For remote companies and workers, webinars help us experience the “in-person” events that we might not be able to attend. Webinars are also a great way for remote workers and companies to keep up with the changing remote work industry and the future of work. However, not all webinars are the same. We combed the web for the best, current, and thought-provoking webinars that will help you make the best out of your remote work career or company. And since most webinars are participatory, you can contribute your remote work experience or ask questions and also listen to experiences from others. Here are the webinars on remote work you wouldn’t want to miss.
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FlexJobs Webinar Series
If you’re looking for great remote and flexible work tips, either as a beginner or a veteran remote worker, there’s no better place to start than at FlexJobs’ Webinar series. The Webinar is packed with a lot of topics, from how to get into remote work to remote working for military spouses. The content is top-notch because participants and guests come from different sectors to share industry-specific knowledge when it comes to remote working. Watch this episode to enrich your resume for remote jobs.
The Ultimate Remote Work Summit
The Ultimate Remote Work Summit is a webinar from the team at Skillcrush, an online education platform with employees distributed around the world. This is a one-time webinar that spanned three days, where participants discussed a lot of topics, including how to create your dream remote career, be the first remote worker at your company, and how to succeed at your first remote job.
Remote Work: The great equalizer
In this Webinar, host Laurel Farrer talks about workplace discrimination, racism, and sexism among others, and how remote work, though not the magic solution, can help solve or reduce some of these issues in many companies. Laurel hammers on how virtual jobs are great for diversity and inclusion and what remote workers can do to have their voices heard. Laurel Farrer is a “Distributed Operations Consultant that collaborates with the world’s top remote-friendly companies to strengthen virtual communication, streamline digital processes, and develop long-distance management strategies”.
The Ultimate Remote Work Summit
The Ultimate Remote Work Summit is a webinar from the team at Skillcrush, an online education platform with employees distributed around the world. This is a one-time webinar that spanned three days, where participants discussed a lot of topics, including how to create your dream remote career, be the first remote worker at your company, and how to succeed at your first remote job.
Remote Work: The great equalizer
In this Webinar, host Laurel Farrer talks about workplace discrimination, racism, and sexism among others, and how remote work, though not the magic solution, can help solve or reduce some of these issues in many companies. Laurel hammers on how virtual jobs are great for diversity and inclusion and what remote workers can do to have their voices heard. Laurel Farrer is a “Distributed Operations Consultant that collaborates with the world’s top remote-friendly companies to strengthen virtual communication, streamline digital processes, and develop long-distance management strategies”.
The Remotive Webinar
Remotive is a remote work startup that believes that the future of work is remote. Apart from helping people go remote through remote-based job platforms, Remotive also educates the community through many media and this webinar series will get you started. The webinar is ideal for individuals wanting to find remote jobs and companies looking to go remote. In the latest webinar, available from 10th through to 31st March 2020, the team centers on the mistakes that companies or individuals do when going remote or looking for remote jobs and how they can overcome the hurdles ahead.
Preparing your team for remote work
If you’re looking for resources that will help you move your team to remote work, then this is a great webinar to start with. Brought to you by the team at Zoom, the popular “software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms”. The webinar, which is held on the 11th of March 2020, will discuss the steps that will help you move your team to remote, the tools to get you started, and how to get everyone onboard the remote work wagon. Speakers include Darren Murph, head of remote at GitLab and Nick Walsh, CMO at Range.
Get Remote Work Tips and Tricks Training
This is a webinar about everything remote work and produced by the team at VirtualPBX. A lot of remote work topics are discussed in this webinar. It helps dispel common remote work myths and highlights the benefits of adopting a remote work policy. It also provides remote work tips, introduces some great remote work tools, and illustrates the best practices for companies moving away from traditional work policies. This is a great one-time webinar to watch if you’re a remote worker looking for more tips to stay productive or if you’re a company looking to build a happy remote team culture. A great webinar on the tools and tricks fo the game.
Suddenly Remote?
Suddenly Remote? is a webinar series that varying topics in remote work, including the tools to help you stay communicative in a remote company, how companies can build a great team culture, how you can, as an individual remote worker, contribute to your company’s cultural success, and how to build trust in remote teams. This series is from the team at MURAL, “a digital workspace for visual collaboration… enables innovative teams to think and collaborate visually to solve important problems”. Listen to this great episode.
How to select and develop remote workers
This webinar is from the PSI team, a talent management and e-assessment platform. In this webinar, remote companies and those trying to go remote will learn how to search for top remote talent, how to improve their skills to suit the company, and how to guide them to build the company together. “Join two of PSI’s senior consultants, Corina Rice and Jordon Jones, to discover the techniques and challenges of selecting and developing your remote employees”.
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