Manage your remote team with empathy and intention to ensure employee productivity, connection, and success.
Summary
The course “Manage Your Remote Team with Empathy and Intention” aims to equip managers with the necessary skills to lead virtual teams effectively, ensuring productivity, connection, and success. It addresses the challenges of managing remote teams by emphasizing the importance of intentional and purposeful management practices. The course is particularly beneficial for managers new to remote work and HR or L&D professionals supporting virtual workforces.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Adapting Best Practices: Learn to modify traditional management strategies to suit an online environment, ensuring they remain effective in a virtual setting.
- Leading with Empathy: Understand the importance of empathy and support in managing a remote team, promoting a compassionate and understanding leadership style.
- Streamlining Communication: Adjust communication norms to enhance the flow of information, making remote communication more efficient and effective.
- Updating Meetings: Tailor meeting content and frequency to better fit virtual platforms, making meetings more productive and less time-consuming.
- Prioritizing Asynchronous Work: Focus on asynchronous work methods to optimize team members’ time and reduce dependency on real-time interactions.
- Maintaining Connection: Develop strategies to foster a sense of belonging and connection among remote employees throughout their lifecycle.
- Expanding Feedback Styles: Adapt feedback methods to suit online mediums, ensuring constructive and clear communication.
- Managing Hybrid Teams: Explore techniques for effectively managing teams that are partly remote, balancing the needs of both remote and in-office employees.
Course Requirements:
Participants should ideally have employees they directly manage to fully benefit from the course content.
Course Structure:
The course is divided into five sections with 18 lectures, totaling 54 minutes. Key sections include:
- Adjusting to Change: Techniques for adapting to the remote work environment.
- Empathy Best Practices: Methods for supporting employee well-being and maintaining morale.
- Communication and Workflow: Establishing communication norms and documenting processes.
- Meeting Management: Optimizing meeting practices and prioritizing asynchronous work.
- Onboarding and Feedback: Effective onboarding of new employees and giving virtual feedback.
- Hybrid Teams: Managing the dynamics of hybrid teams.
Intended Audience:
This course is designed for managers who are new to remote work and HR/L&D professionals seeking tips to support a virtual workforce. The practical exercises and strategies provided aim to help managers overcome current challenges and prepare for the future of remote work.
The course provides a comprehensive toolkit for managers to enhance their remote leadership skills, ensuring their teams remain productive, connected, and successful in a virtual work environment.
What You’ll Learn
- Adapt management best practices to an online environment
Requirements
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You should have employees you directly manage for this course to be most helpful.
Description
Working from home can be difficult. Managing from home can be even trickier. Management requires tons of communication and collaboration with your team. So, what’s the best approach to managing when you’re all working remotely?
If you’re a virtual manager, everything must be done with more intention and purpose. You can’t just do what you normally do, except over Zoom. Managing from home requires re-examining your management practices and adapting your behaviors for a remote world. If you’re able to pivot the way you and your team work from home, the more productive, connected, and successful you’ll be.
I built this course for managers who are new to working remotely. Perhaps, like many (including myself!), you had to switch very quickly to working virtually, and didn’t have the time or resources to plan what that would look like. I had to learn a lot (and I’m still learning) as I adapted to this new way of working and I think my team and I are better for it. In this course, I’d like to share the strategies, tips, and tools that have worked for us, including resources we developed for all of our Udemy employees.
In this course, you will:
- Adapt management best practices to an online environment
- Lead a virtual team with empathy and understanding
- Adjust communication norms to streamline the flow of information
- Update meeting content and cadence for virtual platforms
- Prioritize asynchronous work to optimize your team’s time
- Maintain connection and foster belonging throughout the remote employee lifecycle
- Expand your feedback style for an online medium
- Explore techniques for managing a hybrid (partly remote) team
As you go through this course, I hope you find techniques that can help you solve some of the problems you’re facing right now, and for the foreseeable future. Remote work may be here to stay – join me in this course to be the best virtual manager you can be!
Who this course is for
- Managers new to remote work who need to adapt their practices for a virtual work environment
- HR/L&D professionals who need tips to support a virtual workforce
