Remote working Archives

8 Top Tips to Adapt your Coaching for Remote

Remote coaching requires a structured approach with regular scheduled sessions, clear goals, and written action plans. These eight tips help managers adapt their coaching strategy for virtual work, ensuring accountability and measurable progress despite changing work patterns.

The good, the bad and the ugly of learning and development in 2020

Which practices should we continue in 2021 and which belong in the museum?

Surviving a second lockdown

Learn practical strategies for maintaining mental and physical wellbeing during a second lockdown. From scheduling exercise during daylight hours to nurturing resilience through familiar routines, discover how we can adapt and support ourselves through the challenging months ahead.

Linking learning with performance and culture in a remote workforce

Now is not the time to neglect learning – it’s more important than ever before.

Panic and pandemic: winter resilience

As a second lockdown looms, building winter resilience means appreciating what we have learned from the pandemic and recognizing our capacity to adapt. From managing remote work in makeshift spaces to supporting frontline workers’ mental health, we’ve discovered unexpected resourcefulness and less dependence on material comforts.

How to save your team from meeting overload

Make virtual meetings work more efficiently for you and your colleagues.

The four key elements of effective deskless workforce training

Not everyone has a job that involves sitting and staring at a screen… it’s time training providers upped their offering for deskless workers.

Thank Ewe!

Glasstap Sheep Trials, a classic team-building activity, has been successfully redesigned for remote delivery through collaboration between Trainers’ Library and We Are Idea Consulting in Mumbai. The innovative adaptation maintains the original’s focus on planning, communication, and teamwork while enabling virtual delivery across global audiences.

Skills gap analysis: How well do you understand the skills needs in your business?

With so much ongoing change happening, it’s time for businesses to have a skills rethink.

Going digital with leadership development programmes

Expert advice from L&D experts who’ve been there and done that.

Stepping up: the manager’s role in optimising virtual team learning

Empowering managers to deliver better virtual team learning.

Why virtual training is now better than face-to-face

Learning remotely offers many more benefits in the modern workplace.

Is flexible learning the key to a swift business recovery?

New research suggests businesses focusing on L&D during the pandemic are confident of a brighter future.

The legacy of lockdown on learning and development

Self-directed learning is here to stay – and it’s a good thing for L&D practitioners.

Panic and pandemic: long-life lockdown

As lockdown extends from weeks into months, workers and organizations face a new reality of remote work and delayed returns to offices. The pandemic has forced rapid workplace decisions and exposed stark inequalities between those juggling care at home and essential workers on the frontlines, while also sparking unexpected community kindness and reflection on how we work and live together.