Managing engagement for remote teams presents unique challenges, including:
- Isolation and lack of connection – Physical distance prevents organic interactions and relationships.
- Communication breakdowns – Nuance gets lost without face-to-face contact, causing misunderstandings.
- Distractions at home – Kids, pets, chores, etc. at home compete for attention.
- Lack of unplugging – Without commutes, work can bleed into personal time always being “on.”
- Minimal visibility – Being out of sight leads to being out of mind for promotions.
- Tech fatigue – Constant video calls and chats can get mentally exhausting.
- Weak company culture – Hard to maintain cohesion and branding without offices.
Course Overview
The Engagement Strategies for Remote Teams Training Course empowers managers to foster fulfilment, productivity, and loyalty among distributed staff.
In this intensive training, managers will learn to:
- Build relationships through virtual coffee chats and socials
- Set clear expectations around focus time and responsiveness
- Leverage engagement surveys tailored to remote workers
- Coach employees through motivation lulls and isolation
- Provide air cover and advocate for remote team members
- Celebrate wins and culture through digital channels
- Sustain energy and prevent burnout across locations
With the strategies learned in this course, leaders will drive engagement, innovation, and results from dispersed teams.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for:
- Managers of fully remote or hybrid teams
- Team leaders of individual remote employees
- Senior leaders overseeing multiple remote sites
- Project managers with distributed stakeholders
- Anyone aspiring to manage remote workers someday
- Human Resource Managers
Course Content
Fostering Connections and Relationships
- Scheduling quality team, 1:1, and social time
- Building rapport through active listening remotely
- Facilitating virtual water cooler conversations
- Surfacing non-work topics and interests
- Segmenting channels like chat for informal connections
Setting Clear Remote Work Expectations
- Communicating availability, response times, and schedules
- Establishing focused “deep work” time
- Providing guidance around professional video setups
- Defining appropriate work hours and right to disconnect
- Setting deliverable-driven rather than time-based expectations
Measuring and Monitoring Engagement
- Deploying remote-optimized engagement surveys
- Assessing participation levels in virtual socials
- Tracking productivity holistically not just activity
- Soliciting anonymous feedback regularly
- Tracking 1:1 meeting quality and fulfilment discussions
Coaching Through Isolation and Motivation Lulls
- Noticing changes in energy and engagement
- Discussing feelings of loneliness and frustrations
- Reigniting fulfilment in the work itself
- Facilitating connections with peers
- Pointing out progress and milestones achieved
Advocating for Remote Employees
- Ensuring remote team is represented in meetings
- Speaking up if remote workers are interrupted
- Fighting proximity bias by gathering distributed perspectives
- Publicizing individuals’ contributions and wins
- Confronting “out of sight, out of mind” mentalities
Maintaining Culture Across Distances
- Celebrating successes through gifts and digital events
- Overcommunicating values, mission, and culture
- Facilitating team offsite meetups when possible
- Discussing culture fit during remote onboarding
- Keeping distributed team members updated on changes
Preventing Burnout
- Modelling sustainable workload and boundaries
- Encouraging focused work blocks and decreased context switching
- Discussing mental health and burnout risks transparently
- Promoting smart goal-setting: not just more goals
- Enable sabbaticals and collective recharge periods
Benefits for Organizations
- Increased remote worker productivity and discretionary effort
- Improved retention of top distributed talent
- Reduced burnout and associated health costs
- Clearer insight into remote engagement via optimized surveys
- Closer connections between distributed team members
- Stronger remote leadership capabilities at all levels
Benefits for Individuals
Individuals will obtain:
- Techniques to build trust and relationships virtually
- Knowledge of remote worker motivations and challenges
- Ability to re-engage discouraged remote employees
- Skills to advocate for remote team members
- Strategies to sustain energy across distributed teams
- Ways to maintain culture without central offices
FAQs
What is the learning format?
It includes presentations, breakouts, activities, assessments, and action planning.
Who leads the sessions?
Experienced remote managers facilitate the highly-interactive training.
What materials do I receive?
You’ll get a comprehensive digital workbook, templates, and tools.
How do I get started?
Use the Registration options or reach us through the chat with any other questions.