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Working from home for dummies / Tara Powers, MS, et al.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: --For dummiesPublisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: xvi, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1119748496
  • 9781119748496
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Contents:
Getting started with working from home. Setting up your workspace -- Ensuring success with important work-at-home skills and behaviors -- Following virtual team meeting etiquette -- Staying in touch with Slack. Getting started with Slack -- Targeting your communication with Slack channels -- Entering the wonderful world of Slack messages -- Staying informed with notifications, statuses, and feeds -- Focusing on Zoom. Getting to know Zoom's suite of communication tools -- Setting up Zoom -- Connecting with others via Zoom meetings -- Looking at Zoom contact management and chatting -- Taking advantage of Microsoft Teams. Navigating Microsoft Teams -- Starting your first team and managing your settings -- Staying connected to others with channels and chat -- Embracing Teams to make meetings better -- Managing employees from home. Introducing the basics of managing virtual employees -- Transitioning from old-school manager to virtual team leader -- Adopting best practices in communication -- Adding balance and peace to your work-at-home life -- The part of ten. Ten predictors of virtual team success -- Ten great Slack tips.
Summary: "Working from home was already on the rise, but when COVID-19 hijacked our reality, it became a way of life for many. Whether you're doing it one or two days a week or full-time, you'll appreciate the guidance in this book. Here are tried-and-true tips for enhancing your productivity, creating a workspace that's pleasant and efficient, dealing with distractions, making the most of virtual meetings, maintaining the trust of your manager and teammates, and a whole lot more. Inside: Make online meetings more productive; Get in the right headspace; Set necessary boundaries and expectations; Maintain effective connection with team members; Learn to stay focused"-- back cover.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 658.3123 P888 Available 33111009752201
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Your essential guide to working from home and staying connected

In today's networked global economy, working from home is no longer a novelty. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies and organizations everywhere are embracing the game-changing benefits of allowing employees to work outside the office, and the results are profound: managers benefit by saving money and resources and by having access to talent outside their zip codes, while employees enjoy greater job opportunities, productivity, independence, and satisfaction--in part from the time saved not commuting. According to one source, 85% of businesses say that productivity increased along with greater flexibility--and 90% of employees say that flexibility boosted their morale.

Working From Home For Dummies , gathers the expertise of multiple industry experts, featuring best of the best content from Virtual Teams For Dummies, Managing For Dummies, 3E, Company Culture For Dummies, Zoom For Dummies, Microsoft Teams For Dummies, Slack For Dummies, Mindfulness For Dummies, 3E , and Stretching For Dummies , as well as new material from award-winning author Tara Powers on setting expectations and boundaries, and more.

Set up your workspace Stay connected to your team Run productive online meetings Get in the right headspace

This book is the full guide on how to successfully work with virtual teams, whether you are a team member or a manager.

Includes index.

Getting started with working from home. Setting up your workspace -- Ensuring success with important work-at-home skills and behaviors -- Following virtual team meeting etiquette -- Staying in touch with Slack. Getting started with Slack -- Targeting your communication with Slack channels -- Entering the wonderful world of Slack messages -- Staying informed with notifications, statuses, and feeds -- Focusing on Zoom. Getting to know Zoom's suite of communication tools -- Setting up Zoom -- Connecting with others via Zoom meetings -- Looking at Zoom contact management and chatting -- Taking advantage of Microsoft Teams. Navigating Microsoft Teams -- Starting your first team and managing your settings -- Staying connected to others with channels and chat -- Embracing Teams to make meetings better -- Managing employees from home. Introducing the basics of managing virtual employees -- Transitioning from old-school manager to virtual team leader -- Adopting best practices in communication -- Adding balance and peace to your work-at-home life -- The part of ten. Ten predictors of virtual team success -- Ten great Slack tips.

"Working from home was already on the rise, but when COVID-19 hijacked our reality, it became a way of life for many. Whether you're doing it one or two days a week or full-time, you'll appreciate the guidance in this book. Here are tried-and-true tips for enhancing your productivity, creating a workspace that's pleasant and efficient, dealing with distractions, making the most of virtual meetings, maintaining the trust of your manager and teammates, and a whole lot more. Inside: Make online meetings more productive; Get in the right headspace; Set necessary boundaries and expectations; Maintain effective connection with team members; Learn to stay focused"-- back cover.

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