Leading Hybrid and Virtual Teams

Description

As remote work becomes more prevalent, the ability to effectively lead teams across diverse geographical locations and digital platforms is crucial. This program will provide participants with the tools and strategies necessary to manage team dynamics, foster collaboration, and maintain productivity in a hybrid or fully virtual environment.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand the challenges and opportunities presented by hybrid and virtual team management.
• Utilize technology effectively to facilitate communication, collaboration, and team cohesion.
• Develop strategies to motivate and engage team members remotely.
• Implement best practices for managing performance and productivity in a virtual setting.
• Create an inclusive and supportive team culture that transcends physical boundaries.

Who Should Take this course

• Managers and leaders who are responsible for overseeing hybrid and virtual teams within their organizations.

Duration

• 3 hours, including brief breaks to maintain engagement and facilitate learning absorption.

Certificate in Frontline Leadership

This course is part of the Certificate in Frontline Leadership offered by the institute. Through a blend of core and elective courses, participants will gain valuable insights and tools to excel in their roles and drive their teams towards success.

Facilitators

Dr. Wayne Corneil is an Adjunct Professor in the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa. He teaches at the postgraduate level on Crisis Leadership, Organizational Continuity and Resilience. He conducts research and program evaluation on psychosocial interventions and on individual and organizational resilience. More recently he has been looking at the implementation of hybrid workplaces. He has been a principal investigator on the APEX Executive Work and Health Studies from 1995 to the current 2024 iteration.

Dr. Corneil provides consulting including the facilitation of courses and training sessions to public and private sector organizations on mental health in the workplace, creating psychologically safe workplaces, resilience, psychosocial preparation for retirement, and crisis leadership.

He spent 32 years in a variety of senior positions in Health Canada at the regional, national and international levels with responsibilities for Occupational Safety & Health, Quarantine and Emergency Health Services.

Some career highlights:

-He is credited with the creation of the Employee Assistance Program for federal departments & agencies.

-He set up and coordinated the traumatic stress response for the Federal Government of Canada including such events as the Gander and Swiss Air crashes.

-He led the federal response to several major health outbreaks, including West Nile virus, H1N1, H5N1, Zika, pneumonic plague, SARS, MERS, and Ebola

-He has conducted research on executive health since 1995 and has taught on occupational health in Canada, the U.K., France, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S.

-He is the author of several books, book chapters, and over 100 articles in professional and scientific journals, including two chapters in the International Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health & Safety.

For twenty years up to 2009, he had a private clinical practice for emergency response personnel, healthcare practitioners, executives and senior officials specializing post-traumatic stress disorders and work-related stress and burnout. Dr. Corneil has doctorate in Epidemiology and Occupational Health Psychology from the Johns Hopkins University and has professional degrees in psychotherapy, social work, criminology and adult education.