Work From Home is the new normal for business continuity. This deck covers best practices for employees and managers to be effective in a Work From Home setting; and some legal considerations as organizations embrace expanded telecommuting. Your effective Work at Home environment Communications: staying connected and engaged without the benefit of proximity How to be effective with your new video/web conferencing tools Useful Apps & Tools to boost your effectiveness Considerations for managers with distributed teams

1. Making
Work From
Home
(Really)
WORK
Parker Pearson
Vice President, Marketing
Advanced Logic/Donoma Software
Jim Cowan
Chairman & Attorney,
CowanPerry PC

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4. Your Home Office:
Making it WORK
(even now)
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5. Minimums:
• adequate lighting,
• power,
• WIFI/Cell signal
• DOOR
• Two screens if you can
• What’s behind you is
your personal “set”
• Visual cue for on a call
(Red card, sign, etc.)
Your Workspace

6. Video
Conferencing:
Everyone’s
Learning

7. •Lighting & angles
•Backdrop/walls
•Tissues & water
•Wired headset
•Appearance
Ace Your Video Calls

8. Best Practices for Video Conferences
VIDEO IS
POWERFUL
TURN OFF
DISTRACTIONS
TAKE A BREATH,
RELAX & SMILE
FACE THE
CAMERA
CAMERA AT EYE
LEVEL
PRACTICE SCREEN
SHARING
MUTE YOURSELF! ENGAGE
EVERYONE

9. Staying Connected &
Engaged

10. • Be patient
• Keep meetings small
• Make time to connect
• Watch isolation
• Leverage
collaboration tools
Navigating Change

11. Useful Tools
• Mobile email
• Unified messaging
• Instant messaging: Teams,
Slack, Cisco Jabber
• Virtual phones
• Auto-scheduling: Calendly,
Acuity
• Task & Team Project
Management: ToDoist, Asana,
Monday

12. Considerations for
Managers

13. • Complicated home
environments
• Fear negates focus
• Strategically
overcommunicate
• Find ways to create team
connection
Virtual socials
Team discussions for
“fun stuff”
Leading the Way to Normal

14. Questions
Parker Pearson
(540) 443-3577
parker@ali-inc.com
Post-Event Resources
• WFH Community on Facebook
• Slides via SlideShare
Event recording for on-demand replay
• Gartner Article: Leading Employees Through
the Emotional Side of COVID-19