Undeniable Mobility Trends

Mobility-enabling technology is here today and the virtual way of working is rapidly expanding. Strong communities of interest are pushing technology, further accelerating the need to keep up. As more employees expect mobility, executives will need to be able to answer these questions:

• Do virtual office employees know how to stay visible and connected?
  
  
• Are managers effectively managing your geographically distributed workforce?
  
  
• Does the company provide teleworkers effective guidance on setting up and running a home office?
  
  
• Do managers know how to build teamwork and effective collaboration in a virtual team?

These and many other questions must be addressed in order to have an effective program where workers not only survive, but excel in the virtual workplace.

Consider the facts

• All organizations are faced with virtual workplace issues
  
  
• There is ample evidence for the need for solutions
  
  
• We all experience a natural, relentless resistance to change
  
  
• There are proven techniques for successful virtual workplace transformation

Disorganized mobility, remote work and telework can be very costly and very unproductive. e-Work.com solutions reduce the risk and prepare ALL employees with effective virtual workplace practices.

Virtual Workplace e-Learning Solution

The e-Work Training Solution is the engine that empowers clients to transfer critical knowledge and skills to e-Workers and their managers. e-Work.com training:

• Provides employees with the guidance, tools, and resources to thrive in an virtual workplace.
  
  
• Provides managers the guidance, tools, and resources to manage virtual office workers effectively and integrate this new work option into their standard management practices

e-Learning Course Features

• A learner profile determines a personal content path
  
  
• Separate courses for employees and managers
  
  
• Mentor-lead presentation featuring full motion video, audio, flash animation, and animated graphics
  
  
• Highly interactive, scenario-based, role playing & game-based assessments
  
  
• Animated interactions (rollover, popup, drag and drop) with complex branching and feedback loops
  
  
• Optional learn-more topics and learning exercises
  
  
• Extensive job aides for every topic in the course are made available for each learner to save and access as needed at a later date
  
  
• Attractive graphics and user interface to encourage better attention and retention
  

e-Work.com e-Learning courses provide learners with a customized resource page, an action plan, critical job aides, continuous learning tools and web links to internal and external resources.

Courses are designed for maximum flexibility, allowing clients to meet specific organizational, cultural, technological and learning management needs. The courses easily integrate into your learning management systems or we can host them from ours. Flexibility features include:

• SCORM 1.2 compliant modular design for easy updating
  
  
• Meets standard accessibility standards
  
  
• Green screen video allowing insertion of your backgrounds
  
  
• Full audio with user-controlled captions option
  
  
• Course can be saved and resumed at a later time

Most e-Work.com e-Learning Course components can be customized including job aides, workplace terminology, program messaging, student path, narration, activities, scenarios, quizzes, links, and many others.

Employee e-Learning Course

Course Value Proposition: Students will acquire the skills, tools, and resource links during from this computer-based training to:

• Understand the impact of mobility trends and work styles
  
  
• Learn best practices for successfully fitting in while working away
  
  
• Update best practices for effective communication
  
  
• Acquire tools and resources for creating a functional home office (for teleworkers)
  
  
• Attain knowledge and tools for creating an effective and productive mobility routine
  
  
• Identify and effectively use appropriate mobile technology tools
  
  
• Establish a proven strategy for remote work success

Course learning elements outline

• Course Overview
  
  
• Maintaining Your Relationships & Credibility
  
  
• Managing Your Time, Workload, and Performance
  
  
• Setting Up Your Home Office
  
  
• Course Summary

Upon completion of this course, students will create an action plan for successfully transitioning from their traditional work environment to in virtual work environment.

Manager e-Learning Course

Course Value Proposition: This course enables managers of knowledge workers to:

• Learn the steps, habits, and routines needed to teach, coach and maintain highly effective work behavior in a geographically distributed work environment
  
  
• Gain an understanding of what it takes to excel in a virtual workplace, why some virtual office workers fail, and how to make sure their workers don't
  
  
• Develop advanced skills to effectively develop, manage and support a work group having virtual workers
  
  
• Gain the ability to direct and encourage adoption of a virtual lifestyle by all employees in the work group
  
  
• Learn to use techniques and tools designed to assure that employees maintain a high level of proficiency irrespective of their work location
  
  
• Learn to set knowledge worker performance expectations and have employees routinely exceed them

Course Learning Elements Outline

• Course Overview
  
  
• Establishing a solid mobility foundation
  
  
• Creating and managing a highly effective mobile work environment
  
  
• Course Summary