Telecommuting: How to effectively organize as a team

Training Theme

This training helps managers to effectively organize teleworking as a team. It addresses the daily challenges of hybrid work and offers concrete solutions to maintain collaboration and productivity. Participants learn how to define the terms and conditions of teleworking, how to regularly monitor the well-being of employees via surveys, and how to establish a charter of good practices. The training emphasizes the importance of clear communication, the effective use of collaborative tools and the respect of work-life balance. Concrete examples and practical tools allow for immediate implementation.

Training Objectives

In this online course, you will learn how to:

• Define and organize teleworking arrangements as a team
• Regularly take the pulse of teleworkers through questionnaires and surveys
• Guarantee motivation, collaboration, and productivity in telework
• Adjust to the needs of the teleworker in terms of comfort, belonging, and autonomy
• Define together the rules of the game for the organization of teleworking
• Use the best online collaborative tools effectively and collectively
• Write as a team your charter/mapping of good practices for teleworking

Target Audience 

Remote Managers

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 "Vili's Hybrid Balance", 2'12
  • The story of a manager who faces the challenges of hybrid work and seeks to foster balanced collaboration
• Quiz: A look back at the video
• Taking the pulse of remote teams
  • Overview of survey tools
  • Essential questions to ask

LEARN

• Expert video: Organising teleworking arrangements, 7'44
  • How to rethink the organization of work and streamline remote interactions
• Quiz and TRUE/FALSE on good practices for teleworking

ANCHOR

• Mapping of telework arrangements:
  • Who works where and when
  • Reachability and availability
  • Communication rules
• Use concrete examples to define your own commitment to change.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Downloadable documents:
  • Coaching memo sheet (PDF)
• Bonus:
  • TED or Youtube video(s)