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Superior Leadership Training #2 The Online Manager

Productivity and accountability in online environments.

Video conferencing and remote work can reduce operational costs, increase productivity and create a flexible and agile workforce. Factual data support these claims. It also allows for life/work balance, a fundamental condition that many employees will not compromise.

But most managers believe remote workers are difficult to evaluate and cumbersome to train, get forgotten when tasks are assigned and will become "lazy" without proper supervision.

My workshop provides the mindset and the tools that allow managers to communicate and coordinate with their remote direct reports, forming alliances that promote productivity, loyalty, and job satisfaction without losing the ability to demand accountability.

laptop screen with a matrix of talking heads

Managers for the Future

Video conferencing was becoming a fundamental tool even before COVID-19 forced its adoption and threw it at the center of corporate work. Companies and employees discovered how convenient it can be, saving time and reducing the need for office space. In fact, many Millenial and Gen-Z workers don't want to give it up.

But many fear that video conferencing can affect productivity. That a collection of stamp-sized talking heads and just more dreaded PowerPoint presentations lack the gravitas and urgency of an in-person meeting and make it more difficult to detect those subtle behavioral cues that show that not every person in the meeting is on board with its resolutions.

My workshop will train your managers to engage a group and develop solid and sustainable relationships while requiring accountability. They will learn how to communicate with this audiovisual medium in a way that:

  1. Better handles attention,
  2. Aids understanding,
  3. Facilitates the adoption of new measures and procedures and
  4. Addresses compliance.

Psychology and the behavioral sciences have long studied attention, comprehension, persuasion, and group dynamics. It's time you use this knowledge to your advantage training the managers that you need.

Identification:

Name:

The Online Manager.

Length:

8 weeknights (Mon-Thurs)

Type:

Hands-on immersion with theoretical background.

Number of Participants:

9 – 12.

Modality:

On-line

Entry Level Behaviors:

By invitation only. Students must have satisfactorily completed the Commanding Group Communication workshop.

General Objective:

At the end of the workshop students should be able to design and lead effective and efficient on-line meetings aided by visual and/or audiovisual elements that addresses productivity, coordinates the team and demands accountability.

Specific Objectives:

  1. Understand the principles of human perception applied to communication aided by audiovisual material.
  2. Understand and apply the psychological principles of persuasion in the design of content.
  3. Identify opportunities for meaningful assessment of remote employee’s performance.
  4. Create a framework to address low metrics and provide proper feedback.
  5. Make a critical appraisal of own strengths and weaknesses in the deployment of managerial duties on-line.

Evaluation:

Participants will be assessed by the progress in their performance based on a standard protocol.

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If you need to promote first-line and mid-level managers that can communicate and coordinate with remote direct reports, demanding accountability but also promoting loyalty, job satisfaction, and productivity, then contact me. You'll be glad you did!

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