Managing Remote Teams Program

About Course

Communicating and reaching out to your team members can be very tricky, especially when they are faced with different socio-environmental circumstances. Knowing how to lead remote teams has become a key management skill, helping you harness and develop your best talent to ensure business success.

The Managing Remote Teams program is an online program that equips you as a leader with the needed tools and knowledge to effectively and efficiently lead your team members.

Course Content

Introduction to course
Welcome to our course. Here you will learn how to effectively manage your remote team members, through applying practical knowledge.

Welcome to our Course

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Module 1: HR Implementer
This module will tackle the key HR issues you need to ensure are in place such as risk assessments, insurance, health and safety and equipment. We look at what policies you have in place as well as learning and development, resourcing and diversity and inclusion considerations. As flexibility is on the rise we cover what aspects you need to be aware of to engage your people remotely. Contracts may have to be adjusted too and working hours monitored. The key objective of the HR module is to give you the confidence to know the key HR essentials for your remote workers

Module 2: Culture Cultivator
During this module we will cover the company vision and the current company culture. We explore whether the current culture needs to be evolved to include the new ways of working and the values and beliefs of your team. We also discuss and refine an elevator speech for your teams to communicate what the culture and mission of your teams are The key objective of the culture cultivator module is to help you define and involve your team in developing a culture that inspires.

Module 3: Commitment Engager
This module covers what factors need to be in place for your teams to be engaged and how can you incorporate these practices into your team management to avoid disconnect between employees and the company The key objective of the Commitment Engager module is to define the practices that will harness the emotional commitment of your remote team.

Module 4: Performance Enhancer
In this module we cover how your team is currently performing and what the key internal and external influences may be. We discuss an easy to follow performance framework as well as how to give feedback online and have difficult conversations. Essential to performance is keeping employees motivated, so learning and development and personal needs need to be incorporated into performance goals. The key objective of the Performance Enhancer module is to ensure you find the levers to help your people perform tasks that are meaningful to them.

Module 5: Creative Communicator
In this module, we explore how to enhance remote communication. As online communication is very different to face to face we discuss how we should be communicating with our employees online as well as the appropriate use of technology. Communicating effectively may mean using visual, kinaesthetic and auditory communication. We examine ideas for communication and incorporate some of these in your action plan. Having a coaching style of communication is key so we look at adapting our “check-ins” using coaching conversations.

Module 6: Wellbeing Protector
Wellbeing has become more important in recent times, as work-life balance continues to be a difficult thing to juggle. We firstly look at your daily routine and how you can bring balance into it for yourself and then we look at how you can help your employees with their wellbeing and day to day scheduling. We discuss wellbeing remote leadership practices and resources at your disposal from wellbeing organisations. The key objective of the Wellbeing protector module is to ensure you are aware of wellbeing and help employees to lead a satisfying and healthy worklife.

About Course

What Will You Learn?

Course Content

Introduction to course Welcome to our course. Here you will learn how to effectively manage your remote team members, through applying practical knowledge.

Welcome to our Course

HR Implementer

Culture Cultivator

Commitment Engager

Performance Enhancer

Creative Communicator

Wellbeing Protector

Introduction to course
Welcome to our course. Here you will learn how to effectively manage your remote team members, through applying practical knowledge.