Remote leadership essentials: keeping them engaged collaborative & productive
- Struggling to keep team members engaged and motivated at a distance?
- Unsure how to build trust and accountability with remote employees?
- Need help facilitating collaboration and communication online?
- Want to boost your team’s productivity when working from home?
- Concerned about keeping your remote team cohesive and aligned?
- Wrestling with how to support employees through crises remotely?
- Dealing with team members feeling isolated and disconnected?
- Looking for ways to adapt your leadership style for virtual settings?
- Missing the benefits of in-person interactions and relationships?
- Lacking experience managing a fully remote workforce?
WorkingSm@rt as a Remote Leader will arm you with all of the tools needed to overcome these challenges.
AT A GLANCE
Audience
Any manager, supervisor or leader that has to manage a remote team. Those interested in setting standards and processes of working virtually.
Format
- 1 x 2-hours, instructor-led online session
- Follow-up 1-hour group online refresher
What’s Included
- Subscription to our monthly LearningLink e-newsletter
Managing Teams Remotely
Managing people who are in remote working environments brings new challenges. Face-to-face leadership techniques need to be reproduced virtually. The ability to support your Team’s wellbeing and to motivate them has never been greater.
WorkingSm@rt as a Remote Leader will help you:
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- Define the remote leadership role
- Identify top drivers for remote team engagement
- Explore trust and accountability
- Investigate collaboration techniques
- Practice techniques for individual engagement
- Establish team engagement
- Use technology to improve collaboration
- Create a team agreement
- Support your team through challenges
What You Will Learn
Keeping Your Team Engaged
Practicing techniques to keep remote team members motivated and invested, like establishing trust, accountability, and individual engagement.
Keeping Your Team Productive
Using collaboration techniques and technology to maximize your team’s efficiency and workflow while working remotely.
Keeping Your Team Cohesive
Creating team agreements to promote alignment and bonding for a remote workforce.
Supporting Your Team
Covering strategies to assist your team in dealing with potential crises, isolation, and other challenges amplified by remote work.
Detailed Synopsis
Format
- Hands-on Instructor-led Sessions: 1 x 2-hours, instructor-led online session
What’s Included
- Ongoing support: WorkingSm@rt Helpdesk, no matter where you work.
- LearningLink: Our monthly productivity e-newsletter to keep you updated.
Units
- How to lead a Team in a virtual environment, while understanding the importance of wellbeing, the impact of stress, and different motivational needs.
- Leading Online Meetings and handling different ‘Characters’ and communication styles
- Organising Team Communications and creating the right conditions for your Team to perform effectively while working remotely and building rapport
- Delegating from a distance and reinforcing trust
- Enhancing Personal Organisation Skills including Daily Planning, Communicating and Scheduling
