Learn how to lead virtual teams for optimal business outcomes.
COURSES INCLUDED
Welcome to the Skillsoft Leadership Development Program
Whether you are an aspiring, new, or experienced leader who leads people or projects, we've designed this curriculum to meet you where you are in your own leadership journey.
1 video |
4m
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Embrace Delegation as a Skill to Strengthen Remote Teams, powered by MIT SMR
The authors share details pertaining to the importance of good delegation skills and the habits that can help to build good delegation skills.
3 videos |
9m
Assessment
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Leading Virtually
Rarely will a modern organization be housed entirely under one roof, with all employees sitting together in co-located offices and workspaces. Today, your teams are just as likely to be scattered across countries, continents, languages, and cultures. Leading virtually requires skills and attitudes that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. This course will provide strategies and techniques for using modern collaboration technologies to leverage the benefits of virtual teams and overcome their inevitable challenges. You will learn how to: • Adapt and adjust your virtual leadership skills to better understand • Relate to virtual team members with widely ranging backgrounds and experiences • Virtually lead people with diverse talents, languages, and approaches
7 videos |
41m
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PMI PDU
Leading in a Hybrid Workplace
The days of showing up at the office or shopfloor 9-to-5, five days a week, ended for many of us long before the pandemic arrived. Covid accelerated a transformation in where and when we work that was already well underway. A team leader in the 21st century will need to prepare for the future of work by learning to lead hybrid teams, which include a mix of remote and onsite workers, often on different schedules. In this course, you'll learn about becoming a human-centered manager who can build a sense of community in a group of individuals separated by space and time. You'll see how inequities can arise in hybrid teams, and how to avoid them. You'll learn tools and techniques for improving collaboration among physically separated workers. Finally, you'll explore strategies for maintaining high productivity and performance on hybrid teams.
7 videos |
25m
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Managing a Hybrid Team Successfully
Ever-changing and uncertain times have moved many organizations away from traditional offices and toward hybrid work arrangements. Overcoming the challenges of working within a hybrid model involves facilitating a productive work environment for employees, with strong relationships despite being geographically dispersed. In this course, you'll learn about common hybrid work models and discover the tools and structures that hybrid workers need. You'll also learn what strategies support a positive hybrid team culture, and what methods will help you evaluate hybrid teams effectively.
6 videos |
26m
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Leadership Insights on Leading Virtually
What does it take to lead effectively in a virtual environment? Find out which traditional principles still apply and which new principles will make a difference in team effectiveness-no matter how geographically dispersed team members are.
18 videos |
48m
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MIT SMR: Hybrid Work: Surprising Lessons From Gen Z
What does Gen Z really want from hybrid work? This brief video shares advice for leaders on how to turn Gen Z's preferences into overall culture improvements.
11m
How Shifts in Remote Behavior Affect Employee Wellbeing, powered by MIT SMR
During the pandemic, many businesses had to make remote work a norm. The learning curve was steep, but it seemed to boost productivity, especially by cutting commute times. Soon, however, there was a subtle shift in work practices - the way employees collaborated, communicated, and managed their work. Those subtle changes had direct consequences on employee wellbeing. In this course, you'll learn about the shifts in different workplace behaviors due to remote work. You'll also explore the importance of personalizing workplace interventions based on each individual.
3 videos |
12m
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MIT SMR: IT in a Remote World: Surprises, Challenges, and Looking Ahead
When it comes to remote work, we're all in uncharted territory - and nobody knows that better than IT managers. In this on-demand webinar, Oksana Balytsky and James Sennett of LogMeIn and Dennis David of Agenda Consulting discuss how IT professionals are adapting and thriving despite the demands of the ongoing pandemic.
1 video |
59m
The Loneliness of the Hybrid Worker, powered by MIT SMR
Unprecedented levels of hybrid work seem to likely persist beyond the pandemic conditions. Even as offices have reopened, many employees are hesitant to give up the benefits of working from home at least some of the time. While working from home has multiple benefits, such as saving time, shedding the stress of commuting, and having more flexibility to balance work and personal life, it has some downsides too. For example, the nature, frequency, and quality of interactions change when colleagues are physically remote, leading to a less dynamic communication and lack of support from colleagues. Research suggests that lack of support from colleagues is the most significant factor in remote employees feeling lonely. This course helps you to understand the importance of colleague support and the ways in which managers can encourage a culture of support among colleagues.
3 videos |
11m
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Leadercamp on-demand: Empower Your Virtual Meeting
Lack of engagement in virtual meetings is still a major problem for many leaders. Making them more engaging without the need for additional technology is a useful skill to develop. Using techniques from the #1 Amazon Hot New Release, Engaging Virtual Meetings, author John Chen shows you the best key secrets that will have your attendees give you rave reviews at your next virtual meting. In this course, Chen will show you how to experience an immediate shift in your virtual attendees, increase engagement such as chatting, unmuting, and turning on their cameras, and have people look forward to your virtual meetings.
1 video |
57m
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Equity in the Hybrid Office, powered by MIT SMR
In this course, the authors explain the importance of creating equity in a hybrid workspace.
2 videos |
7m
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Skillsoft is providing you the opportunity to earn a digital badge upon successful completion on some of our courses, which can be shared on any social network or business platform.
Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.BOOKS INCLUDED
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Leading VirtuallyThis collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review shows you that with the right attention to technology, social needs, and work rhythms, virtual teams can perform as well as in-person teams.
26m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Three Elements for Successful Virtual WorkingThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how the lessons from the past - on how to acknowledge and balance the roles of technology, social needs, and work rhythms - are of crucial importance to us now.
5m
By Lynda Gratton
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Leading Remotely Requires New Communication StrategiesThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how it's crucial that leaders stay closely attuned to what employees need amid persistent pandemic stressors.
3m
By Adam Roseman
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Sustaining Employee Networks in the Virtual WorkplaceThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals how managers must act to keep connections positive and productive when a large-scale move to remote working diminishes organizational networks and strains relationships.
7m
By Daniel Z. Levin, Terri R. Kurtzberg
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on New Leadership Challenges for the Virtual World of WorkThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about how during the COVID-19 crisis, senior leaders must rethink key decision-making processes in order to enhance trust, transparency, and teamwork.
8m
By Alec Levenson, Patrick McLaughlin
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Create Belonging for Remote WorkersThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses the practical steps managers and colleagues can take to make their remote employees feel valuable and ingrained in company culture.
3m
By Liz Fosslien, Mollie West-Duffy
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Monitor Remote Workers - EthicallyThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that long-term remote work has necessitated questions about monitoring employee productivity. Is it possible to practice ethical surveillance?
5m
By Ben Laker, Charmi Patel, David Cobb, Will Godley
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Five Ways Leaders Can Support Remote WorkIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how the rapid shift to remote work has created new challenges for organizations, but survey data shows organizations around the world are experimenting with creative solutions.
13m
By Charles Sull, Donald Sull, Josh Bersin
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Help Employees Work From Home With KidsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how the family distraction presented by the new work-from-home reality is one of the most pressing management issues of the COVID-19 crisis.
6m
By Lynda Gratton
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Surprising Science Behind Successful Remote MeetingsThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review reveals that research-based insights can improve your remote meetings and keep participants engaged.
4m
By Steven G. Rogelberg
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on How to Sustain Your Organization's Culture When Everyone Is RemoteThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how the coronavirus pandemic's office exodus risks diminishing company culture unless leaders take action to support it.
7m
By Jennifer Howard-Grenville
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Newly Remote Workers Need Peer CoachingThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review discusses how peer coaching allows employees to help each other validate and activate their own knowledge, which helps reduce work stress and increase engagement.
3m
By Aaron Hurst
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Why Time Signals Still Matter When Working RemotelyThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about paying attention to the signals you're sending about time when managing remote workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
5m
By Elana Feldman, Melissa Mazmanian
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Cybersecurity for a Remote WorkforceIn this article from MIT Sloan Management Review, learn how organizations must act quickly to mitigate the cybersecurity risks created by a sudden shift to remote work.
4m
By Paul Meerts, Rico Brandenburg
Book
Projects Without Boundaries: Successfully Leading Teams and Managing Projects in a Virtual WorldHelping you build the team and lead them to achievement, this book goes beyond leadership theory to provide a powerful suite of best practices for building high-performance teams and consistently delivering successful project results in a virtual, distributed, and multicultural environment.
6h
By James M. Waddell, Russ J. Martinelli, Tim J. Rahschulte
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Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a DistanceHighly practical and easy to navigate, this groundbreaking book is a hands-on toolkit filled with down-to-earth examples and insights that can enhance the virtual team experience for everyone involved.
2h 34m
By Darleen M. DeRosa, Richard Lepsinger
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Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual TeamsWith diverse case studies and examples, this essential guide discusses how leading a virtual team requires a new set of skills and a facilitative leadership approach, and provides practical strategies, tools and solutions for the key issues involved in managing at a distance.
4h 24m
By Penny Pullan
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Interact and Engage!: 50+ Activities for Virtual Training, Meetings, and WebinarsContaining more than 50 activities ranging from openers and icebreakers to closers, this book will show you how to break the mold of static lecture-style online training that drives participants to multitask - or worse - tune out.
3h 21m
By Kassy Laborie, Tom Stone
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101 Leadership Actions for Creating and Managing Virtual TeamsWhatever your role, this what-to-do guide provides a wealth of new ideas for making your virtual team more effective. This up-to-the-minute book provides practical ideas for anyone getting started with virtual teams, or supporting or managing one.
33m
By Ollie Malone
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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Managing the New Tensions of Hybrid WorkLeaders are meeting employee demands for more flexible work arrangements amid concerns over the impact on organizational culture and innovation capability.
11m
By Jonathan Trevor, Matthias Holweg
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best Out of Virtual Work and Virtual TeamsVirtual Leadership explores the challenges associated with working remotely, and guides you on how to lead virtual teams. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
21m 3s
By Penny Pullan
SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Leading Your Team
Great teams don't come together by accident. Successful leaders know that putting together an efficient and effective team requires planning, forethought, honest assessment, and a little trial and error. And once you've put the team together, then comes the work of coaching, motivating, and managing them. In this Leading Your Team Unit benchmark, you'll have the opportunity to see where your team building, and team leading skills currently stand and learn where you can further develop and refine your abilities to lead your team to success. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
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