Leading Virtual Project Teams: Dos and Don’ts
A workshop presented at PMI Global Congress EMEA on 9th May 2016 in Barcelona, Spain.
The Project Management Institute invited me to present a three hour workshop to their Global Congress EMEA in Barcelona, Spain in May 2016, alongside a Greek project manager named Evi Prokopi.
Here you can find the paper we wrote together on ‘Leading Virtual Project Teams: Dos and Don’ts’.
At the Congress workshop, I asked groups of project managers what challenges they faced with their virtual project teams. This is the result of their answers:
Here are the outputs of the day, including the presentation and with many photographs of the workshop and all the activity and exercises.
I challenged tables to don masks and then create a square from a piece of navy wool. There were lots of different results and lots of learning about how it feels to have body language and other visual information cut off.
Some lovely feedback – thank you to those who took part!
Penny was well prepared and experienced presenter. She knew the topic well and was engaging. I recommend her.
Penny: good engaging presenter. Have her back.
Play was great!
Very good and interactive session. The time passed very quickly which is a good sign in my opinion.
Workshop was engaging and entertaining.
Penny was great and very knowledgable about the topic. She engaged with the audience in s very supportive and impersonal way.
Thank You!
Penny was clearly a high perfomer and highly appreciated.