Global Leadership for Technical Teams New

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.

Project managers, business and technical managers of all types are the primary target but anyone working in global technology development projects would benefit.

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.

1. Introduction
2. Leadership
3. Forming the Team, Assigning Roles, and Establishing Team Norms
4. Communication – Skills and Methods for Virtual Project Teams
5. Cross-Cultural Considerations and Issues
6. Technology and Virtual Teams
7. Leading and Motivating Virtual Project Teams
8. Professional Responsibility, Ethics, Team Codes of Conduct

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.