Working Remotely
Learn to be happy, healthy, and productive working remotely and as a member of a virtual team.
Learn to be happy, healthy, and productive working remotely and as a member of a virtual team.
Before You Start: Navigating on Thinkific
Welcome to Working Remotely
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Introduction and Definitions
Fun Fact: How Far is Remote?
The Benefits of Remote Work
Concerns About Working Remotely
A Little Data
Introduction and Overview
Part I: Characteristics of Successful Remote Workers
1.1.1 Exercise: Assess Your Suitability for Remote Work
1.1.2 Your Assessment
1.1.3 Deep Dive: Addressing Challenges with Flexibility and Adaptability
1.1.4 Deep Dive: Addressing Challenges with Communication
1.1.5 Deep Dive: Addressing Challenges with Organization and Discipline
1.1.6 Deep Dive: Addressing Challenges with Initiative and Problem-solving
1.1.7 Deep Dive: Addressing Challenges with Patience and Empathy
Part II: Conditions for Success
1.2.1 Building Your Schedule
1.2.2 Managing Transitions
1.2.3 Space and Set-up
Cartoon-Space
1.2.4 Boundaries
1.2.5 Managing Your Boundaries
Quiz: Name That Interruption
1.2.6 Advocacy
1.2.7 Evaluating Your Conditions for Success
1.2.8 Survey: Conditions for Success
Part III: Effective Communication
1.3.1 The Elements of Communication
1.3.2 Start with the End in Mind
1.3.3 Consider the Context
1.3.4 Choose Your Channel
1.3.5 Compose Content and Consider the Code
1.3.6 Reduce Noise
1.3.7 Deliver Your Message
1.3.8 Solicit Feedback
1.3.9 Exercise: Planning a Communication
Communication Quiz
Create Your Action Plan
Introduction & Overview
Concerns About Remote Teamwork
Part I: Trust
2.1.1. What is Trust?
2.1.2 Four Dimensions of Trust
2.1.3 Connection
2.1.4 Competence
2.1.5 Reliability
2.1.6 Integrity
Exercise: Evaluating Trust
2.1.7 Compensating in Virtual Teams
2.1.8 Deep Dive: Proactively Building Connection
Toolkit: Owners Manual
2.1.9 Deep Dive: Proactively Establishing Competence
2.1.10 Deep Dive: Proactively Demonstrating Reliability
2.1.11 Deep Dive: Proactively Oozing Integrity
2.1.12 Thought Experiment: The Mother-in-Law Effect
Exercise: Re-earning Trust
2.1.13 Trust Hacks: How to Trust Someone Again (1)
2.1.13 Trust Hacks: How to Trust Someone Again (2)
Quiz: Trust on Remote Teams
Survey: Trust on Your Team
Part II: Remote Collaboration
2.2.1 Effective Collaboration
2.2.2 Information Richness
Quick Tip: Prioritize Sound Quality over Video Quality
2.2.4 Emojis--Not Just for Kids Anymore
2.2.5 Timeliness of Your Collaboration
2.2.6 Synchronous Collaboration
2.2.7 Asynchronous Collaboration
2.2.8 Choosing Between Synchronous or Asynchronous
2.2.9 Tools for Collaboration
Quick Tip: Screen Recording
2.2.10 Research Findings--Video On or Off?
2.2.11 Clarifying Intentions
(Not So) Fun Fact: Negativity Bias
2.2.12 Staying in Sync
2.2.13 The Importance of Mutual Knowledge
2.2.14 How Do You Interpret Silence?
Part III: Addressing Conflict
2.3.1 Unseen Work
2.3.2 Conflicts in Virtual Teams
2.3.3 Step 1: Prepare for the Conversation
2.3.4 Step 2: Give a Heads Up
2.3.5 Step 3: Choose Your Channel
2.3.6 Step 4: Create a Cheat Sheet
2.3.7 Step 5: Deliver the Message
2.3.8 Step 6: Follow-up
2.3.9 Step 7: Reconnect
Fun Fact: You Can Hear a Smile
Remote Teamwork Wrap Up