Global Leadership for Technical Teams New
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Fee
- $1,495
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Fee covers course materials.
Discounts
10% discount per person for participants registered in the Technical Leadership Certificate series. Promo code needed during registration.
ID
RA00042-D653
Credits
- CEU: 1.4
- PDH: 14
Schedule
Registration Date/Time:
8/19/2025 7:30am Central Time
Event Dates/Times:
- 8/19/2025 8:00am - 4:00pm Central Time
- 8/20/2025 8:00am - 4:00pm Central Time
Course Notes
Offered In Person or Online; You Choose
Instructor
Shawn Belling
Location
Accommodations
Room: rates start at $170
Group Code: Global Leadership
Reserve by: Jul. 18, 2025
Topic:
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend, please notify us no later than one week before your course begins, and we will refund your fee. Cancellations received after this date and no-shows are subject to a $150 administrative fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.
Course Overview
Company leadership, at any level, is today often global in nature. Furthermore, after the COVID pandemic, development teams have been asked to manage these teams with less travel and face-to-face interaction. This course provides the student with all the necessary skills to effectively manage technical teams that span global locations, cultures and languages.
Learning Outcomes
Course Objectives:
- Describe methods for leading a culturally and geographically diverse team effectively and productively by understanding the team members’ different cultural norms.
- Describe specific cultural differences that a global team member or manager may encounter in specific countries.
- Define how cultural differences may impact a project.
- Identify technology tools used to manage a virtual project team.
- Describe methods for managing the virtual work process effectively.
Who Should Attend?
Project managers, business and technical managers of all types are the primary target but anyone working in global technology development projects would benefit.
Additional Information
This course is part of the Technical Leadership Certificate. Course may be taken individually as well.
Course Outline
- Introduction
- Leadership
- Forming the Team, Assigning Roles, and Establishing Team Norms
- Communication – Skills and Methods for Virtual Project Teams
- Cross-Cultural Considerations and Issues
- Technology and Virtual Teams
- Leading and Motivating Virtual Project Teams
- Professional Responsibility, Ethics, Team Codes of Conduct
Instructor
Shawn Belling
Shawn Belling is a technology executive, speaker, instructor, and author based in Madison, WI. Shawn has held executive and management roles in health tech, higher education, software, consulting, bio-pharma, manufacturing, and regulatory compliance sectors.
Shawn is a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Professional Programs (InterPro) within the College of Engineering at UW-Madison. Shawn is also the Delivery Experience Officer at FarWell Project Advisors LLC of Madison, WI. Areas of professional and academic practice include project and program management, agile practices, organizational change management, software and IT strategy and delivery, new product development and remote work.
In addition to over 30 years of technology and project leadership experience, Shawn teaches, speaks and consults for businesses, universities and professional organizations on various leadership and management topics and practices. Shawn released his books Succeeding with Agile Hybrids in November of 2020 and Remotely Possible in June of 2021.
Shawn is certified by PMI as a Project Management Professional and Agile Certified Practitioner and is also a Certified Scrum Professional and Registered Scrum at Scale Practitioner.
Shawn earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater and Master of Science in Project Management from UW – Platteville. Shawn earned a certificate in Organizational Change Leadership from UW-Platteville and Doctor of Education in Leadership at the University of the Cumberlands.
Global Leadership for Technical Teams
Location: Madison, WI or Live Online
Course #: RA00042-D653
Fee: $1,495
Fee
- $1,495
-
Fee covers course materials.
Discounts
10% discount per person for participants registered in the Technical Leadership Certificate series. Promo code needed during registration.
Credits
- CEU: 1.4
- PDH: 14
Schedule
Registration Date/Time:
8/19/2025 7:30am Central Time
Event Dates/Times:
- 8/19/2025 8:00am - 4:00pm Central Time
- 8/20/2025 8:00am - 4:00pm Central Time
Course Notes
Offered In Person or Online; You Choose
Instructor
Shawn Belling
Location
Accommodations
Room: rates start at $170
Group Code: Global Leadership
Reserve by: Jul. 18, 2025
Topic:
Cancellation Policy
If you cannot attend, please notify us no later than one week before your course begins, and we will refund your fee. Cancellations received after this date and no-shows are subject to a $150 administrative fee. You may enroll a substitute at any time before the course starts.
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