Remote Workforce
Employee development is good for employees and good for business. But many companies struggle to build professional development into their remote work culture.
A survey by The Harris Group found that 70% of US employees are at least somewhat likely to leave their current company and accept an offer with a new company that’s known for investing in employee learning and development.
So with remote work continuing to grow, it’s important that companies invest in their employees’ growth too.
Kristin Ryba. “Professional Development for Remote Workers: Top Tips and Strategies” Quantum Workplace, December 1, 2020, https://www.quantumworkplace.com/future-of-work/professional-development-for-remote-workers#:~:text=Provide%20a%20professional%20development%20stipend.%20One%20of%20the,that%20interests%20them%20and%20aligns%20with%20their%20goals.
Live Webinars
On Demand Webinars
Platform: Learning Tree
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There's no denying it — a virtual workforce is rapidly becoming our new working norm. How can leaders and managers successfully lead virtual teams in this new world of globally-dispersed organizations? Effective remote-work leaders must have a clear understanding of the challenges their global teams face on a day-to-day basis in a virtual environment.
Platform: Learning Tree
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Staying connected while maintaining social distance presents many new challenges at work. Join this conversation with three Learning Content Experts as they discuss how the latest virtual collaboration and learning tools can keep individuals and teams engaged while working remotely.
Platform: New Horizons
"In the changing world and the big shift to online infrastructures, instead of connecting teams virtually meetings seem to create more disconnect. The big question that goes through everyone’s mind is “How can I make my meetings more purposeful?” This engaging webinar brings a new perspective and key tips on how to build better preparation, engagement, and empowerment for all participants in a virtual meeting, ensuring you get more out of your team members in order to build a better tomorrow…remotely.
Platform: New Horizons
Building high-performing teams remotely is a critical skill for leaders as the global workforce continues to expand. The rewards of developing a solid remote / virtual workforce are significant - so it's more important than ever to learn how to create a virtual workforce and take your remote team's performance to the next level. This webinar includes actionable content you'll be able to apply immediately, including: Leadership best practices for effective remote and virtual teams, How to build a high-performing and engaged remote workforce, Utilize communication & technology to benefit your team.
Platform: New Horizons
The unprecedented change and uncertainty throughout 2020 have left all of us continually seeking ways to manage transition. While many of us have been surviving this changing environment, how can we begin to thrive through the year ahead? How can we leverage our internal and external resources as we approach more transition? And, how do we support our teams in successfully approaching and navigating transitions?
Platform: New Horizons
Have you ever dealt with a difficult person? Have you ever seen rivalry between people? Have you ever experienced stress at work? All of these situations have one thing in common: Conflict. Conflict exists at every workplace and in every family. Conflict exists in every one of us, maybe more now than ever before. Knowing how to deal with conflict a primary competency for everyone and every business. Having access to the tools to help understand and disarm conflict allows you to create solutions that will reshape and strengthen relationships and up-level everyone involved.
Platform: New Horizons
Microsoft Office—we all use it regularly. Let’s unlock the full potential to increase productivity! In this webinar, you will learn essential advanced Office skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Using new features, you will learn how to use shortcuts and create visually appealing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
Platform: International Institute for Learning, Inc.
It’s easy for meetings and discussions in a virtual environment to become routine, sterile, predictable, or downright boring. Unlike traditional meetings where it’s easier to establish rapport, develop relationships and have more personal conversations, the virtual world makes these important personal interactions more difficult, if not impossible. This webinar will offer practical suggestions and ideas to help groups and project teams establish and maintain rapport as well as keep virtual meetings more interesting and fun. Networking and interacting during virtual meetings can be challenging, but if groups and teams make an effort to incorporate a few basic relationship tactics, those boring virtual meetings can become a thing of the past.
Platform: New Horizons
The world is changing before our eyes. Remote teams, and the ability to successfully manage them, is now critical to maintaining business continuity. But how do you best leverage these benefits while overcoming impediments? This informative webinar will show you how to adjust to the remote environment to positively improve communication, foster connections, and expand productivity. Topics covered include: Understanding Team Member’s Unique Situations, Keeping Everyone Informed, Innovating with Virtual Teams, Managing Work Outputs, Creating Team Identity, Developing Effective Communication Across Various Media.
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The SUNY CPD is a collaborative central resource for the SUNY community providing access to high quality professional development opportunities focused on the latest trends and established best practices in higher education to enhance the capability of SUNY faculty and staff and increase SUNY's competitive advantage.
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East Syracuse, 13057
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