To support you in leading your team virtually in an effective way, we have collated a number of useful materials for you to browse – these include how to agree on the best methods of communicating, keeping up with the basics such as 1-2-1s and performance reviews, being attentive and present on video calls, building trust and giving clarity.

Long-term homeworking may be a new and unfamiliar process for many employees, even for those who do it occasionally. In this section, we’ve brought together several articles and tools to support being able to maintain a sense of continuity. 

It’s likely you and your team are processing the change to the way you work differently and the tools in this section support in understanding how people can respond to change and how to support the emotional wellbeing of your people. 

The skill of communicating is more important than ever when you're doing this virtually. Using video in teams, skype or whatsapp is highly recommended so you get that face to face connection and can pick up on non-verbal and social-context clues. 

Change management is the process, tools and techniques to manage the people side of change to achieve the required business outcome, and to help individuals make successful personal transitions resulting in the adoption and realization of change.

The concepts of grit and resilience, terms generally used to describe the ability to persevere through hardships to meet goals. Resilient individuals exhibit the ability to “bounce back” from stressful and negative emotional experiences. Grit is defined as the tendency to sustain interest and effort towards long term goals. Like most valuable skills, resilience and grit take practice. Fostering these mindset-expanding traits will have a positive impact on every aspect of your work and personal life.

During times of change, it’s just as important to clarify development goals and continue to have conversations so you can develop those skills in real-time and exhibit new behavior.

As teams may change due to health reasons during this time, it’s important to ensure that workload is fairly distributed amongst the team and that you’re able to delegate as a leader.  

Human Focus is a great online portal containing e-learning courses suitable for all employees. For example: Fire Awareness, First Aid, Manual Handling and Behavioural Awareness. Human Focus is accessible via the License to Operate System and does not require a Tarmac device/email. You can also access Human Focus via your tablet or smart phone.