Managing Employees Who Work from Home or Remotely

Why is this course important?

While countless employees are embracing the benefits of working from home either full time or part-time due to COVID-19, from a manager’s perspective, not having everyone in your team all working together in one place has some significant downsides. After all, how can a busy manager like you manage all of your team’s day-to-day tasks while at the same time keeping everyone motivated when your people are scattered across town?

Being responsible for and leading a team you aren’t seeing face-to-face each day is an important skill that every manager needs regardless of what industry they’re in. So, do you have people within your team that are working from home?

Managing Employees Who Work from Home or Remotely session will help everyone in a management role with a team to manage to learn how to bring their people together and to work cohesively, even if everyone is working outside of their normal team environment.

Course Objectives

This course will increase your ability to:

• Transition from having your team around you to connecting with them remotely via video (MS Teams, Skype, Zoom, etc.).
• Understand the challenges facing your team members who are now being expected to work from home permanently or several days a week.
• Keep your team members motivated and on-pointe, even though your workplace might look very different thought it did pre-COVID-19.

Just Some of What You Will Learn

• What happens after the excitement of working from home wears off and the reality kicks in, especially when project and task deadlines are approaching.
• How your day and week will differ now you are managing a remote team.
• Setting standards for working remotely within your team.
• How you can create trust even though you're not working in the same location.
• Ideas for conducting individual and group meetings.
• Suggestions for one-on-one remote coaching sessions.
• What to do if you think someone in your team is not doing well working from home and how you can help.
• Team activities that engender fun and play to help everyone feel a sense of camaraderie.