A Changing World: How to Manage Remotely

Most managers and Team Leaders are used to seeing their teams all of the time and haven’t had a lot of training on how to switch to managing remotely. This session will look at some of the challenges of managing a remote team including staff engagement, productivity and wellbeing. It will offer guidance on structures and frameworks and skills to improve interactions with remote teams.

Learning Objectives
By the end of the session, delegates will:
- Understand the challenges for remote workers and for their managers in terms of physical and mental wellbeing and performance
- Understand the research on the effects of remote working in these areas
- Understand some important structures and frameworks to support remote workers
- To provide some skills for managers in interacting with their remote team
- To provide guidance and skills to remote workers on how to set themselves up to avoid the negative impact of remote working and to maximise productivity

Speaker Biography
Nick offers a unique combination of skills in the UK insurance training sector – an industry sales specialist and a professional coach and trainer. He is an Economics graduate with over 25 years corporate insurance broking experience
He was a highly successful sales producer in the UK broking market before progressing into regional and then national sales leadership roles. As National Development Director at HSBC, Nick was one of only 40 people from a global workforce of 265,000 selected as part of the STARS programme to recognise exceptional performance. He is a highly trained consultative sales specialist, and his experience includes a secondment with a major management consultant to design a best practice sales process.

In the mid-2000s, Nick developed a chronic health condition; his journey to recovery fostered a new range of interests, and a passion for health, and performance. He studied widely, qualifying as a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), obtaining a Diploma in Life Coaching, before going on to study Corporate/Business Coaching with The Coaching Academy. Nick is also a qualified Holistic Lifestyle Coach and Advanced Exercise Coach.
In the last two years Nick has worked in a self-employed capacity in training, coaching, and consulting. He works with a specialist adviser in Insurance sector M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions), and through Nick Thomas & Associates provides wide ranging training solutions to the UK Insurance sector across Sales, Business skills and Technical insurance training.

In recent months, Nick Thomas & Associates have delivered highly acclaimed training and webinar series providing up to the moment solutions to the challenges of the developing ‘new normal’.

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