Team Training: Advanced Remote Team Leadership and Management

Overview

Remote working is going to be a central feature for all organisations for the foreseeable future, therefore developing better engagement, leadership and management strategies now can help your team thrive in the future.

This virtual Advanced Remote Team Leadership and Management course helps your organisation improve policies and processes that support your teams, foster productivity, and avoid staff burn out. Learn how to identify behavioural issues that arise in remote work environments and deploy emotional intelligence, empathy, and coaching techniques to optimise performance.

Through a range of workshops and public sector focused case studies, this course provides you with a suite of advanced tools and long-term skills to remotely manage people and relationships effectively.

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Learning Outcomes

Learn how to develop a flexible and emotionally intelligent management style
Gain the skills you need to excel at remote communication with staff, to inspire, engage and manage effectively
Discover ways of running highly productive online meetings
Foster a strong team spirit despite distance working through coaching conversations
Develop a more effective remote working policy that supports staff and optimises performance
Understand how to manage increased cybersecurity and data protection risks when working remotely

All the Understanding ModernGov courses are Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certified, with signed certificates available upon request for event.

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To speak to someone about a bespoke training programme, please contact us:

0800 542 9414
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Agenda

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09:00 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 10:00

Trainer’s Welcome and Introductions

10:00 - 10:45

Remote and Hybrid Working: Manage Risks Successfully

Benchmark your existing remote working practices against other organisations

Discuss and overcome the challenges – for employees, for organisation
Consider potential practical, privacy and security issues
Manage increased cybersecurity and data protection risks when working remotely
Map out your remote working journey: past, present and future
Develop an outline remote working policy

10:45 - 11:00

Morning Break

11:00 - 11:45

Excel at Managing and Leading in a Remote Environment

The difference between management and leadership, how to achieve both
Know the key leadership styles available to you, and when to use them
Understand the need to be flexible and emotionally intelligent in your management approaches and leadership styles
Identify areas of your behaviour and style that require development, and how to improve
Performance management, managing difficult conversations, giving praise remotely

11:45 - 12:30

Excel at Remote Communication with Staff

Replicate the office – or not? Mapping processes and relationships to replicate or change
Consider software options, tools, and techniques to maximise strong remote working
Ensure optimum communication with team members
Negotiate remotely, making clear decisions and carrying them out
Combat isolation and loneliness through building community

12:30 - 13:15

Successful Remote Meetings

Consider why we meet at all
Explore technology options for remote meetings
Discover the rules of remote meetings: how to be more effective on a call than in a room
Understand essential preparation for the chair, including agenda and time management
Discuss the challenges and opportunities of remote meetings
Take away transferable knowledge and skills to apply to your teams and organisation

13:15 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:15

Reflection Session

The trainer will review the day’s learning and the next stages of the course
Delegates will have time to ask questions and share views with one another

14:15 - 15:00

Coaching Conversations: Using Emotional Intelligence

Understand the value of the coaching style of leadership
Review the coaching process: how it works, and how it works remotely
Gain techniques to avoid staff burn out
Use coaching conversations with audio or video technology to support team members

15:00 - 15:15

Afternoon Break

15:15 - 16:00

Workshop: Develop a More Robust Remote Working Management Development Plan

Develop your own list of priorities, and share them for feedback from the tutor and the group. Refine this into a plan over time: what now, what next, and where to next. Build an action plan to implement at work.

16:00 - 16:15