Realizing Telework Team Effectiveness

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Realizing Telework Team Effectiveness

Flexible, adaptive teamwork is critical to the success of virtual work. Participants will take a deep dive into what teaming is and how to master it in your remote work environment. You will walk away not only with elevated knowledge about teams (and how to lead them), but also with valuable resources, including a better understanding of your organization’s web conferencing tools (e.g., Zoom, Microsoft Teams) you can use to elevate your team’s performance.

Learning Objectives

  • Define what is meant by “teaming” and its benefits
  • Define complementary roles, skills, and talents that make up the anatomy of an effective team
  • Leverage resources to create effective virtual teams in your organization
  • Determine how best to use your organization’s web conference tools to enhance collaboration

Polishing Your Virtual Presentation Skills

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Polishing Your Virtual Presentation Skills

Discover how to powerfully convey key messages in a virtual setting. Participants will learn essential presentation principles, how to define presentation outcomes, and avoid common presentation pitfalls. You will understand how to successfully convey your message using visuals and apply virtual presentation skills to ensure your message is heard.

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize the fundamentals of stellar presentation design skills
  • Distinguish the most effective presentation speaking skills to employ based on desired outcomes
  • Determine and apply your individual approach and preferences for virtual presentations

Organizing and Leading Remote Meetings (aka Facilitating Virtual Meetings)

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Organizing and Leading Remote Meetings (aka Facilitating Virtual Meetings)

Whether you are new to telework or not, learning how to plan for and lead effective virtual meetings is a key skill that will allow you to drive meaningful, engaging, and high-impact remote meetings. You will discover expert facilitation skills that will ensure engagement of meeting participants, techniques to employ to enable virtual collaboration, and tips on addressing conflicts constructively (90 minutes).

Learning Objectives

  • Use best practices to manage time and virtual participant engagement in remote meetings
  • Leverage technology tools to increase collaboration
  • Identify key components to design and facilitate effective virtual meetings

Managing a Mobile Workforce

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Managing a Mobile Workforce

Organizations have embraced telework and workplace flexibility, and it is important to equip managers to lead a more mobile and distributed workforce. Participants will learn techniques and best practices for increased team collaboration and work-life integration to use while navigating a mobile environment.

Learning Objectives

  • Determine the shifts needed to manage a remote workforce
  • Use tips, tricks, and tools for virtual communications and working norms in a mobile environment
  • Identify success factors for making mobile work effective

Leading Effective Meetings & Virtual Teams

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Leading Effective Meetings & Virtual Teams

Beginning with the foundations of meeting design, participants will discover ways to plan productive meetings. You will understand how to successfully navigate multiple facets of teleworking, including how to recognize your own reactions to change and explore behaviors and best practices to improve telework team effectiveness. Learn ways to take greater control of your environment, set boundaries, manage your time and energy, and make small moves to create a big impact on your wellness.

Learning Objectives

  • Leverage key principles in meeting design and facilitation to lead outcome-driven meetings
  • Apply tips, tools, and resources for managing productivity in a telework environment

Employing Collaborative Virtual Tools

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Employing Collaborative Virtual Tools

Collaboration tools can enable team connection in a virtual work environment. They can also bring their own challenges, such as selecting the right tool for the right situation. Discover fundamental skills of using your organization’s virtual collaboration tools (e.g., chat/IM/text, email, phone call, video call). With so many collaboration features available within your virtual tools, how do you determine the most effective collaboration practice and match it with the most useful feature? Participants will gain experience in those tools and features used most frequently within your organization and learn how to optimize best practices for collaboration.

Learning Objectives

  • Determine the core set of available technology tools
  • Develop optimal collaboration results for virtual environments

Embracing Your Virtual Work Environment

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Embracing Your Virtual Work Environment

In today’s virtual work environment, strategies for managing wellness and productivity are more important than ever. Discover key guiding principles and strategies to effectively navigate your physical and mental space as you work from home. Participants will be equipped with techniques and resources to help you intentionally design your physical and mental spaces and conquer the virtual work environment! (60 min workshop)

 

Learning Objectives

  • Increase self-awareness of your preferences within the virtual environment
  • Identify specific practices for managing your physical and mental space in a virtual environment
  • Develop a tailored plan of action to optimize your virtual work environment for wellbeing and productivity

Amazing Race through Microsoft Teams

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Amazing Race through Microsoft Teams

Accelerate your understanding of Microsoft Teams by completing tasks in small groups. Participants will complete a checklist in a race against other groups and discuss your findings in this fast-paced and interactive session. (60 min workshop)

 

Learning Objectives

  • Experiment with the most common functions of Microsoft Teams
  • Identify actions needed to better utilize Microsoft Teams
  • Increase your team’s virtual collaboration capabilities