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Telecommuting: Creating & Managing a Cost-Effective Flexible Workforce

Course Description:

Telecommuting, once considered a fad to combat skyrocketing fuel costs, has become a veritable workplace life raft in today’s economic climate. 

Not a surprise when you consider the bottom line benefits and added value telecommuting offers to employee benefits.

Yet, while the flexibility of a teleworkforce can be a win-win for both the employer and employee, implementing an informal remote working policy can have detrimental legal ramifications on your organization.  From wage and hour issues to OSHA compliance, an ad hoc program can quickly become your worst nightmare!

Let CCM show you how your organization can benefit from a well-run telecommuting program.  In this indispensable audio conference, our expert faculty will help you to determine which elements are important to include when crafting your flexible work policy, and the common pitfalls you’ll want to avoid.

In just 75-minutes, you will learn how to:

• Identify job types that are suitable for remote work
• Evaluate candidates for telecommuting consideration based on a number of factors including: work ethic and performance
• Set clear criteria to assess productivity over the short and long term
• Train managers and staff to accommodate workload, time, resources and expectations
• Maintain the security and confidentiality of your data and work product
• Limit liability to ensure the various safety issues surrounding work from home employees

Plus, by the end of this must-attend session, you’ll also know:

• Common telecommuting pitfalls – and how to avoid them
• How to make sure your stay-at-home workers are safe and productive
• Why you need to consider wage and hour and workers’ compensation laws when implementing a teleworking program
• How to effectively handle workers who want to work from home but aren’t the best candidates for it
  

Featured Faculty:

Phil Montero, Founder, YouCanWorkFromAnywhere.com, and CEO, Montero Consulting

An advocate of working virtually?  It would be more precise to say that Phil Montero is an evangelist for distributed work. He’s been the spearhead of the remote work movement for more than a decade: teaching how to work effectively from a home office, the road, or practically anywhere.

The consultant, writer, speaker, and coach is the founder of YouCanWorkFromAnywhere.com and CEO of Montero Consulting, an eBusiness and workplace consulting firm that assists organizations to leverage mobile work technology and create effective virtual teams.

Montero, author of Lose Your Commute and a series of mobile work tip books, has been cited, quoted, and reviewed in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, PC World, Telecommuting for Dummies and more.

His blog, TheAnywhereOffice.com, takes a big picture approach to the philosophies and strategies of navigating today's digital lifestyle while covering topics such as work life balance, virtual teams, mobile work technology, and internet marketing.

Jeff Zbar, Founder, ChiefHomeOfficer.com

Jeff Zbar founder of ChiefHomeOfficer.com works with corporations hoping to better target the small business and emerging home office and teleworking markets, as well as those individuals striving to enter or excel in those arenas. Jeff serves as a Subject Matter Expert for marketers to help them understand and target small business owners and home officers. Several times a year, Jeff partners with top brands in the small or home office (SOHO) segment to host satellite and ground media tours, and frequently is engaged to lead seminars, moderate panel discussions or present as a keynote speaker on topics related to entrepreneurship trends, home officing, telework, and emerging work trends.

Part expert, part spokesman, Jeff is all insight - revealing how the latest technology, Web services and other products can help small business owners, home officers, teleworkers and many others work more efficiently and live more completely amid a balanced work/life experience.

Rachel Hastings, Vice President, WFC Resources Inc.

Rachel Hastings is Vice President of WFC Resources Inc. She has over 17 years experience in international business and marketing and has also lived and worked in the U.K. and Mexico. She has worked with the public and private sectors in refocusing services toward changing demographic profiles and in considering the needs of the future workforce and workplace. Rachel works with employers to implement policies and practices which bring about flexible, effective and innovative work practices. She speaks to and trains groups of all sizes , from C-level through to employees. She was also the project manager for an award-winning local government initiative in the UK which brought together an inter-agency group of health and social services workers, building relationships and utilizing technology to enable them to work collaboratively in rural areas.

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE:

We're so confident you'll get what you want out of this conference that we'll refund every penny if you're not completely satisfied. No questions asked! It's 100% risk-free!

Pricing:

Unable to Attend?  Order the CD!
Your CD recording includes the complete audio conference presentation, audience Q&A and presentation materials.

APPROVED FOR RECERTIFICATION CREDIT:

HRCI - Receive 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

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