There are strong indications that, for many organisations, working from home will continue irrespective of the impact of COVID-19. This one day online workshop is designed to help you to adapt to managing teams who may work in different geographical locations from you.
By the end of this course you will have:
- Considered how to manage a team you may not physically see from one month to the next
- Explored techniques for communicating with remote workers and teams
- Reviewed how to monitor and evaluate their work without it seeming as if you re ‘spying’ on them
- Acquired hints and tips on how to evaluate equally those employees who work in the office and those who work from home
- Analysed how to decide promotion when some members of the team are in the office and others are at home
- Developed a plan to recruit new team members who will work remotely
Agenda
- The challenge of remote working
- Adapting your management style to remote workers
- The channels of communication appropriate to remote working
- Developing a virtual communication style
- Establishing virtual disciplines
- Career management of remote vs present workers
- How to recruit remote workers
Speakers
Mr Geoff Marsh,
Managing Director ,
Dansam LtdGeoff Marsh is Managing Director of Dansam Ltd a training company that began in September 1999. He started his career as a presenter in 1986 on the Lloyds Bank’s ‘Customer First’ Programme.
This was one of the largest series of roadshow workshops in the world at that time. The programme was seen by approximately 70,000 staff. Today Geoff is the Managing Director of Dansam Ltd. Geoff is an international trainer and presenter with a particular expertise in the financial services sector and his clients include organisations such as BNP Paribas, HSBC, Barclays Wealth, Lloyds Bank IPB, Macquairie, Unigestion, Taib Securities, Coutts, Asquith, Cheviot Asset Management, Ernst & Young, Nationwide, Fleming Family and Partners and Rothschilds.
He has also worked with Robert Bosch Ltd, Wessex Water, Sun Microsystems, Scottish & Newcastle Breweries, London Underground, Forte Hotels, The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councils (EPSRC), The Zoological Society Of London, Interserve Project Services Ltd and outside of the UK with United Airlines, Qatar Airways, Rohm & Haas, Serono Pharmaceuticals, Union Bancaire Privee and Unichem and the Bank of Georgia
He has been a visiting lecturer on the Swiss Banking School’s (Now Swiss Finance Institute) executive IWEMBA (International Wealth Management Executive MBA) programme. He has also worked with the Financial Times on their Wealth Management Academy Series. He is the author and co-author of several books including, A Sixty Minute Guide to Powerful Presentations, A Sixty Minute Guide to Developing Key Accounts, A Sixty Minute Guide To Franchising, A Sixty Minute Guide to Direct Mail, all for the Sixty Minute Business Book Company.
Who Should Attend
This online workshop is for anyone required to manage a geographically diverse team. It is designed for professionals who want to acquire tips and techniques for adapting their management style to this relatively new way of working.
