Learning and working from home
As many of you continue to transition to working from home, it is important that you feel confident and supported to do so. We have put together relevant resources, updated our courses and linked to useful sites in order to help and guide you. There are also some fantastic resources on LearnSmart to support you and to help you keep your knowledge, skills and career up to date.
Working from home
Some of you will have found working from home an easy transition, for others it might be taking a little longer to get into the rhythm of balancing home life and work.
A number of teams in HR Services have collected a range of information to help you while you navigate your way into a healthy and productive homeworking life:
- Home Working SWAY
- Leading teams SWAY
- Keeping Healthy Yammer
- Disability guidance
- Specific Guidance for Parents/Guardians and Carers
Additional information for both staff and managers can be found in the sections below:
- Ten Top Tips for working remotely: If you have 2 minutes to spare, this is a great little guide. Useful for those new to remote working and those of us who might need a reminder.
- Remote Working: Setting yourself and your teams up for success: Optimise working remotely in this set of online courses from LinkedIn Learning. Discover how to be productive and stay connected when working from home or other remote environments.
- How to manage your time better: A great infographic about managing your time!
- Tips for successful virtual meetings: A few gentle reminders for us when attending or running virtual meetings. We also run an online session about this area - find more details here.
- Don't-forget-the-human-side-of-homeworking: An interesting Blog just reminding us that even though we might be working remotely from each other, we are still all human!
- 10 top tips for managing remote teams
- Don’t forget the human side of homeworking
- Remote Working: Setting Yourself and Your Teams Up for Success
- Top Tips for Leading Remote Teams
- How to Make Virtual Meetings Work
- How to Run a Great Virtual Meeting
- Virtually Perfect Meetings
- Top Ten Challenges of Managing a Virtual Team
- Work-Life Integration
- Virtual Project Teams
Learning from home
While you are working from home try to make time for your own personal development - there are lots of ideas to explore. The UK government has launched a Skills Toolkit aimed at those being furloughed (but useful to everyone) to continue to develop new skills at home.
We have also curated a number of different learning and development opportunities in our Developing yourself during homeworking resource which you can dip into at any time.
