Managing teams working remotely

As part of the Your life at work strand, we're offering training aimed at sharing workplace best practice as well as how you and your teams can stay healthy, happy, and productive at work. 

Lockdown working presented opportunities to work ‘differently’. Working from home is probably here to stay but how do we manage teams who are either all working from home or hybrid teams where some are working from home and others are in the office? How do we inspire productivity and motivation and how do we support those who might be struggling?

Whatever the situation and whether you, as a manager, are at the office or at home, this interactive workshop is for you.

Who it's for

This course is for anyone in unscripted TV who is managing teams remotely.

The majority of the USF online short course offering is for those at early career stage and above. As a result, we generally require applicants to have at least 3 credits (unless working in a traditionally uncredited role). If you strongly feel you would still benefit from the training, please email USF@screenskills.com so we can assess if an exception should be made.

We are committed to ensuring all our courses are accessible to everyone. This course is designed to be as interactive as possible. Please email the above address if you have any access requirements and we will be delighted to help, be that clarifying the form such interaction is likely to take or discussing reasonable adjustments.

What it covers

• Reflecting on your own experience of working from home - the pros and cons
• Real life experiences of those being managed
• Planning: which roles/which people are best suited to working from home?
• Maintaining productivity and motivation
• How to identify and support those who are struggling
• Delegating effectively to teams work from home
• Work through a scenario
• Commit to some actions

Speaker

Anna Roberts is a coach, mentor, facilitator and trainer with a background in television and training. For the last 3 years she has been running coaching and mentoring programmes for Bectu, the television and film union, most recently the Mentoring 4 Screen programme for behind-the-scenes workers in scripted and unscripted TV and film, funded by ScreenSkills.

For 14 years, Anna worked as a video-journalist, documentary PD and self-shooting PD making programmes with independents for BBC, ITV, Channel Four and S4C, travelling all over the world.

She was head of training for 2 years at the Thomson Foundation which offered training for journalists and programme makers from the developing world. In 2015, she completed an ILM level 7 in Coaching and Mentoring at the University of South Wales. She also volunteers as a mentor for young people at the Prince’s Trust.

How to apply

This session will take place online via Zoom. Click ‘apply for ticket’ and follow the instructions to apply for your place: you must login or register before you are able to complete your application.

Places on these free online courses are limited and applications are often highly competitive. To stand the best chance of securing a place, please be sure to consider the following:

• When asked to list your three most recent credits, please include the programme title and your job role.
• When asked what you hope to gain from the course, please be concise but ensure you cover the specific elements of the topic you would like to gain knowledge of and what gaps in your skillset you believe the course may address. A rewording of the course title or a general comment on career progression does not tell us much about how this course would benefit you.

If you are no longer able to attend, we ask you to please use the “decline ticket” function on the right hand side of the page so that we can release your place. Our sessions are often oversubscribed, so we’d like to give other freelancers the opportunity to fill available spots. Thank you for your consideration.

This course is supported by ScreenSkills, by the Unscripted TV Skills Fund thanks to contributions from broadcasters, SVoDs and production companies.

This course would normally cost participants to attend, but thanks to this support, we are able to offer it to you for free. If you fail to attend, we reserve the right to request reimbursement of costs, unless your place can be taken by someone else.