The Summer Institute at Wallenberg Hall: Building Effective Virtual Teams: Tools, Techniques, Best Practices and 'Gotchas' for Creating and Leading Distributed Teams

What: Building Effective Virtual Teams: Tools, Techniques, Best Practices and Gotcha’s for Creating and Leading Distributed Teams

This intensive workshop features leading-edge research answers for companies and organizations using teams in multiple locations, especially off-shored or outsourced teams. New tools and methodologies as well as key research conclusions for what works and, importantly, what has been awkward, difficult or even disastrous will be covered. Participants will be expected to share their own approaches, results, and current concerns.

Day 1: How to Connect a team. A series of communication techniques and methods, building on two separate threads – increasingly powerful Immersive Systems, and “shared workspace” environments will be demonstrated and “experienced”, and effectiveness results will be presented and discussed. This day is focused on How to Connect, Reliably and Effectively, for meaningful Team Cohesion.

Day 2: What to Say and Do, once Connected. Focused on techniques and methods, this day includes such elements as Virtual Leadership, Building a Successful Team, Trust, Participation, and Monitoring Progress and what to do when it is missing.

Day 3 (half-day): Three Software Tools that can be of immediate value for your efforts at your company. Demo copies will be provided for all participants to take home from the workshop.

Who Should Participate:

* R&D Managers who are developing products, processes, and services with distributed teams
* IT managers responsible for Corporate Infrastructure to support distributed work.

When: August 1-3, 2007 - The formal program will end on Friday Aug. 3 at noon.

Session Director: Chuck House, Media X Executive Director

Featured Experts: Guest presentations will be given by Stanford faculty, Collaboratory vendors, and Corporate users. Dinner presentations by noted futurists

Cost: $2250; Media X Affiliate participants $1350 The cost includes all materials, two breakfasts, two lunches), dinner on Thursday night, and coffee breaks

More Information: Contact Chuck House, Course Director

Registration:

Registration Opens February 14, 2007

Registration deadline: May 31, 2007
Payment due: June 16, 2007

Reservations may be cancelled without penalty before June 16, 2007
Cancellations after June 17 and before July 7, liable for 50% of charge
Cancellations after July 8, liable for 100% of charges