From the course: Developing Adaptable Employees

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Develop and support remote workers

Develop and support remote workers

From the course: Developing Adaptable Employees

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Develop and support remote workers

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- Since an increasing amount of work will inevitably be conducted through virtual work groups, with people operating part or full-time in some other geographical location, you need to help those remote workers to learn the new skillset for virtual work. Remote work is an inevitable trend as work continues to become unbundled, with tasks being dynamically distributed between team members. Now, many people take to this opportunity naturally, intuitively understanding the most effective ways to operate remotely. Other workers, not so much. It's much harder for everyone involved when remote work requires a lot of oversight from a manager or a team member. Adaptive workers who want to thrive in remote settings need to learn a variety of techniques to improve their ability to perform their work. There are four critical steps for creating the conditions under which those remote workers can be the most successful. The first is developing the right agreements between the worker and the manager…

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