Successful Virtual Working is a very timely subject to study, which arose from the recent pandemic. Support your team members by helping them develop the key skills they need to work virtually in a successful manner. This course will also help employers to plan for virtual working successfully.
Here at Make Me a Plan, we believe that self-development should be as flexible and tailored as possible. We’ve created everything you need to supply you with all the information required to ensure your (and others) wellbeing at work, this is all loaded in the Document Zone. We recognise that different people learn in different ways, so we’ve supplied visual and audio version of the course.
There aren’t any rules: you can read all of the materials, then take the tests if you favour intensive learning. If you prefer to focus for a shorter amount of time, you can study one module at a time and then progress to that module’s test.
Course Format: Downloadable PDF Documents plus Downloadable Audio File version
Time Needed to Complete:
3 – 5 hours
Who Would Benefit
- Staff working in a team
- Team leaders wishing to train their staff on virtual working
- Team leaders creating induction materials for new staff
Our Successful Virtual Working course is perfect for employees, especially those working within a hybrid or virtual team, looking to improve their productivity at work for both themselves and for their colleagues.
This course could also offer valuable information for a team leader hoping to provide training to their team on how to look successfully manage virtual working, and looking for some tips to improve their staff experience and lead their team towards better workplace health and performance.
Course Objectives
Virtual working became a way of life for many people during the pandemic and now is the time to take stock, assess pros and cons and put a plan in place to ensure employees and employers are getting the most out of flexible working. This course will guide you through the fundamentals of Successful Virtual Working, help to boost your productivity, support you to manage your motivation and help you to create an effective virtual working routine.
Duration
We would estimate this course takes between 3-5 hours, with each module taking around 35 minutes. We would highly recommend also allowing some time after each module to identify ways to apply the knowledge to your own situation, as this is a great way to get a deeper understanding of the information we have provided.
Course Content
Introduction
An overview of what the course aims are, and what you can expect.
Module 1 – Principles of Virtual Working
Learn about virtual working and what it means to be working within a team but usually from a different location, this most commonly means to be working from home but can also include various other working locations such as site work.
Module 2 – Virtual Wellbeing
Learn how virtual working requires us to create a whole new type of daily routine. How you can structure space into a virtual office. This kind of a set up allows our brains to recognise that it is time to activate “work mode”.
Module 3 – Professionalism and Confidentiality
Join us as we run through all things GDPR related and how you should think of every piece of information as strictly confidential.
Module 4 – Productivity and Questions Answered
Throughout this module, you will get a deep understanding of when we are virtually working, we have more flexibility to establish working hours that work for us. More so than employees who are office or onsite based with restricted working hours.
Module 5 – The Next Evolution
Get a deep understanding from what you have learned from this course, and probably by now from personal experience, you have seen there are many benefits and challenges to virtual working. A benefit could include feeling calmer and less stressed.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the fundamentals of Successful Virtual Working.
- Create healthy habits within your working day
- Boost your productivity and how communication skills come into effect.
- Utilise a useful bank of knowledge on Virtual Working Wellbeing optimising your work environment for greater productivity
- And finally have the tools to improve your professionalism and create a virtual working routine.
Tests & Certification
At the end of each module, you will have the opportunity to take a quiz to back up the knowledge you have just learned.
For each quiz you complete successfully, you will receive a soft copy certificate (printable PDF) verifying your studies and at the end once you have completed the entire course you will get an official graduation certificate from Make Me A Plan.
During your course you will also receive achievement badges along the way, to mark your progress and help you celebrate your goals as you reach them.