Leading and flourishing in remote and virtual work settings
“To make virtual teamwork work … move your team to a new set of behaviours, not just to a new generation of technology, with human engagement as the first priority”
Keith Ferrazzi, author and team performance specialist
Whether you are studying, working in a dispersed operation, or committing to a permanent change to hybrid or all remote (WFH) practices since the lockdowns of 2020-21, we are all having to adopt an increasingly ‘virtual’ relationship with our colleagues, teams and community friends.
But we are also increasingly aware of the heightened risk of burnout, isolation and communication breakdown, and the lost ‘informal’ moments that improve innovation and belonging, and provide the ‘micro-healing’ moments we hardly noticed, until they were gone! We worry that our ability to do difficult work, like performance management, or dealing with conflict, is too difficult without physical presence.
We have all had to learn how to COPE with virtual working and leading – but now is the time to learn how to be GREAT at it, so that you can flourish in the ‘new normal’.
This course will enable you to:
- Understand the substantial differences in leading virtually, when compared to co-located leadership and working.
- Master formal and informal interactions with confidence.
- Overcome the key challenges, such as loss of concentration and attention, miscommunication and conflict.
- Build sustainable team connectivity and trust, for improved wellbeing and health.
- Take charge of your own presence, voice and style, and make choices about how you communicate your leadership authority.
- Enable others to join you in creating a caring, empowered community.
Alumni resources
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VL – What changes when we lead ‘virtually’?
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VL – Get ready to learn and lead in the virtual space
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VL – Be fully present at your best
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VL – Checklists, tips and hygiene factors for productive virtual meetings
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VL – Stay connected when remote – tips and tech for community productivity and social health
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Understand human needs to build trust
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Trust and trust-building
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Dialogue and generativity (draft)
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VL – Video or audio for virtual meetings?
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The gift of skilful listening
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VL – Personal presence and voice
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The art of the question
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Introducing growth mindset
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Growth mindset ‘under fire’ – stress, anxiety and threat
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VL – Learn from 2020/21 – Why you need to mitigate risks of burnout and lost productivity/connection
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Boosting cognitive, emotional and social resourcefulness (draft)
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Your ‘bounce-forward’ toolkit to share with your team (draft)
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Move to the third course in this series to develop your remote and hybrid workplace leadership further
This resource package offers
Lasting access to latest material
As part of your Alumni membership, you now have lasting access to this resource package.
Each lesson here will be updated regularly, and it will always represent the most recent, and useful, version of the contents.
Dip into it, follow your interest and different needs as a leader and learner from time to time.
Different types of media to suit all needs
Each lesson will mix videos to watch, with material to read.
Plus there are downloadable handouts, worksheets, templates and checklists to print and take away, and keep for future reference.
If not, the first thing you need to do is REGISTER – you can do that yourself via the big button below.
Then, just come back to this page, or select CONTACT US from the main menu, and drop us a note to say who you are, and that you would like to be enrolled. We will take it from there.
Within 48 hours you will have full access to this package.
Frequently asked questions
How long can I access these resources?
This pack of resources will be accessible to you for as long as you/your organisation is working with us.
In addition, in each lesson there are also PDFs, tools, products and exercises, that we think you will want to keep – you can download them, or print them.
Can I commission custom courses for my organisation?
Many of our programmes and short (bite-size) courses have been originally developed especially for a client – and, where appropriate, then adapted for a broader audience and turned into an ‘open’ programme. It is our clients around the world that ‘pull’ new content and commission what we go on to build, to meet their needs at any given time.
If you would like to either curate a custom programme from our existing stock, or you have an area of new content that you would like us to look at, just contact us and we can help.