Five Individual Workshops For Remote and Hybrid Teams
With employees dispersed across locations and time zones in remote/hybrid teams, new and experienced leaders alike are facing challenges with adapting to these new working conditions. How can you ensure employees are on task, manage individual performance, and maintain team engagement? In these five workshops, you will explore how to enhance your skills as a leader of a remote/hybrid team by raising your self-awareness, creating alignment and clear expectations, communicating what success looks like for your employees, and maintaining team and organizational culture.
Who Should Attend:
Leaders managing remote and hybrid teams that include employees who work from home, in multiple locations, time zones, and/or shifts.
These programs are also popular as an onsite for your organization!
Attend these 2-hour live online workshops!
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Laying the Foundation for Team Results
Remote and hybrid work are here to stay. Which of your leadership skills can you leverage, and which do you need to add? What does your team need, and how will you operate differently? In this session, you’ll gain tools to unlock your team’s purpose and align their goals with the organization’s. You’ll also learn how to create team commitments, providing clarity and purpose to succeed.
Pre-class training (30-minute video): Building Resilience: Finding Your Strengths and the Capacity to Thrive
Class instruction (2-hour live online workshop):
- Compare and contrast skills leaders need to lead in-person versus hybrid teams.
- Determine your role in setting overall expectations for how your team interacts.
- Plan how your team will create a team purpose statement and ground rules to promote clarity and alignment.
Post-class action steps: With your team, create a team purpose statement and ground rules for interaction.
Post-class training (30-minute video): Building Team Resilience
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Defining Employee Success and Managing Expectations
How do you measure success if you can’t see what your team is doing? In this session, you’ll start at the beginning, reevaluating your team’s performance standards, and where, when, and how their work gets done. Through this clarity comes empowerment with accountability.
Pre-class training (30-minute video): Unleash the Power of Teams – Increasing Effective Decision Making
Class instruction (2-hour live online workshop):
- Identify attributes that help employees succeed in remote or hybrid work environments.
- Apply a performance management model to decide which standards need to change or remain.
- Apply strategies for balancing business needs and employee needs in where, when, and how work is performed.
Post-class action steps: Communicate performance standards, plan development actions, and introduce a flexible work arrangement proposal.
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Building Trust from a Distance
Trust, the foundation of all relationships, may feel harder to build when you and your team are in separate locations and perhaps working different hours. In this session, you will explore strategies and create a plan to intentionally build trust across your team. The stakes are high: Trust is hard to win and easy to lose.
Pre-class training (30-minute eLearning): Modes of Communication
Classroom instruction (2-hour live online workshop):
- Identify key behaviors that build trust in-person and virtually.
- Explain the importance of inclusion and empathy for a remote and hybrid team.
- Create transparency around everyone’s work to build trust, relationships, and motivation.
Post-class action steps: With your team, conduct two trust-building activities, facilitate an inclusion discussion, and implement any necessary changes.
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Facing Challenging Conversations on Camera
Challenging conversations either build trust or tear it down. They’re called challenging for a reason. In this session, you’ll explore the ingredients to a successful outcome: self-reflection, careful planning, live practice, and applying emotional intelligence. You have one shot to get this right.
Pre-class training (30-minute video): Emotional Intelligence: Evolve as a Leader
Classroom instruction (2-hour live online workshop):
- Determine whether a difficult conversation is worth having, and if so, how and when?
- Differentiate between what someone says versus what they mean.
- Prepare and practice a challenging conversation in a virtual platform.
Post-class action steps: Conduct challenging conversation(s) as needed with affected employees.
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Fostering Team Collaboration and Connections
Why are two (or 12) heads better than one? Collaboration greatly increases productivity, drives innovation, reaps great results—and can be fun along the way. In this session, you’ll identify team behaviors that drive true connections and cohesiveness. You’ll also practice team interactions for all types of teams: in person, remote, or hybrid. Collaboration is key!
Pre-class training (30-minute video): Leading Effective Meetings: Virtual, In-Person, or Hybrid
Classroom instruction (2-hour live online workshop):
- Identify attributes and behaviors that lead to team success.
- Demonstrate virtual collaboration activities that can be used in further team encounters.
- Explain benefits of a collaborative team to the team member, the leader, and the organization.
Post-class action steps: With your team, do one Take-5 activity and lead one collaboration activity.
Post-class training (30-minute video): Creating a Culture of Positivity Within Your Team
