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Online Courses: Asynchronous Work Management
Online Courses: Asynchronous Work Management
Online Courses
Planning for the Remote-First, Work-from-Anywhere Organization (1 hour, 8 minutes)
Remote work is here to stay. To recruit and retain top talent—and build a more diverse, efficient, and inclusive organization—leaders must embrace a remote-first culture. In this course, instructor Chris Herd details why and how companies can develop the ability to operate in this way. Learn how a shift to remote work can lead to happier and healthier organizations and employees. Get insights into different remote-first models, including asynchronous work, and learn about key tools that can help your teams communicate and collaborate efficiently from anywhere. Plus, Chris outlines the key challenges of going remote, so that you can sidestep these common mistakes in your own transformation.
Finding Flow in Hybrid Work (42 minutes)
In today's blended world of work, collaborating with teams across in-person and remote dynamics has made achieving a state of flow more difficult. When you worked exclusively in an office alongside other people, it was much easier to feed off of each other and use your shared passions to propel tasks forward. Now, on the contrary, you can use remote work to focus primarily on independent tasks. But how do you achieve a flow state when the lines between your work and home life have blurred? In this course, instructor Dr. Matthew Dubin shows why maintaining flow is crucial to your success, and how you can find your own routine even when your team is distributed or you're working remotely from home. Explore what it means to achieve a flow state and how it's been impacted by hybrid work. Learn strategies to better structure your time, approach your work, and increase team synergy so everyone gets the most of their everyday work experience—regardless of where they’re located.
Managing Virtual Teams (56minutes)
Working remotely has been on the rise for many years now, with research showing that hiring managers expect nearly half of all their workers to be working remotely over the next decade. While many trends feed into this way of organizing work, managing the work effectively will be key to the success of organizations globally. In this course, instructor Phil Gold provides managers with a clear approach for getting the most out of their remote teams. He zeros in on the key factors that will ensure productivity, engagement, and growth, as well as a manager’s role in building trust, removing roadblocks, nurturing connections with team members, and setting clear goals.
Managing Skills for Remote Leaders (1 hour, 12 minutes)
Being an effective manager can be challenging enough in a face-to-face setting, but as more people are shifting to working remotely, managers have to change their mindsets and methods. You can no longer pop over and connect with your team or have impromptu chats. In this course, leadership coach Dr. Mary Jean Vignone teaches how to be the best possible manager in a remote work environment. Mary Jean leverages her two decades of managing virtual teams into a 15-step program that shows how to create a sense of community, build an inclusive culture that spans virtual workspaces, and shares values, goodwill, and ideas. She shows you how to adapt your leadership style and voice to a virtual space, fostering a trusting and supportive environment that sets your remote teams up for success. While a virtual workplace can be a very enriching environment, it won't happen organically. After completing this course, you will be better prepared to navigate this changing work landscape.
Book Recommendations: Asynchronous Work Management
Book Recommendations: Asynchronous Work Management
Books
How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams To Do The Best Work of Their Lives
Authors: Brian Elliott, Sheela Subramanian, Helen Kupp, Stewart Butterfield
Summary: The way we work has changed. The era of toiling from nine-to-five, five-days-a-week in the office is now a relic of the past, and is being replaced by a better way―flexible work. But flexibility means a lot more than a day or two a week to “work from home”: 93% of your employees want more flexibility in when, not just where, they work. They want choice and they are leaving their roles to find it. The most successful leaders will go much further than offering occasional remote workdays―they will redesign every aspect of how work gets done, from defining how they measure organizational success to training their managers to make it happen. How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to Do The Best Work of Their Lives offers a blueprint for using flexible work to unlock the potential of your people. The book offers the steps necessary to building the new principles and guardrails to empower flexible, high-performing teams. And it teaches readers to lead with purpose, to manage and measure differently, and to believe that by letting go, they’ll get more back than they thought possible. How the Future Works explains how to:
Establish leadership principles, commitments, and outcomes for truly flexible teamwork
Measure and assess productivity in a flexible workplace
Reskill managers to ensure a level playing field for all employees
Implement the infrastructure necessary to make flexible work successful
Using original research from Future Forum, a consortium by Slack, and global case studies from leading companies such as Levi Strauss & Co., Genentech, Royal Bank of Canada, and IBM, How the Future Works offers concrete solutions and practical steps for building high functioning teams of talented, engaged people by providing them with the flexibility and choice they need to do their best work.
Effective Remote Work: For Yourself, Your Team, and Your Company 1st Edition
Author: Dr. James Stainer
Summary: Remote working is on the rise. Whether or not we are remote workers, it is likely we are all part of a global workforce. We need to learn to interact remotely, because we are all remote from someone in some way. Rather than simply simulating the way we'd usually work together via digital means, we have to learn new communication skills and adopt a different mindset in order to work remotely effectively, efficiently, and most importantly, healthily.
We'll start by getting you set up with the right equipment and habits. Then, we'll learn the mindset of treating everyone as remote, and conquer both synchronous and asynchronous communication. You'll learn how to produce amazing artifacts, how to communicate clearly, and how to manage yourself and your teams. Then we'll look at the bigger picture: from measuring the remote readiness of your workplace, to creating a handbook for your team, to exploring remote-first culture and tackling burnout and mental well-being.
Remote Works: Managing for Freedom, Flexibility, and Focus Kindle Edition
Authors: Ali Greene, Tamara Sanderson
Summary: Drawing on their years of experience working at remote companies DuckDuckGo and Automatic, plus dozens of interviews with leading experts, Ali Greene and Tamara Sanderson have written the ultimate playbook for managing remote teams. This book addresses challenges such as communicating effectively (with fewer meetings!), eliminating frustration over what tools to use, establishing team norms, and focusing on getting things done. You will learn how to work best remotely and create a workplace designed for freedom, flexibility, and focus. For decades, we've planned our lives around our work. Now it's time to intentionally design work to fit our lives.
The NOW Hello: What to Say | What to Do in the World of Work
Author: Tracy Hooper
Summary: In her wildly successful confidence playbook, The NEW Hello, Tracy Hooper taught people around the world what to say and what to do in the new world of work during a global pandemic. Now Tracy’s back, answering the big question: How do you carry yourself with confidence now? Welcome to The NOW Hello: What to Say | What to Do in the World of Work. If you are ready to:
Speak with influence and impact online or in person
Lead your remote or hybrid team confidently
Promote your accomplishments when you work from home
Communicate with coworkers, prospects, and clients with ease
Network with confidence in any setting
…The NOW Hello is for you.
In each chapter, Tracy will teach you new skills and techniques to support your remote, hybrid, or return-to-office work. Topics include camera confidence, words to lose and words to use, the NOW networking, confident conversations, the hybrid highway, and much more.
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