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Remote Working Tips & Tricks
Everyone hates being confined, restricted and staying put. But during this pandemic, across the world, we’ve all been bound to our homes, working for and from them. All the buzz on the social networks and news channels has been about the pandemic and how, as humanity, we are coping with these strange and uncertain times. It does seem like life will be divided into clear pre and post pandemic eras.
For the working world, there was a time when “WFH” was reserved for when we had unavoidable personal errands to run for part of the day – a doctor’s appointment, PTAs, vets appointments – or when we were working on something we needed to pay more attention to, for example a crucial project, an important presentation. So, WFH in pre-pandemic times was either a luxury or an aid for better concentration.
Now that we are forced to WFH, the concept no longer charms. We miss our buddies from work, the food we had to reheat before eating, and we definitely miss our office desks. And while everyone is wondering when this will be over, and when we go back to work, here are a few simple tips and tricks to make WFH more bearable.
“What gets measured gets managed”
Define your daily tasks and ensure you stay true to this list. Yes, a simple to-do list goes a long way. If you measure what you will complete in a day, you will be able to manage your day better. If you already do this, take it to the next level, by dividing your day into zones/slots and granularly divide your tasks into them. Check out tools like To-do list or Google Keep to help you manage your tasks easily.
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four-hour days.”
Although WFH gives you the benefit of flexible hours, it may help to stick to a defined work timing to help your body clock cope with this change. Stay disciplined throughout the day by consciously thinking of yourself being at work. Start the day early so you can wind down in the evening and relax with your family or do household chores. Don’t delay the start of your day thinking that you can make up for it later in the evening or at night. Remember that your body is not used to so much inactivity, and so adequate sleep and relaxation will be needed to keep your immune system healthy.
“Distracted from distraction by distraction”
Let’s check Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and even Linked every 15 minutes! Unless you work in marketing or handle your organization’s social media account, put a pause on the entertainment folder of your phone during the workday. One episode on Netflix does not hurt, but it does not help either.
“Don’t get bent out of shape”
Now that you are WFH, respect your office space. At work, you have a desk and a chair that keeps you comfortable. The office space is usually designed to keep you in ‘Good Form’, ‘Good Function’, and ‘Good Health’. Try to create office-like ergonomics at home, till the lockdown lasts. This will help in reducing all those aches and pains that result from sitting in bad postures through the day. Avoid sitting on your bed with your legs outstretched or on your living room furniture with your laptop on your lap. Elevate your laptop to just below eye level to help your eyes and your shoulders.
“Invest in Quality Technology”
Yes, setting up your home office or workspace may require a small investment. Much like starting a new business, you may have to purchase the right hardware or software, such as a desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone system to do your job every day.
A high-performance router will save you many a frustrated moment. Since working from home often requires more than chat messages, you need a router that will keep up. A router from several years ago might be prone to common network issues.
“Communicate with your co-workers, buddies, and Boss!”
Well, you’re all in the same boat, so no one knows what you’re going through more than them. Over communicate with your teams if you are a manager and speak to your Boss at least 2-3 times in a day. Sound them off on work status, discuss issues that you are facing, and inquire what they’re up to at home. Be approachable to all.
Besides the ones we’ve mentioned above, there are many tips and tricks that can help your WFH be more effective. Read as many articles as you want, but you will need to find your own equilibrium of what works for you.
5 Effective Ways of On-boarding Gen X
The key to a successful employee induction is a great on-boarding experience. Simple yet efficient, this process helps make a warm impact on your employers and retain excellent performers in the long run.
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Gen X (or Generation X are the people born between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s) have mostly already started their careers and are in their mid-life career wise as compared to the new young adults who have just taken a foot in the industry. Gen Xers are those who had working parents in their childhoods, because of wars, recession and many more reasons. It was because of this that they learnt to be free, independent, and have a set of goals or rules in their work ethic.
According to research they occupy 60% of the current workforce, engaging them is crucial for any organization’s fate. Gen Xers are ridiculed to be lax and lazy, as they do not have the same mindset as that of the generation before or after them. But in this stage where the employees who followed a hierarchical management are retiring and innocent, doe-eyed adults who know nothing of the company are entering, Gen X is the perfect employee to hire. But to recruit Gen X, you need to follow certain ways to have a strongly retained employee: Gen Xers prefer on-boarding programs that incorporate self-guided processes. So, designing the Induction Program which is comprehensive and yet interesting to Gen X is exceedingly essential.
Here are 5 things to do before building a particular on-boarding program that will ensure your employees have high-performance productivity and engagement:
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- Creating a Positive Atmosphere
Seeing that Gen X is approaching their 40s–50s, they would shift more into roles that allow them to lead. Born in the era where children had to be independent from a young age, they learnt to be pragmatic and cynical of adults. It makes sense for Gen X to lean more towards development and mobility. But they won’t hesitate to leave a job where they don’t feel valued or feel any room to grow skill wise.
Gen Xers are those who create and take nothing in return just work flexibility and freedom with their work, examples of such are the creators of Google, YouTube and Amazon. There is a simple approach in keeping a Gen X in the company and that is making sure they get as many projects to develop as possible to keep them satiated.
2. Designing Content Gen X Wants
According to Deborah Masten, HR Director for Plano, Gen X can’t be led by examples but interactions. They want to know what’s expected of them, and they want accurate and timely feedback. A systematic on-boarding process can plan out A to Z of a project to help both the employees and the employers. It can be done by systematic planning using any good on-boarding processes. ICE-Cube Induction Framework is one such framework that can help you in scoping out how, when and what to deliver to the new hires.
3. Make Learning Fun and Interactive
Make sure you don’t go bland in the on-boarding of Gen X; it is essential to not make them lose interest in you. Incorporate a modern portal that includes videos and gamified learning to make the process more interactive. Avoid monotonous presentations from obstructing fun on-boarding experience. Gen Cers maybe in their 40s, but they sure are tech savvy.
4. Go Mobile
Gen Xers love to work, develop and are happy to see their projects execute perfectly. This is the main difference of them from the previous generation, their ability to work with the Internet. Gen X can work from anywhere, anytime: and being shackled is their biggest pet peeve.
Gen Xers are self-reliant and thus if given the opportunity they can develop their own skill sets by applying their creativity and resources given to them by managers.
5. Appreciations & Rewards
Gen Xers have established a settled state in their life by working and have families as a priority. Flexibility makes sense from their perspective to spend time outside work. To recruit, retain and motivate Gen X, appealing to their needed work-life balance is a must. By giving them remote creative control over projects, giving immediate rewards and a good relationship with the team and managers are few ways of successful on-boarding of Gen X.
Given that 72% of companies have a bring your own device (BYOD) policy and allow employees to bring their own devices to work, Gen X has a higher chance of control over their schedules, decisions, responsibilities and creative freedom. The onboarding is a win-win for both the hir
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By Isha Repal, Content Writer at QuoDeck
Presenting The Current Trends In eLearning
The Most Prevailing Trends In eLearning
eLearning is a new era in the learning industry. It provides an individual with the flexibility to learn based on their own time, pace and availability. There are already many number of successful e learning platforms all over the internet like Udemy, Udacity, Teachable etc. or you can even create an e learning
platform from various custom eLearning development companies. The worth of the eLearning market was measured at $2.5 billion in 2013, $7.8 billion in 2016 and, according to numerous predictions, the number will likely grow into $15.72 billion by 2021. These figures show a huge financial contribution to the distance education field, which shows the huge potential of the eLearning market. As the eLearning industry is growing among the new generations, there are many pros and cons. Let’s have a look at those:
Pros
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Flexibility
One of the main advantages of eLearning is that it is flexible. It helps us to cope up with our busy schedules by letting us take the courses in small sections whenever we want. -
Mobility
It’s something that’s more useful in our busy schedules. In eLearning, we are able to learn from any location, such as a park, a bus, train, etc, instead of a confined classroom. -
Low Cost
In eLearning, we don’t require trainers’ fees or equipment, so it becomes more affordable. While the cost of traveling is taken into account, eLearning is a cheaper option. -
Performance Monitoring
The performance result after the end of each topic and module are portrayed statistically on a dashboard. It enables learners to self-assess their overall performance and improve themselves. The instructor is able to monitor their performance more easily than in traditional, offline education.
Cons
eLearning can never replace the need for a human instructor. Even if eLearning is useful in many ways, computers are able to complete all tasks due to:
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Lack Of Focus
Both learners with poor concentration and those who are poorly motivated may quickly fall behind the online course. Without a fixed time schedule or a routine, it’s difficult for learners to meet specific deadlines or goals. -
Lack Of Social And Cultural Interaction
In eLearning, peer-to-peer communication is minimal, which makes it challenging for some of the learners. -
Learners May Feel Isolated
Without interaction with the outside world, there is a probability of feeling isolated.
Even though there are many cons as regards eLearning, there have already been many successful eLearning platforms all over the internet like Udemy, Udacity, Teachable, etc. you can make great use of. Learners engagement is of prime importance to the success of eLearning platforms. These can be effective only if they present something that catches the learner’s attention for more than just study materials, such as:
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Group Discussions
A powerful discussion forum which revolves around the course will probably be the first option that makes eLearning interactive and much more engaging. On the other hand, simply having comment boxes on the article is unpleasant and difficult for the learners. -
Interactive Quizzes
Having questions asked after each session as a module assessment and an overall quiz for topic assessment are always interesting. -
Make Iit A Visual Treat For The Eyes
The use of slideshows and various multimedia gives learners the ability to stay on the task and be easily pulled into the topic.
What The Current Trends Are In eLearning
As in every sector where changes have occurred, eLearning has also undergone some. Therefore it’s high time we discussed what the current trends in eLearning are:
Mobile Learning
For the last few years, adoption of mLearning or mobile learning has been on the rise. It is flexible, the courses provided are responsive; i.e. it can run seamlessly on desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. The other main advantage of mLearning is that you can learn from wherever you are and whenever you want.
Microlearning
It deals with the short-term learning activity. The course that lasts for 60 minutes can be split into more bite-sized courses. It can be easier and more affordable to produce such courses and as well as to maintain them.
Gamification
It employs gaming elements so as to improve user engagement. It is a technique of transforming learning into a game. In this way, you can create a high impact and immersion.
Interactive Videos
Learning through videos will continue to maintain its own appeal. As a consequence, the way interactive video turn the passivity of regular videos into rich interactive experiences will see a rise and will be utilized for formal training, too, in addition to performance and support.
Social Learning
While there’s a need for formal training that meets specific learning outcomes, there should be an increase in programs for casual or social learning in which students can network, discuss, collaborate, and exchange thoughts on problem-solving.
This article was first published on : eLearning Industry
Reasons to Use Videos for Employee Training
Creating training videos is one of the most effective ways to develop your team, both in terms of cost and engagement. This Video highlights 6 reasons why Videos for employee training is important for their development.
I am a learner, on my learner dashboard there appears multiple courses, out of which some course cards do not have a card image, why so?
The QuoDeck creator application allows every course creator to choose card image for the course. It is likely that creator of given course have not uploaded any custom card image for that course. Please connect with your trainer if you wish to raise an issue on this.
I am a learner, In my Progress Report, there’s a green check mark on a few of the courses. What does it signify?
Congratulations, it signifies that you have completed that course successfully. The ‘Green Check Mark’, is the marker of the course completion.
How many slides can I have in my Interactive Deck?
Well we haven’t put any limit on the number of slides that can be included in a deck, but as per Micro Learning Principles, you should have 30 to 40 slides in your deck, we have observed that Learners were comfortable consuming the content, when there were up-to 40 slides in the deck.
What will be the size of my Interactive Deck? How does it affect my learner experience?
The size of your deck depends upon the type of learning content it wraps in itself, it will affect your learners experience if it is too heavy in size. Keep the following pointers in mind to keep your deck size moderate.
- Have moderate number of images in your deck say about 20% to 30%
- Make sure that the images are optimized with lossless image compression tools
- If your deck also includes PDF slides, make sure that the PDF is also losslessly compressed
How can I remove all slides from my Interactive Deck?
You can not remove all slides from your deck, there is a constraint to this. You need to have at least one slide in a deck. So keep deleting the slides till you reach a condition when there remains only one slide in the deck, delete button will be disabled.
This way you can remove slides from you deck with constraint of having at least one slide in it.
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