COVID-19: Working From Home Confidently and Competently

Why Should You Attend:

If you have rarely or never worked from home, the first days or even weeks can be disorienting. Social isolation for many is even worse than the lack of immediate access to teammates, supervisors, stakeholders, and non-human resources. Even in this digital age, making sure you have the right office equipment and supplies can be frustrating. If your job was not technology intensive in the office setting, suddenly having to deal with a balky printer, overloaded Internet connection, or novel app or software adds to the stress of functioning outside your comfort zone.

This webinar will explore all these areas. The content is based on what we have learned over many years from working from home and building on the experience of tens of thousands of people worldwide who have been doing this for over a decade or more. Learn how to set up your home office, avoid the predictable pitfalls, and maximize your results, while making the most of the unique setting.

If you are managing people in this new environment, learn how to develop work plans and conduct review and evaluation sessions optimized for this situation. What you learn can be applied once you return to a more familiar environment. Turn the anti-teamwork situation into one which encourages engagement through virtual team building. Develop the strong sense of accountability any team needs to function through interactive virtual team sessions. Learn to thrive in the working-from-home world, not just survive until things return to "normal." Discover and enjoy the benefits of working from home. Decide which elements you want to maintain.

Learning Objectives:

A result of this webinar, individuals, teams, and managers will be able to:

• Set up and manage a home office; avoid pitfalls; maximize benefits
• Establish clear guidelines to separate work and family life
• Work efficiently and effectively as an individual
• Build a cohesive team virtually
• Manage a team working from home, including planning, reviewing progress, and evaluating performance
• Establish more efficient processes and improve performance
• Incorporate the best approaches from working from home into work in the office and vice versa

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Assess your strengths and challenges working from home
• What are the common pitfalls, distractions, and stressors of working from home? Which ones need actions on your plan?
• Guidelines for separating home and work life
• Set up a productive home office
• Manage work strategically
• Optimize technology use
• Avoid work-from-home temptations and traps
• Develop accountability with teammates or team you manage
• Create your full transition and mission driven work plan
• Enjoy working from home

Who Will Benefit:

• Anyone working from home for the first time
• Anyone managing someone working from home for the first time
• Anyone with limited experience working from home
• Anyone with limited experience managing "distant" workforce
• HR personnel developing work-from-home guidelines

From: All organizations, public, private and nonprofit sectors, asking people to work from home

Rebecca Staton Reinstein
President, Advantage Leadership Inc

Rebecca Staton-Reinstein, Ph.D. and president of Advantage Leadership, Inc., has been both an accidental, untrained Project Manager and a trained one. She has managed a wide variety of projects and understands the pain of juggling too many tasks, relying on others for information and work with no authority to manage them, and struggling to keep too many stakeholders from spoiling the project. She has developed project management programs for her clients around the world. She developed project management programs specifically for Human Resource professionals for a number of webinar providers. She has delivered project management seminars for organizations on four continents. Rebecca works with leaders who want to improve bottom-line results through strategic planning, engaged employees, and delighted customers. She is the author of several books on strategic leadership and planning, a legacy professional member of the National Speakers Association, and has been honored by organizations around the world in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

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