026 - How to Lead Virtual Teams: Part 4 - Fostering a shared team culture

This episode is part of my free and flexible course: How to Lead Virtual Teams. Each course topic includes a podcast to listen to, prompts to help you reflect on your practice and inspiration to explore the topic further.  Topic: Fostering a shared team culture Listen: Working in innovative ways, as virtual and hybrid teams, offers us the opportunity to re-imagine how work and what our day to day feels like. In this episode, I’ll be discussing ways of fostering a shared team culture. Simply put, we’ll be exploring the question ‘What do you want your team or organisation feel like on a day to day basis?’ and how do you achieve that. For this topic, we’ll be referring mainly to examples from Chapter 2 of ⁠⁠Leading Virtual Teams⁠⁠. Reflect: Setting aside some time to reflect will help you develop your critical, analytical and reflective skills as a leader or manager. For this topic, the prompts are: How would you describe the team culture? Are there any existing problems or ways of working you are seeking to change? What would you like to see happen? What are the barriers that are stopping you? What experience and skills will help you achieve yours aims? Explore: Head over to the course page for the ⁠dedicated post for this topic⁠ which includes links to further reading, tools and resources to explore. Download the course companion book, ⁠⁠⁠Leading Virtual Teams⁠⁠⁠. The book is free to download in different formats and we will use individual chapters from the book throughout the course. For each topic, individual chapters are sign-posted, so you can explore issues particularly relevant to your practice further. Find out more on the ⁠⁠⁠course homepage⁠⁠⁠ or head over to my ⁠⁠coaching offers for individuals and teams⁠⁠ if you are interested in working with me.