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Developing your virtual workforce
Bringing essential soft skills to your remote employees, teams and leaders
We’re all having to work differently. Remote working may have been normal for some, it’s now normal for almost all. With this change, comes a genuine need to stay meaningfully connected and continue to work productively.
People work best when they’re self-aware and can put that self-awareness into action to help them:
- navigate changing situations
- process and deal with stress
- communicate effectively and build trust
How are you keeping your teams together? And do they have the soft skills they need to be successful in the virtual workplace?
If you need help developing your remote employees, we’re here for you, and can support you in these ways:
We do it for you
These online webinars are a popular and affordable way to develop foundational self-awareness and support the soft skills your people need:
- MBTI® Essentials Virtual Workshop (2 hours)
- Enhancing Communication (90 mins)
- Managing Change (90 mins)
- Building Resilience (90 mins)
We do it with you
Get support for anything from team and leadership development to executive coaching. The Myers-Briggs Company has the psychological expertise and organizational experience to help you solve your most complex people challenges in virtual contexts. Everything can be delivered virtually and tailored to your unique challenges and needs.
You do it yourself
Become qualified to use market-leading personality assessments and deliver life-long impact to individuals and teams. Certification is a professional and personal development journey – when you learn how to help others become more self-aware, you’ll grow too.
"The Virtual [Essentials] workshop provided my team with knowledge to work together more efficiently. And improve our interpersonal relationships. It also helped me be a better team leader."
Jennifer Lindstrom, Pharm.D., Director of Pharmacy at Treasure Valley Hospital
Support for your virtual workforce
Keep your people productive and effective amid a fast-changing environment. Whether you’re helping managers who’ve never had virtual teams, or helping your workforce adapt to virtual communication, these resources are for you to share:
- Tip sheet: Nurturing relationships in Corona times
- Tip sheet: Type tips for Leading in Corona times
- Tip sheet: Type tips for living and working in Corona times
- Tip sheet: Working from home as an Extravert or Introvert
- Quick guide: Raising awareness about stress
- Quick guide: Get more from email
- Quick guide: Type stressors and reactions
- Infographic: Get more out of remote working
- Infographic: Stressed at work? You’re not alone
- Infographics: MBTI type heads and MBTI stress heads
- Infographic: Managing virtual teams through COVID-19
Recent webinars
Personality and stress in a virtual world
John Hackston, Head of Thought Leadership, has been looking into your reactions to the Coronavirus crisis. Along with his findings, he’d like to discuss how stress links to personality type. Why do you feel stressed by different things from other people? How can you spot the signs of stress, even virtually? How do you escape the ‘stress zone’ and stay feeling ‘psychologically safe’?
Virtual teams and the critical factor of communication
Dr Rachel Cubas-Wilkinson, Senior Consultant at The Myers-Briggs Company considers the impact of remote working on team communication. She’ll explore the most crucial team elements that support high-quality communication and consider personal and organizational strategies that can improve the effectiveness of virtual teams
How personality influences virtual teamwork
Helen Rayner, Lead Consultant at The Myers-Briggs Company shares outcomes of recent research on virtual teams. She explores the perceptions of working in virtual, co-located and combined teams and presents the five team scales which emerged, along with suggested tools and techniques to maintain team effectiveness when remote working.
Case studies
See how we’ve helped these organizations focus on virtual delivery and virtual working