Intro to Leading Flexplace and Remote Teams Training
Join Chris Halladay to learn more about the reasons why Lehigh adopted the Flexplace and Fully Remote Work Arrangement policies.
Virtual and Hybrid Meeting Essentials
In this course, you'll learn strategies to make virtual and hybrid meetings more engaging and productive. Discover how to turn passive participants into active ones, decide when to hold live vs. asynchronous meetings, and understand what facilitators should do before, during, and after meetings. You'll also get tips to establish rules of engagement, combat video fatigue, and ensure you look and sound your best on camera.
Leading at a Distance
In this 36 minute LinkedIn Learning Course, instructor Kevin Eikenberry lays out how to lead effectively from a distance. He dives into the basics of remote leadership, such as how working remotely changes interpersonal dynamics. Plus, he shares tips for getting results at a distance—including how to provide remote coaching and feedback—as well as how to build trust, set reasonable boundaries as a long-distance leader, and more.
Communicating Across Cultures Virtually
Cross-cultural communication can be challenging, especially in virtual meetings. This course teaches you how to communicate effectively across cultures in a virtual setting. You'll learn about the importance of cultural context, key cultural elements (high/low context, task vs. relationship-focused), and the impact on communication dynamics. Additionally, you'll explore nuances like non-verbal cues and strategies for handling tough situations, such as first meetings and delivering bad news. With virtual meetings becoming a staple, mastering cross-cultural communication is essential for global teamwork and client relations.
Making Hybrid Teams Work Ensuring hybrid teammates have a voice
Are you looking for ways to successfully support a hybrid team? Teams that are hybrid by design, with members working in different locations and time zones at offices and in the field, have unique requirements and challenges that need to be addressed intentionally—not just by thoughtful leaders, but by all teammates.
Learning objectives
- Explain what a company must do to ensure that a hybrid team thrives.
- Determine what investments a company should make to improve efficiencies in collaboration.
- Distinguish the different approaches for facilitating meetings with a hybrid team.
- Differentiate the steps for establishing hybrid team norms.
- Interpret the signs of burnout and how best to address it.
Things I Learned After Five Years on a Hybrid-Remote Team
Ali Riehle is a Freelance Designer and Researcher who has worked remotely since August 2018. In this article, Ali shares her perspective on what it's like to work remotely and tips for engaging hybrid-remote teams.
Employees Are Lonelier Than Ever. Here's How Employers Can Help.
Loneliness comes with many negative side effects, and rates of loneliness at work have risen thanks to the pandemic. While increasing face-to-face interaction may be beneficial for some aspects of work, it’s not enough to create strong interpersonal bonds among colleagues. Whatever form the return to the workplace takes, building high-quality connections will require a focused set of structures and practices built on a bedrock of psychological safety. The author presents five important elements to consider.
The Future of Work is Hybrid: Here's How to Thrive in the New Normal
In this conversation, Lehigh University alumna and CEO of Virtual Work Insider Sacha Connor pulls from more than a decade of remote leadership experience to share three things companies and individuals can do to thrive in a hybrid work environment, tactics for combating remote fatigue, and how to build team culture—not just camaraderie—in a virtual setting.
The LTS Work at Home Page
Library and Technology Service (LTS) provides resources for accessing information and working productively in a remote environment, including:
- Practicing safe computing away from Lehigh
- Choosing how you will access Lehigh resources
- The Lehigh VPN
- Preparing to work remotely: Steps to take before you leave campus
- Getting software
- Access to Lehigh administrative systems and software (Banner/Argos/Desktop Finance etc.)
- Meeting virtually with video, voice, and chat tools.
LTS Standards for Flexplace Work Arrangements
Visit this link to learn more about the standards Library and Technology Service (LTS) has developed for flexplace work to support the technical requirements of working at a flexplace location.
ERAC Knowledge at Noon: Town Hall on Flexplace Policies (Recording)
VIsit this link to view a recorded discussion in which Chris Halladay, Associate Vice President for Human Resources, and Eric Zematis, Chief Information Security Officer, answered questions about the Lehigh Staff Flexplace Policy and the LTS standards for Flexplace work.