Working from Home Effectively 

Working from Home Effectively 

$399.00

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Description

Learn in a classroom environment, virtually, with an instructor online.

Length: 1 day

Target Audience: employees, front line leaders, senior leaders

Participant Profile: Any employee at any level who works from home regularly and wishes to enhance their efficiency and effectiveness.

Course Description

If you’re reading this course description while wearing Star Wars pajama pants and fuzzy slippers, you might just be working from home! But while you may feel comfortable, this course will provide you with the practical knowledge, skills, and tools to help you excel in the four main challenges, according to research, of working from home. Those challenges are:

  1. Time management and work/life balance
  2. Communication and Trust Building
  3. Organization and dealing with distractions
  4. Self-discipline and motivation

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Explain and apply personalized time management techniques.
  2. Make strategic choices to balance work and life responsibilities.
  3. Apply conversational tools to negotiate work terms with their supervisor.
  4. Describe an Accountability Agreement process with their supervisor and team to enhance communications, trust, and accountability.
  5. Identify their individual organization ‘style’ and design a workspace suited to that style.
  6. Explain key challenges in their own self-discipline and motivation.
  7. Identify and develop practical strategies to address self-discipline and motivation challenges.

Content:

  • Time management and work/life balance:
    • Identify key time management and energy challenges (pre-course activity to be conducted 1 to 3 weeks before course)
    • How to focus on high-impact tasks
    • Identify their own ‘biological prime time’
    • Managing the interplay of time, energy, and attention
    • Implement energy-building lifestyle choices and behaviours
    • Secrets of staying focused and not allowing distractions to affect efficiency
    • Reproducible job aids
  • Communication and trust building:
    • Key communications techniques for remote workers and teams
      • Putting your ‘best face forward’ online
      • Team communication techniques
      • Staying connected
    • Negotiating work from home parameters with supervisors
    • Negotiating an Accountability Agreement with supervisors and teams
    • Reproducible job aids
  • Organization and dealing with distractions:
    • Organizational styles (self-assessment):
      • Micro-organizer
      • Sentimentalist
      • Stacker
      • Spreader
      • Procrastinator
    • Designing your workspace to suit your organizational style
    • Attention challenges and strategies for staying focused
    • Managing technology so it works for you
    • Reproducible job aids
  • Self-discipline and motivation:
    • The nature of self-discipline and motivation
    • Establishing a routine
    • Setting up a dedicated workspace
    • Psychological impact of getting dressed
    • Daily and weekly goals
    • Establishing ground rules with family/friends/roommates
    • Reproducible job aids

Supplement Material
A student manual is available for the learner to follow during the instructor’s presentation.

Benefits to the participants
Throughout the activities, the learners will look at different topics that will enable employees to be more effective and efficient working from home.

Course Evaluation
A course evaluation will be completed by the learners once the course is finished.

Note: The course outline may be subject to change.

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