Duration: 1 Day
Learning Objectives
- Understand the nature of home working
- Know how manage the challenges of home working
- Communication skills for home workers
Course Content
- Working from home or remotely advantages and disadvantages – including the personal impact for the home-worker and their family, dealing with perceptions from office-based workers, busting myths about home-working.
- Current trends in home working.
- Making the adjustment to home working – explaining the benefits (not everyone likes to work from home or remotely)
- Practical considerations: having the space to work, H+S issues, getting organised, planning, dealing with distractions from family and friends, feeling lonely, missing out on office communications, gossip or social activities, missing out on contact with key stakeholders
- Communications for home-workers: making sure you keep in contact. Best practice for home-workers using e-mails, telephones, conference calls, social-media possibilities (benefits and risks).
- Scheduling for home-workers: making sure that meetings and appointments can still be attended.
- Time-management for home-workers: ensuring a home-work balance is maintained. This can be difficult as work can encroach on home-life much easier with a home-worker.
- The psychology of ‘social distance’ within the work-place. The work of Tsedal Neeley, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Harvard Business School.
- The use of OneDrive to share files to ensure no bandwidth issues