Demonstrate your knowledge.  Boost your employees’ productivity and your organization’s bottom line. 

An online certificate program from the Learning Resources Network (LERN), a leading provider of professional development and pioneer in telecommuting.

Take the three online courses, take a 50 question test, and document your knowledge in this important and growing area for business, government and nonprofit organizations.

All three online courses, plus exam and certificate, just $495 total.

HouseKeys to Telecommuting Success

Telecommuting is becoming the “mainstay of corporate America,” according to a recent MSNBC story.  Telecommuters are 25% more productive than people who work in an office, meaning your company is more profitable.

Come discover the keys to making telecommuting a success for you and your organization.  For those new to telecommuting and those already working from home. Includes 100 page guide to telecommuting.

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Field WorkerSupervising Telecommuters

You can supervise people from a distance better than people working down the hall from you in an office. But you have to supervise telecommuters differently than office workers.

Telecommuters boost your organization’s profitability, productivity, financial stability, competitiveness and efficiency. Plus you can recruit the best people regardless of where they live.

Tour a model virtual office. Then take away the 4 core management practices to supervise telecommuters for a win-win for both your employees and management. After attending, you will have the knowledge necessary to successfully supervise telecommuters.  Includes 112 page manual.

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LeaderLeadership Issues in Telecommuting

With telecommuters 25% more productive than office workers, virtual organizations will be superior to office-based organizations in the 21st century.

Find out how to transition your organization to remain competitive and position your organization for success.

Get leadership strategies to help your people work smarter, leaner, better, and with enhanced customer service.

Nine Shift Book CoverThen discover some of the new leadership skills evolving in running a networked organization, recruiting and keeping top talent.

Includes the instructors’ fascinating book “Nine Shift: Work, life and education in the 21st century.”

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ChecklistWhat You do:

  1. In the online classroom, listen to audio lectures, view slides, even take an optional quiz to test yourself.
     
  2. Then post comments in the online discussion with your fellow participants and the instructor.  Your instructor logs on once a day to answer questions and join in on the discussion.
     
  3. You also get a text to read 20 pages a week.
     
  4. Participate anytime of day or night, as little or as often as you like. The ideal is to go online 2-3 times a week, but you decide.


It’s easy! It’s fun.

ComputerTechnical requirements:
Internet access with Internet Explorer; FoxFire Mozilla; or Safari web browser.
Audio software such as Windows Media, Real, or Flash.

Speakers to listen to audio.

Next offerings:

Keys To Telecommuting Success
June 7- July 2, 2010

Supervision of Telecommuters
July 5 – 3, 2010

Leadership Issues in Telecommuting
August 8-August 27, 2010

About LERN

The Learning Resources Network (LERN) is a North American consulting and training organization in the areas of continuing education, online teaching and 21st century information skills.

In 1998 LERN became a virtual organization, allowing staff to live and work anywhere.  Staff and consultants now live in 8 U.S. states, Canada and India.

About three quarters of staff work from home, with the others working in two offices in Wisconsin and Kansas.

From our experience in telecommuting, supervising telecommuters and becoming a virtual organization, we have written a book and a manual on working from home from a business perspective.
  
Your instructors have each been telecommuting for 12 years.  They all write, speak and consult on telecommuting and managing telecommuters. They each have created productive home offices, supervised telecommuters, and engaged in strategic organizational planning.  

For more information on your instructors, see the web pages for each course.