Hybrid and Remote Work
What are the most frequent problems
Reduced productivity, difficulties in managing priorities and oneself in time
Barriers to communication, insufficient information and support from the manager
Impeded cooperation between teams, which start resembling a silo
Difficulties in organizing the work of different groups of employees (online/office, temporary employees, freelancers etc.)
Problems related to limited control over working time and micromanagement
Frustration arising from isolation and lack of direct social contacts
We understand that every organization is different. Therefore we always perform an in-depth analysis of the situation and adjust the solutions such that they satisfy the needs of your business
Our solutions
Remote and Hybrid Work Management
Remote and Hybrid Work Management
This workshop is oriented towards maintaining or enhancing effectiveness in the situation of remote or hybrid work. The participants:
Become aware of the key competencies needed for managing a remote team
Become familiar with the opportunities and risks involved in remote work as well as benefits and challenges from the viewpoints of the employee and the employer
Learn how to select the management manner and communication style depending on employees’ predispositions and skills related to remote work
Practice the ability to recognize employees’ predispositions and skills needed for remote work
Become familiar with the rules supporting remote cooperation
Learn to formulate a team remote working charter
Thanks to the application of this solution, the managers:
Lead remote teams more effectively using online tools
Introduce rules of remote functioning
Improve their competencies needed for managing a remote or hybrid team
Recognize the present quality of remote team management and know which areas need to be improved
Can diagnose employees’ predispositions and skills needed for remote work and their motivations
Support employees in their day-to-day challenges arising from the specific nature of remote or hybrid work more effectively
Motivating in Remote and Hybrid Work
Motivating in Remote and Hybrid Work
Maintaining motivation is one of the key challenges in remote and hybrid work. The workshop participants:
Become familiar with factors that strengthen and weaken motivation in remote or hybrid work
Analyze the costs resulting from decreased employee motivation
Learn what motivation is and what determines its quality
Become familiar with factors that strengthen and weaken motivation in remote or hybrid work
Analyze the costs resulting from decreased employee motivation
Learn what motivation is and what determines its quality
Thanks to the application of this solution, the managers:
Develop communication skills in the context of four management functions
Become familiar with tools required for conducting directing and motivating conversations
Learn to conduct effective conversations in the fundamental areas of the leader’s or the manager’s activity
Can adjust the communication manner to the needs and abilities of their employees
Use the extended communication behavior set, increase their flexibility, and develop the skill of handling everyday conversations with employees
Effective Cooperation in a Remote and Hybrid Team
Effective Cooperation in a Remote and Hybrid Team
When some team members work remotely, cooperation is a challenge even in experienced, well-established teams. The workshop participants:
Become familiar with the present modes of action in the situation of remote or hybrid work
Learn about the influence of hybrid and remote work on the quality of cooperation between team members
Become familiar with communication challenges involved in remote or hybrid work
Recognize communication areas and their substitutes in virtual reality
Become familiar with the rules and good practices applying to remote meetings
Practice the role of facilitator of such meetings
Thanks to the application of this solution, the managers:
Contribute to improved communication
Improve the quality of cooperation in permanent and project teams
Apply good practices of hybrid teamwork
Can conduct and facilitate remote and hybrid project meetings
Enhance the effectiveness of online meetings
Effective Remote Meetings
Effective Remote Meetings
How to avoid comments such as “what was that about?” and “I don’t know what I’m supposed to do” after a meeting The workshop participants:
Learn how to prepare for remote meetings
Become familiar with information, consultation, and problem-related meetings
Learn about the role of facilitator of remote meetings
Learn the rules and techniques of conducting such meetings
Practice handling difficult situations based on cases from their own professional life
Thanks to the application of this solution, the managers:
Known the suitable facilitation techniques, tools, and methods
Know how to apply and select influencing techniques matching their own behavior style and the goal they want to achieve
Cope with difficulties arising at meetings better
Are able to design a speech oriented towards specific goals
Effectively sell their ideas at remote meetings
Return to the Office
Return to the Office
The experience of lockdown has made us acquire many new habits. How to drop them and return to the “new normal” at the lowest cost possible? The participants:
Become familiar with the present challenges faced by managers: tension and uncertainty, concerns about returning to the office
Get to know how employee expectations towards the leader have changed
Learn to observe the rational and emotional aspects of behaviors displayed by employees and themselves
Get to know how to support employees in change and maintain their motivation
Become familiar with the change curve in the remote and hybrid model
Learn to manage their own emotions and practice emotional discipline
Thanks to the application of this solution, the managers:
Are better prepared for returning to the office in both operational and emotional terms
Can prepare a team for another change over a short time
Organize work more effectively and manage tasks more flexibly
Can allow for emotions, build self-understanding and mutual understanding when in the situation of uncertainty
Conflict Management in the Virtual Reality
Conflict Management in the Virtual Reality
Thanks to the application of this solution, the managers:
Reduce the time of managing conflicts in their teams
Know how to detect and resolve conflicts in a constructive manner
Use tools for preventing conflict escalation
Reduce the negative effects of conflicts
Are able to use conflict as a “progress driver”
The objective of this workshop is development of the ability to approach conflicts in a constructive manner. The participants:
Become familiar with the essence and importance of conflict in professional situations
Learn to work in various dimensions of business relations: interests, power, climate, flexibility
Work with tools of effective communication in difficult situations
Become familiar with and practice manager’s strategies of conflict resolution
Discover the role of self-awareness and emotional distance of a manager, which is necessary for consensus building
Team Colors™ – development process for distributed team leaders
Team Colors™ – development process for distributed team leaders
Team building is a serious challenge even in “normal” times. The necessity to work in a distributed team may complicate it even more. The participants:
Become familiar with three perspectives: of the customers, of the organization, and of the members
Subject the team to a diagnosis by analyzing it with the Team Colors™ questionnaire
Learn about the role of leader in a team and in the development process
Analyze key team challenges
Design joint work practices and seek creative suggestions as to how to streamline cooperation
Thanks to the application of this solution, the managers:
Perfectly understand team’s strengths and weaknesses
Are able to formulate a plan of actions to improve the quality of joint work
Know how to streamline open communication in the team regarding the manner of team functioning and how it can develop
Achieve higher effectiveness in goal achievement
Develop individual competencies, e.g. communication and team ones (joint work skill)
Professional Video Message – Online Presentation
Professional Video Message – Online Presentation
This workshop responds to the increased need to reach customers, contracting parties, and colleagues using the video format. The participants:
Become familiar with the rules of building the structure of a video statement and a clear message
Become familiar with the rules of technical preparation: film set, equipment, camera angles, cropping skills
Learn how to reach listeners (form and content)
Practice the reinforcement of a message with their own behavior
Thanks to the application of this solution, the participants:
Effectively get the message across to internal and external customers
Know how to make goal-oriented presentations
Can build a comprehensible structure and use logical bridges
Know and apply the available tools that ensure attractiveness of the message and good management of recipients’ attention
How this will affect your business
Employees will gain more time for work itself and will spend less time on organizing work and cooperation
Tasks, objectives, rules will be more clear to everyone
Productivity and operational effectiveness will increase
Achieved effects will be better and frustration will be lower
Chaos will be eliminated and impression of disorder will disappear
Managers and their teams will gain a greater comfort of work
Resources at hand will be utilized more effectively
FAQ
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What training methods do you employ?
We work primarily on a workshop basis, which means that theoretical knowledge is limited to a minimum and most of the time during sessions is devoted to experiencing and practicing skills.
We apply engaging and diverse methods of work with people, among others, online and classroom workshops, webinars, conference lectures, Action Reflection Learning sessions, workshops conducted by the drama method, business simulations, implementation calendars, self-diagnosis questionnaires, consulting & coaching and blended learning sessions. Applications, websites and platforms are used where they facilitate the development process.
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Does training translate into effects?
Achievement of the effect consistent with the customer’s expectations, which was contracted at the process beginning, is the core of our philosophy of action.
Learn more about this topic in the How do we work >>
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Where is training delivered?
It depends on Customer’s expectations. Training can be organized in the Customer’s registered office or in a leased training classroom at any location. For projects executed in Warsaw we recommend the classrooms of our Metrum ¾ training center, which are excellently equipped for workshop-based activities.
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House of Skills offer does not include programs of interest to me: what now?
Contact us through the form, which can be easily found on our website. Our experts are experienced in creating original development programs and the wide network of know-how partners allows us to tailor our offer to Customer’s needs – of course if this does not go beyond the limits of our subject-matter specialization.
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