With the nation-wide move to have employees work from home to limit social distancing in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, many managers are faced with virtually managing their employees for the first time. Already 50 percent of today’s employees work virtually as of 2020 and many more would like to. Thirty-six percent of employees would give up a pay raise for the ability to work remotely; forty percent would be willing to take a pay cut for that option.  

Find out what it takes to successfully manage virtual workers, learn the pitfalls and successful tools and techniques other organizations are successfully using on this topic, and increase your confidence for effectively getting work done through workers who are not in the office.

Topics include: 

• The growing importance of virtual work and the virtual worker
• Setting clear goals, expectations and control for virtual workers
• Building trust, teams and accountability with virtual workers
• Technology tools and strategies for extraordinary communication
• Promoting inclusion and collaboration with virtual workers
• Virtual recognition and rewards for remote workers

By allowing greater worker autonomy and flexibility, companies can greatly expand their potential pool of talent, which is especially important in light of the increasing shortage of skilled labor facing all organizations today and in the years to come.   

Bob Nelson, Ph.D. is president of Nelson Motivation Inc. in San Diego, California. Considered the world’s leading authority on employee recognition, engagement and retention and president of Nelson Motivation Inc., a management training/consulting company specializing in helping organizations improve their management practices, programs & systems. He’s a former corporate trainer who managed an international supervisory training program for a Fortune 50 company, a Senior Management Trainer for a major financial institution (where he taught seven management topics throughout the Ninth Federal Reserve), and a Vice President of product development for the Ken Blanchard companies, where he created five training product lines while being a collaborator, confidant and co-author for Dr. Blanchard, “The One Minute Manager.” Named the #1 Management Guru by Global Gurus and a Top Ten Keynote speaker by ManageHR magazine, Dr. Bob is a Distinguished Fellow for EBSCOlearning who has presented on six continents and worked with 80 percent of the Fortune 500 companies.

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