Leading Virtual Teams In The Pharma And Biotech World.Ppt
1. FX Conference Leading Virtual Teams in the Pharma and Biotech World The Four Cornerstones of Success January 26, 2010 Lynda McDermott Certified Speaking Professional President EquiPro International
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5. “ GROUPS DO NOT BECOME TEAMS SIMPLY BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT WE CALL THEM”
6. Leading Virtual Teams – The Four Cornerstones of Success: PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT MANAGING DIFFERENCES MOTIVATION FACE TIME
7. Motivation Ensuring Equity Keeping Things Interesting and Fun ! Providing Meaningful Work Using the Right Leadership Style
8. HIERARCHY OF NEEDS Independence Esteem- Egoistic Belonging - Social Safety-Security Physical – Survival (TO BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE - TO DO SOMETHING WORTHWHILE) (FREEDOM TO CONTROL YOUR OWN DESTINY) (TO WANT TO BE IMPORTANT AND RECOGNIZED) (TO WANT TO BE INCLUDED) (TO WANT TO CONTINUE LIVING - FUTURE ) (TO WANT TO STAY ALIVE - NOW ) Self Actualization
9. Situational Leadership® High Relationship and Low Task High Task and High Relationship Low Relationship and High Task High Task and Low Relationship S3 S2 S1 S4 HIGH LOW Supportive Behavior Relationship Behavior ® Task Behavior Directive Behavior HIGH LOW Delegating Participating Selling Telling Performance Readiness HIGH MODERATE LOW Self Directed Leader Directed Situational Leadership is a registered trademark of the Center or Leadership Studies, Inc. Copyright 1985, 2006, Center for Leadership Studies, Inc. All Rights Reserved Unable and Insecure or Unwilling Unable but Confident or Unwilling Able but Insecure or Unwilling Able and Confident and Willing R1 R2 R3 R4
10. Performance Management Aligning Direction and Strategy Building and Maintaining Collaboration High-touch/High Tech Team Musts Ongoing Team Performance Assessments
11. WORLD CLASS HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS Adapted From World-Class Teams
This may be one of the most difficult components of leading virtual teams. It’s tough enough to manage differences when you are face-to-face every day with your team members—let alone trying to do it when you are miles apart and relying on technology to communicte. As you know d ifferences come in a wide variety such as: Cultural differences—I deal with this a lot in the global teams I work with. But it can even occur even if you are all located in one country—like the U.S. I’m sure you’ve experienced differences in the culture of various regions/cities. As I mentioned earlier I was born and started my career in Ohio. However, in 1979 I moved to New York. Talk about a cultural difference. And now having spent almost a year travelling to and getting to know the ‘culture’ of Tampa—I can tell you there is a big difference in the business culture fro NYC! There are other differences you might experience: Time Zones Interaction styles Work styles Technologies Goal setting/approaches Work ethic And of course – differences of opinions! Managing all those differences requires some special tools, tactics and of course…patience! As the first step in Managing Differences it is important to acknowledge what those differences are and to identify if the differences are, in fact, causing any problems! (I’m always reminded when I deal with Managing Differences that the whole reason we put teams together is so we leverage our diversity. But when these diverse folks come together, they usually spend a lot of time whining about why their team members don’t think and act like they do!!!) The next step is to use Emotional Intelligence in managing your responses to those differences. Emotional Intelligence, which I’ve written a booklet on that you can see at the back of this slide deck, is the ability to manage yourself and manage your reactions to others in order to create a positive interaction and result. Let me ask you to go temporarily to the next slide (Slide 15) to make the point that it is important to move from Judging to Appreciating and Valuing your team’s differences. Now moving back to the Managing Differences Slide--Another key to managing differences is to periodically engage the team in teambuilding activities. Even though with the pressure to reduce in-person meetings—the more frequently you can meet face to face, engage in some teambuilding activities and “breaking bread” together, the more easy it is to resolve differences. When I work with virtual teams I insist that we launch them in a 2 day face to face meeting. During that meeting we establish the team’s charter and boundaries, set goals, examine their decision-making process through simulations, get insights into each other’s working and communications styles,etc. All of this is done so we can set these virtual teams up for success. It doesn’t ensure it—but the feedback I’ve received from the virtual team leaders is that the Team Launch experience was invaluable. So hopefully you can see how all of these things can help a team manage it’s differences, but what happens in those instances when you just can’t seem to resolve the disagreements that arise—what do you do then? Well, managing conflict is tricky even when you are sitting across the table from someone else. It’s even more difficult when you can’t see the person’s reactions. I’m not going to teach my virtual team conflict management course here, but suffice it to say that if the disagreements arise in a team meeting and can’t be resolved you have the option of: a) taking it “off-line” and having a one on one conversation. b) getting the people who are involved offline with you as the team leader or another 3 rd party referee; or c) you may have to get in a car or on a plane! You may also want to provide a module on Conflict Management at one of your team’s meetings if you meet face to face or even do it virtually. For example one alliance team I’m working with had an offsite and invited me to do a Conflict Management Module. Ahead of the meeting I had each member complete a 360 Conflict Profile so that they could evaluate how they think they manage conflict and their team members could do the same. At the meeting we gave out the survey results and we talked about how they needed to change behaviors in how they managed conflict in deciding what strategies and tactics they needed to implement for product success. Our follow-up will be coaching ‘pairs’ of people who are working together in resolving any differences that are lingering.