Telecommuting: 5 keys to a cohesive and high-performing team

Training Theme

This training offers practical tools to maintain a cohesive and efficient team while teleworking. It is based on 5 good practices: accessibility of information, trust and team cohesion, the inclusion of teleworkers in exchanges, adaptation to time constraints, and regular feedback. The training offers concrete solutions such as live virtual office, peer coaching, random meetings and team rituals. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining informal connections and celebrating events despite the distance, to preserve team spirit and commitment.

Training Objectives

In this online course, you will learn how to:

• Promote accessibility to remote information to keep teleworkers involved and connected
• Organize inclusive online meetings and inclusive rituals
• Develop trust and cohesion in the team by creating opportunities for collaboration and celebrating events even from a distance
• Include remote workers in exchanges and decision-making
• Adjust schedules to integrate remote workers abroad
• Implement a mentoring system for the integration of new employees
• Encourage regular feedback and feedback on experience to maintain a dynamic of improving team spirit

Target Audience 

Anyone sensitive to diversity and inclusion topics

Means and Methods 

• E-learning Modules: Consisting of text, videos, interactive content, and quizzes designed to help you achieve the defined learning outcomes.
• Additional resources: Downloadable documents such as the coaching memo sheet (PDF).

Training Content 

This module contains 4 parts:

DISCOVER

• Identify your personal challenges and motivations for change

SHAKING UP

• Storytelling: Video "Alan and Laura's Hybrid Harmony", 2'18
  • A typical day for two employees navigating between office and telecommuting, illustrating how to maintain collaboration and engagement
• Quiz on the teachings of the video

LEARN

• Expert video: Remote work and inclusion, 5'10
  • 5 best practices to promote inclusion in remote work: accessibility of information, inclusive virtual meetings, trust and cohesion, feedback and inclusion
• 4 clever tips for more inclusion:
  • The Live Virtual Office
  • Pair coaching
  • Random Encounters
  • The space for personal expression
• True/False quiz and exercise on good practices

ANCHOR

• The inclusive evening ritual: 15 minutes of team sharing with reflective questions
• Celebrating events remotely: practical suggestions
• Use concrete examples to define your own commitment to change

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Downloadable documents:
  • Coaching memo sheet (PDF)