How to Manage Remote Team Members

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- How to Manage Remote Team Members -

Course Overview

The workforce is changing rapidly. An increasing number of employees work off-site, by choice (theirs or their employer’s) or by necessity. While some of your employees may work at home or close to their onsite team, others may be scattered around the country or the globe. Given the increasingly global nature of today’s organisations as well as improvements in technology that facilitate virtual collaboration and a workforce that insists on more flexibility and independence, this trend is likely to keep gaining momentum.

This training is about helping you to improve your ability to manage off-site employees. By the end of the training, you will increase your ability to ensure your team is cohesive and productive. You will also learn how to avoid costly, time-co

Key Learning Outcomes

Discuss the benefits and challenges of off-site working relationships for employees, managers and organisations
Explain the importance of successfully managing off-site employees
Identify the factors and tools that must be in place for an offsite employee to be effective
Employ strategies that help offsite employees stay on track and that deal with common problems faced by managers
Follow a set of best practices for successfully managing off-site employees

Topics Covered

Professional, personal and financial advantages of working offsite
Core characteristics and abilities of successful remote workers and their managers
Categories and examples of jobs that require employees’ presence onsite

How to establish mutual trust with off-site employees and keep them in the loop
How to thoroughly prepare employees to work remotely and set them up for success
Warning signs of an unproductive off-site worker and how to deal with this situation.

Why Learn Online?

Learning new skills online can be perfect for organisations and employees for the following reasons:

You only have one or a few employees to train and develop (on a specific training topic)
Getting a trainer to your location could be difficult or cost-prohibitive
The employees you want to train work from home or are part-time
You don’t have the resources to cover for the employees you want to be trained, so allowing them to the training online means they won’t need to leave their work areas
Your training budget is limited, and online learning is more cost-effective
You want your people trained in a wide range of skills this year,’s online learning provides much better value to get everyone involved in learning and developing themselves.