Team diversity is a competitive advantage, but global teams have unique challenges such as fragmented effort by isolated team members who may confuse meanings and lack clear understanding of goals and tasks of the team. On the upside, high-value global teams use information together to innovate, learn and execute business strategy for a global enterprise to operate effectively. This webcast addresses three essential characteristics of productive global teams-engagement, cohesion, and goal clarity--as well the underlying competencies of global collaboration. more »
While diverse perspectives are essential to team productivity, ultimately a productive team must speak the same language literally (for understanding) and figuratively to agree on team direction and approaches. Global teams have an immediate advantage by their composition to having diverse perspectives, but how they hammer out understanding and agreement is critical to their performance. This webcast will cover how diverse teams make decisions, while making the most of their diversity. more »
Is your HR organization prepared to interact with talent from four continents in the same day? The international aspects of workforce planning involve assembling teams who can work together for productivity. When HR becomes a Global Talent Manager, how does HR verify and improve critical team competencies? This webcast will address what HR and Line Managers can do to grow their global business through effective virtual teams. more »
With team members dispersed globally, how do you ensure they work together effectively to achieve shared goals? A variety of tools and approaches help different type team collaborations move projects forward, but understanding which approach to take across the variety of teams used in today's global company is challenging. How is knowledge effectively conveyed, exchanged, and confirmed between multiple members? This webcast will explore if your global team collaborations are getting the maximum impact from using the technologies that help move their work forward.
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Imagine a cross-functional product team with members in India (for telemarketing), China (for manufacturing) and Europe (for product design). When teams are global, team development and effectiveness comes with inherent challenges in language and understanding, as well as how teams resolve differences in perspective and motivation. This webcast will lay out how leaders of cross-functional global teams can help their teams be productive to meet business deliverables. You'll hear insights about how global enterprises successfully leverage global talent teams for competitive advantage. Whether you are on a global team, lead a global team, or are responsible for a global business initiative, this webcast will help you overcome challenges faced by global teams to achieve desired business results.
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Best-in-class product management relies on a cross-functional product team who take business responsibility for the profitability of a product. As teams become more diverse and global, this requires team membership from multiple disciplines to manage a product like a business, and executives and management who can commit needed organizational resources. This webcast addresses how cross-functional product teams meet the challenge posed by Jim Collins...combining discipline with entrepreneurship as the alchemy of good performance. Accountabilities, functional support plans and effective product team leadership will be discussed. If you want to develop talent and leadership potential in your product teams, this webcast is for you! more »