New Skills for Working Remotely

Webinar to develop Virtual Work Skills employees need and answer questions about working remotely.

Working remotely seems like a great idea for many employees. Avoiding commutes, being home with the kids and taking care of other “home/life” issues, working at home sounds good. But working at home and being a virtual team member creates special challenges.

This interactive webinar is designed to help remote workers be great employees and teammates in the new reality of co-location. Participants will learn the essential skills employees need to be effective in their job. This 1-hour training not only answers questions about working remotely, it helps overcome the challenges of virtual work and remove drawbacks of teaming virtually.

Key content covered in the webinar: 

• Building Trust – an essential element of virtual work

  • Are you really working?
  • Cognitive vs. affective trust
  • Maintaining trust

• Virtual Employee Expectations

  • Communicating Expectations - Be upfront and clear
  • Be explicit about expectations
    • Expectations of you
    • Expectations of team members
    • Expectations of your boss

• Virtual Team Communication

  • Setting guidelines for: Video-chats, emails, texts, voicemails and more
  • Check in frequency and methods
  • Social networking in a virtual team

• Making Virtual Meetings Work

  • Challenges
  • Overcoming the challenges

Working remotely and Virtual teaming is here to stay. This new reality presents unique challenges to high performance. For future success, businesses must ensure employees have the essential skills to be effective remote employees and virtual teammates.   

Take advantage of our low-cost Instructor-led webinar and onsite training for all employees and management personnel.

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Employee Development Training Course Directory

Soft-Skills training to improve job performance, employee engagement and general business skills.

Onsite Training, Webinars and Online courses tailored to meet your needs.

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Alliance provides onsite instructor-led training as well as webinars and online courses that enhance the skills of managers, supervisors, leaders, and the general workforce.

Offering a wide variety of soft-skill training for employees at all levels of the organization, from executive to first time managers and supervisors and front-line staff, our onsite seminars and workshops have helped thousands of employees be more successful in their role.

All of our employee training programs are highly interactive with learning activities designed around adult learning principles. 

The interactive exercises, cases, discussions and practice sessions used in the training are tailored to your organization and your learner’s level of experience. We make the learning experience “real world” to ensure learner engagement. Our goal is to maximize the transfer of learning from the classroom to on-the-job application.

Employees Drive the Success of Your Company. 

Make Certain They Have the Soft Skills to Be Successful.

Every company has managers and executives that are essential to their company. What is going to happen when they leave? Who will take their place? Will they have the skills you want and they need to succeed? The employee development training offered by Alliance Training provides every company a way to motivate your top performers to become tomorrow’s leaders.

Whether your learners are just beginning their career, with limited experience, or have been in their role for some time with little formal training, the skills developed in these soft-skill courses will help them be a better business partner. 

Proven Training Solutions: Available in Onsite, Webinar and Online Training Formats

Driven largely by technology, change is coming faster than many companies can cope with, putting new pressures on employees and resources. Rapid change requires a skilled, knowledgeable workforce with employees who are adaptive, flexible, and focused on the future. This requires employee training and professional development at all levels of the organization.

Beyond rapid change, many employees are faced with multiple bosses, team and matrix management, direct and instant links between coworkers and your clients. All this adds up to increased pressure to communicate, interact appropriately, manage workload pressures, and balance home and career stress effectively. It is imperative that employees develop the interpersonal and soft-skills to be effective.

Alliance offers specially selected employee training and development seminars to improve employee success at all levels. Please review our list of courses. If you have comments regarding these training seminars or suggestions for future course development, give us a call at 877-385-5515.

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Management Essentials for Administrative Professionals

Develop the critical skills administrative professionals need to manage people, projects, priorities, and time!

This seminar develops skills to help executive assistants and office managers build management skills and develop a "take-charge" approach to better manage multiple bosses, manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.

Who Should Attend

Administrative assistants, executive assistants, office managers, secretaries, support staff and anyone responsible for coordinating, managing or being an effective member of an office team.

Training Benefits

• Bring out the best in other people
• Turn conflicts into cooperative partnerships
• Secrets to handling multiple projects and multiple bosses
• Practical techniques and shortcuts for getting more done in less time
• Project a take-charge image that wins respect and recognition
• Increase your effectiveness, productivity and reduce your stress levels
• Collaborating through technology
  
  

Overview of Concepts and Deliverables Provided

• Gain respect and credibility to get your ideas accepted by management
• Develop an effective problem-solving plan
• Communicate with confidence
• Use your style to cope with stress
• Be proactive even when you’re not the one in charge
• Avoid the reactive trap
• Develop everyday negotiation skills
• Make good decisions to manage multiple priorities
• Overcome procrastination and minimize interruptions
• Be more mentally tough
• Organize for success
• Enhance your productivity through technology
• Neutralize the impact of difficult people