5-Session Course

  • 1

    Getting Started

    • Questions and Answers
  • 2

    The Challenges and Opportunities of The Dislocated Workforce

    • An introduction to the course, alignment on objectives and participant needs, coupled with a wide-ranging overview of what changes for teams when they become dispersed into a WFH environment.
  • 3

    Policy, Platform and Protocol Essentials

    • Critical choices face the newly-WFH organization, including a whole new set of decisions regarding hygienic workplace factors such as safety, work hours, availability, tools and communications choices.
  • 4

    Synchronizing Teams and Status

    • Dislocated teams and their managers face new challenges in replacing the “ambient” status and communications capabilities of the shared workplace. We’ll teach a lightweight version of our high-efficiency daily check-in methods that is suitable for virtual
  • 5

    Tracking Progress and Personal Accountability

    • Remote workers can feel harder to manage because work progress transparency is often much lower; this often includes the sense that some workers may take advantage of the lower level of direct supervision. We’ll teach the use of a “reporting kanban” to im
  • 6

    Creating Alignment and Understanding Within Teams

    • Communications quality drops dramatically in a WFH environment, especially in the case of work assignments that involve teams (kick-offs or handoffs). Verbal and written communications work especially poorly when not supported properly with a collaborativ