Course Duration: 3.5
CMSI Re-certification Credits: 3.5
NASBA CPE credits: 2

PMI/PDU Credits: 0

The learner will be assisted in acquiring leadership skills unique to virtual teams.

* Recognize the importance of successfully leading virtual teams.
* Identify several fundamentals of leadership theory as they apply to managing virtual teams.
* Choose examples of businesspeople as true leaders, especially as this applies to virtual teams.
* Distinguish between effective and ineffective methods of leadership in virtual teams.

* Recognize the benefits of leading virtual teams through instrumentality.
* Identify various functions of traditional models of leadership.
* Identify various functions of the emerging models of leadership.
* Match several principles of Chaos Theory with their applications to leading virtual teams.
* Distinguish between instrumental and manipulative management of virtual teams.

* Recognize the value of transactional, transformational and situational leadership as applied to virtual teams.
* Identify key characteristics of the Transactional Model of leadership.
* Identify the key characteristics of the Transformational Model of leadership.
* Identify the key characteristics of the Situational Model of leadership.

* Recognize the critical importance of the unique and varied roles required to provide successful leadership for virtual teams.
* Distinguish between the roles of Director and Mentor in leading virtual teams.
* Distinguish between the roles of the Producer and the Facilitator in leading virtual teams.
* Distinguish between the roles of the Coordinator and the Innovator in leading virtual teams.
* Distinguish between the roles of the Monitor and the Team Builder in leading virtual teams.