Course Overview

With many businesses now encouraging or even mandating that employees work from home amid global health concerns over the coronavirus, millions of people can expect to have their daily routines and work styles impacted. Not everyone is accustomed to working from home. This is likely to be the most difficult hurdle to clear, particularly for new work-from-home employees who have family in the home around the clock. 

But there are ways to deliver results and avoid going stir-crazy, from setting up a good workspace to the way to organize yourself for better collaboration and increased productivity.
 

This course offers best practices for an employee who works full-time or occasionally from home by showing how to set up a dedicated workspace for maximum productivity, including tips on staying healthy and productive. 

Remote Work: Essentials

The trend of working from afar is experiencing a major boost as businesses shift to digital channels and more people avoid physical gatherings. 

Here are three important ingredients to make remote work, successful: Employee, Tools, and Process.
 

• Employee: The most important of these ingredients is the employee. 
  • Employees should have a clear expectation of their role and how vitally important it is to the company. 
  • Engagement through regular communication is most important.
  • Clear instructions on being accountable, committed and follow-up through on work responsibilities
     
• Tools: When people feel disconnected from their colleagues, it can be challenging to collaborate, complete tasks, and share knowledge and ideas with others. One way to improve connections among coworkers - especially for people who work from home -- is with digital collaboration tools.
  • Digital collaboration tools can help to connect with others, make the team more efficient and productive, and assist in achieving business objectives.
  • Be proactive with using project management and communication tools that your company happens to use for collaboration.
  • Don't be afraid to just jump on a quick zoom call to connect with one another. Encourage everybody to be camera ready for effective communication.
     
• Process: A good process provides structure and direction for getting things done. It is also necessary to properly organize the workflow.
  • Make use of good project management software or maintain a shared calendar and share daily work status about what team members have worked that day and what they are working on for the next week. This makes it easy to keep in the loop on projects and also holds everyone accountable to do their part.

Communication

COVID-19 might have reduced economic transactions beyond imagination, however, maintaining an effective and reliable communication channel has become the need of the hour during these testing times.
 

Maintaining an effective, robust, and reliable communication channel with clients and employees has become a sure thing to extricate your business from tough times like this. Let's learn about the best ways to handle internal and client communication during a pandemic. 

Project Management

Managing remote teams is becoming the need of the hour. As a project manager, it becomes your responsibility to set up the path for your teams success.
 

Tips for better managing remote workers

1. Build a foundation of trust: Train remote workers and managers.

2. Enable remote workers with the right tech: Boost collaboration and agility.

3. Redefine project performance metrics for remote workers: Customize it.

Some teams might try to handle everything via emails which are particularly dangerous. Utilizing a remote project management software such as ProProfs Project can help you avoid such problems and streamline your management process.