WORKINGREMOTELYOnline Course

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Remote Working:Setting Yourself and

Your Teams Up for SUCCESS

●Optimize working remotely, whether you’re new to remote work or not, and whether you’re leading a team or part of a team involving distributed team members. Discover how to be productive and stay connected when working from home or other remote environments.

●Learn how to effectively work remotely.

●Explore virtual communication tools for staying connected.

●The main Purpose of Working Remotely is to:

1● GET THINGS DONE

2● FINISH PROJECTS

3● REACH OUR GOALS

4● SERVE OUR CLIENTS

You don’t need to dress as formally as you might for work, but the sim-ple act of changing clothes serves as a signal that it’s time to wake up and get things done. “Don’t under-estimate the power of putting on clothes suitable for public viewing. It makes you feel good, confident and helps draw the line between being at work and being at home.

GET DRESSED

Just as you designate and sep-arate your physical workspace, you should be clear about when you’re working and when you’re not. You’ll get your best work done and be most ready to transition back to the office if you stick with your regular hours. Plus, if your role is collaborative, being on the same schedule as your coworkers makes everything much easier.

KEEP CLEARLY DEFINED WORKING HOURS

●The key to working from home is clear communication with your boss – and knowing exactly what’s expected of you. “Have really clear-set expectations for commu-nications day to day”.

●Set deadlines and deliverables

●Communicate any problems when they arise

●Share a report on your complet-ed tasks

CRANK UP THECOMMUNICATION

●If you don’t have a home office, do as much as you can to create an ad hoc, bespoke space exclusively for work. “Not having a well-equipped home office space when you begin remote working can cause a temporary decrease in pro-ductivity”.

●Your workspace doesn’t have to be a separate room but should be in a sepa-rate corner with a particular feel.

●If you’re working at a table you need to use outside of work or a room you spend a lot of time in, pack up your work each evening to make the end of your day de-cisive.

SET UP YOUR WORKSPACE

●Distraction is one of the big challenges facing peo-ple who work from home—especially people who ar-en’t used to it. “Your home is right in front of you, that means that whatever you’re usually thinking about getting home to after work is now with you. It’s hu-man to get distracted. But you need to be wary of how much you let yourself get distracted.

●Right now, one of the biggest distractions is the news. We suggest setting timers for any breaks you take. You don’t want to get too immersed and for-get that you’re at work altogether. If you’re someone who’s susceptible to getting distracted every time you get a news alert, turn your notifications off during the workday, too. The news will still be there anytime later.

AVOID INTERRUPTIONS

●When you do communicate with your boss and team from home, it helps if as much of it as possible can be “richer” communication that’s face-to-face and instant, use video calls, Skype, Zoom.

●Either before you make the switch or as soon as you know it’s hap-pening, come up with a plan that lays out expectations for how often you should check in and how you’ll convey any changes or new assign-ments to one another. Do the same with anyone you usually work collab-oratively with throughout the day.

COMMUNICATE!

Out of sight, out of mind can bea real problem for remote workers

●When the whole office suddenly starts working from home, you’re cutting off a lot of the casual social interactions you’re used to having throughout the day that help you feel less lonely and break up the monotony of work.

●Prolonged isolation could potentially im-pact morale and productivity.

●Combat this by talking with your cowork-ers throughout the day through Slack, calls, text, Zoom, or however your company com-municates

●We also suggest teams try to sustain a semblance of normalcy and camaraderie in unconventional ways, like virtual pizza par-ties or remote happy hours where people dial in and share cocktail on Slack or Skype.

AVOID FEELING ISOLATEDDON’T FORGET TO SOCIALIZE

GENERIC TIPS●Stay active and take breaks. It’s easy to forget to move.●Stay on a schedule for eating, exercising and sleeping.●Schedule meetings to “humanize communication.”●Some tech companies are offering these free remote work tools. https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/these-5-tech-companies-are-providing-free-remote-working-tools-during-coronavirus-outbreak.html

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