Working remotely is not just working from home at the kitchen table. Working remote requires a different way of working, new tools, and above all a different mindset
In the Work Together Anywhere Workshop you learn how to:
- Build Remote Teams that work together as real teams
- Set up productive Remote meetings
- How to manage and lead remote teams
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Who should attend this workshop?
- Managers and Leaders who work with remote teams
- Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters who are coaching and supporting remote teams
- Team Members who work in remote teams and want to take their team to the next level
- HR Professionals who need to help their organization to make a switch to a remote organization
Interesting in learning more? Attend a workshop, check out the schedule for upcoming workshops!
Structure of the Online Working Together Anywhere Workshop
The online workshop exists out of four sessions. Every session is 90 minutes and is highly interactive. The topics of the four sessions are:
- Set Expectations for How to Work Together
- Working Together Online
- Have memorable online meetings
- Manage Online Teams
Every session has some theory, exercises, and looking back at the previous weeks. At the end of every session, you decide what you would like to try out for the next session. By doing this, you can directly try out the things you learn during the workshop.
We piloted the Work Together Anywhere workshop with several teams at Rabobank. I can see a difference between the teams who took the workshop and the teams that didn’t. Teams who followed the workshop are having more effective remote stand-up meetings, retrospectives, and planning sessions.
Robbert Windsant (Scrum master at Rabobank)
Session 1 – Set expectations for how to work together
Avoid miscommunications and outline acceptable behaviors for how your team wants to work together.
Having people working together does not automatically mean they are a team. Everyone in a team has her or his own experiences, strengths, weaknesses, preferred way of working, etc. It is important in a remote team to make sure all team members are on the same page. In this session, you lean how to give your team the kick-off they need to become successful!
You will learn:
- How to establish a basic set of guidelines for working together on a remote team
- Common communication protocols for remote working
- Tools for capturing team agreements
Session 2 – Working together online
Increase the feeling of togetherness on your remote team by creating a productive and enjoyable virtual workspace.
One of the biggest disadvantages of working in remote teams is the feeling of loneliness. Also, the lack of communication is a big problem. We all know communication is important but still, we don’t get it well. In this session, you will learn how to help the team to be close together, communicate well, keep connected to each other.
Interesting in learning more? Attend a workshop, check out the schedule for upcoming workshops!
You will learn:
- Best practices and tools for seamless online collaboration
- Ways to combat the “out of sight, out of mind” mentality
- Simple tips for increasing camaraderie and the sense of team/togetherness online
Session 3 – Facilitate online meetings like a pro
Learn how to set up and facilitate virtual team meetings to get the most engagement and interaction from your team.
Many of you have experienced a remote meeting where you could not hear and/or see your colleagues. Tools that were not working. People talking at the same time. In this session, we look at how to get great remote meetings.
You will learn:
- How to choose and effectively use online meeting technology
- Common communication protocols for effective remote meetings
- How to facilitate interaction and participation, and minimize distractions and multi-tasking
After the workshop, our teams started experimenting with how to best have productive meetings with in-person and remote attendees. I also scheduled virtual lunches with people and made some new personal connections with a couple of teammates.
Bianca Roitsch (Scrum Master/Agile Coach at movingimage)
Session 4 – Managing and Leading Remote Teams
Learn how to give and receive feedback on both small and big things to inspire continuous improvement.
Remote teams require a different approach to management and leadership. Management needs to be done Out Loud even more than in regular teams. In this session, we look at what is needed to manage and lead remote teams.
You will learn:
- Techniques for rapid, continuous feedback
- How to set up 360-degree feedback systems so that colleagues and managers can more frequently measure each other’s performance
- Tools for showing appreciation
- How to conduct remote retrospectives
Practical Details
- Make sure you can attend the workshop in a quiet place. Preferable not a Starbucks.
- Have a stable broadband internet connection. Optimum bandwidth, i.e. internet speed on your side will be at least 10 Mbps download/upload. You can measure it using speedtest.net.
- If you are in a large office/room please use a headset to be able to focus
- Make sure your video camera is working, we expect you to turn on your webcam.
- To optimize your set-up, follow these suggestions on how to have a great video conferencing setup.
This workshop can also be done in a hybrid or in-person version. Please reach out to me to discuss what is possible.