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WEBINAR: Introduction to Remote Working: Attracting and Retaining a Flexible Workforce.Wednesday, July 29, 2009 from 2:00 PM to 3:20 PM (GMT) |
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Webinar: Introduction to Remote Working: Attracting and Retaining a Flexible
Workforce
Aims of this live, online workshop
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This workshop is an introduction for leaders and managers who are investigating, or intending to introduce, the option of remote or home working for workers in response to economic or practical drivers.
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It is a management-focused programme around attracting and retaining a flexible workforce with specific emphasis on remote working.
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It gives an overview of web-tools supporting remote working, enabling businesses large and small to enable staff to work more flexibly from home and on the move, at little cost.
The workshop will provide an introduction to:
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The business benefits of remote working.
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Detailed case studies
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Attracting and retaining staff with remote working
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Remote Working Agreements
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Supporting and managing the remote worker
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Cheap and free Web tools to facilitate remote working.
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Return on investment for their adoption of remote working.
Widening access to working opportunities through remote working is catering for a more diverse work force. This webinar shows small and medium-sized businesses how to use remote working to benefit the employee, the business, and the customer.
About the webinar
Each
webinar is a live, speaker-led one hour of interactive presentation
followed by 20-30
minutes questions and discussion. Speakers are experienced online
facilitatotrs and/or subject matter experts.
Participants require at least a set of speakers, preferably a headset with a microphone. The Flash browser plugin is needed.
Some firewalls make it difficult to run webinars: we take no responsibility for your network settings, please check beforehand that you can get access (ask us for a room test).
Beyond 9 to 5 www.beyond9to5.co.uk is a community of practice for managers and individuals involved in flexible working: with resources, online learning materials, events and discussions, in a supportive community of others in a similar position.
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When & Where
Online Webinar
This course is delivered through an online Webinar, which means you can join in from wherever you are. We open up the webinar 30 minutes early, so newcomers can get used to the space, and its a really friendly and fun way of learning. Interact fully, or
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 from 2:00 PM to 3:20 PM (GMT)
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Reach Further Ltd
Reach Further brings people together online to share, to work and to learn in online communities and social media networks.
Who we are
Reach Further helps businesses & individuals make the most of the social web through training courses, consultancy, & social media strategy creation & delivery.
We've been doing social media since before the term was invented. Our biggest online community - with 3 million members in 170 countries is 12 years old this year. We've also run an online community for the United Nations, and an open eLearning researchers group at http://elesig.ning.com - held up by the inspectorate as "the finest example of a sustainable community on the web."
What we can do for you
We help your business make the most of social media. Using free tools and simple strategies we save you money and time whilst improving your brand, reach and reputation, and increasing your sales. We do this by helping you engage your customers in conversation.
We can show you how to make the most of social networking with value-for-money practical workshops and planning. And when you are ready to reach further, we can help with online communities, social networking, eLearning and remote working.
How we work
Reach Further works with businesses, public services, educational & membership organisations to adopt & embed social and collaborative technologies to deliver learning & commercial advantage.