2021 - Proven Practices to Help Manage Your Work-From-Home Employees

Module One: Dealing with real challenges from the remote workplace
Unique challenges of working in a remote, remote or dispersed team
Success factors for remote teams
Building trust with supervisor and colleagues in a remote environment
Module Two: Culture and the role it plays when working remotely
How to shift the perspective around communication and team building
Understand and define cooperation of team building and communication
Identify the warning signs of a lack of collaboration on work teams.
How to address small problems around bias and inclusion before they escalate.
Address practical ways to influence workplace cultures intentionally
Module Three: Communication Challenges
Overcommunicating and sharing information
Importance of self-awareness
Providing clear and concise communication
Recognize Your own communication style
Use different communication channels for different messages
Module Four: Ensuring your own sense of belonging in a geographically scattered team
Managing your mindset
How to maintain trusting and collaborative relationships with remote team members and avoid conflict
Establishing common ground remotely
Recognize warning signs or isolation
Building teamwork – and employee engagement
Manage stress
Module Five: Holding peer employees accountable
Definition of accountability
Challenges to accountability in others
Your Role
Taking control of your work and productivity
Setting benchmarks and Monitoring progress
Module Six: Strategies for managing (and minimizing) interruptions
What are the interruptions in your day?
Identifying your tolerance toward interruptions
Planning for interruptions
Strategies and tips for managing interruptions
How to manage your relationships: Working for multiple bosses
Learn to say no
Urgent versus important: How to prioritize
Procrastination pros and cons
How to refocus after being interrupted
Module Seven: Effective remote team meetings
3Ps of meetings: Effectively facilitate a meeting
Your role
Agendas
Ground rules: Opening the meeting
Disruptive Behaviors: Controlling the meeting
Interaction and participation: Group dynamics
Manage meeting time
Ending the meeting and Follow Up
Module Eight: Resolve conflict remotely
What are the common conflicts on remote teams
How to prevent conflicts
How conflicts escalate
What are the communications barriers that cause conflicts
How to manage emotions
How to respond to escalating situations
Module Nine: Deliver effective feedback
Understand the distinction between peer feedback and supervisor feedback
Basic "ground rules" for giving effective video feedback
Criticism versus feedback
Specific examples of positive, non-threatening language
Misperceptions about feedback
Give feedback face-to-face (in a video call)
Focus on the positives that lead to improvement
How to focus on things that the person can actually change
When and how should feedback be given: What communication channel to use
Learn how to make feedback detailed and specific
Learn how to make feedback constructive and not destructive
How your communication style affects feedback
Module Ten: Keeping you engaged and emotionally healthy
How to influence the team to keep employees feeling connected
Recognize warning sign of your own feelings of isolation and what to do
Recognize two personality types that struggle with working remotely