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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.

Then 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.”

Online; William A. Draves, lead instructor;  $195

Course Outline

Unit 1
Your Pyramid is Collapsing

• The implications of telecommuting on organizational structure
• Office based corporate culture vs. telecommuting corporate culture
• Redesigning your organizational chart as a network

Unit 2
New leadership skills

• Recruiting best talent in a global environment
• Defining, and redefining, the boundaries of your organization
• Reviewing and renewing your mission
• Redefining your organization’s unique selling proposition

Unit 3
Becoming a Virtual Organization

• Transition planning
• Strategic planning and organizational change
• Creating change within business organizations

Unit 4
Nine Shift: Work in the 21st Century

• Implications for work and travel
• How dense communities replace suburbs
• Creating social contacts in your community
• Rebuilding Community: community issues related to telecommuting.

About online learning

Online learning is a fun, enjoyable and very productive way to learn. Millions of people are learning online each year. You will engage with the instructor and other participants. You will get to know your instructor and other participants. You may make friends.  It’s easy. It’s fun. 

How the Course Works

It is easy to participate in your online course. After you register, you will be given a web address to go to get into your online classroom.  You will have a password and use your email address and password to gain access.

Once inside the online classroom, here’s what you can expect.

Participate when you want

Participants can participate as little or as much as you want.

You can participate any time of day or evening. The online classroom is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

There are no live real-time requirements or meetings. You decide when you participate.

For the best learning, participants should log into the course on 2-3 different days of the week.

What you will do

For each Unit, you will:

• Read the print readings (about 20 pages a week)
   
• Have the option of accessing the online readings
   
• Listen to the audio presentation for the Unit and view the slides
   
• Have the option of taking a self-quiz to see how much you have learned
   
• Engage in written online discussion with your instructor and other participants

For best learning, you should make one or more comments at 2-3 different times each week.
The content (readings, audio lectures, slides) and self quizzes are accessible for the entire course, so you can work ahead, or go back and review again, at your convenience.

Discussion

The Discussion for each Unit lasts one week.

All comments are made in writing and can be made at any time of the day or night.
Your instructor will log into the Discussion area at least once a day and answer questions, make comments, and respond to comments by you and the other participants.

We encourage you to make 2-3 comments each week to maximize your learning and enjoyment of the course.

It’s easy. It’s fun.

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About Your Instructor

William A. Draves is a leading futurist, speaker and co-author of “Nine Shift: Work, life and education in the 21st century.”

He has been working from home for over ten years and worked with his Board of Directors and Senior Management Team to transition to a virtual organization in 1998. 

He has keynoted conferences and done professional development seminars in Russia, Germany, England, Slovenia, Japan, Australia, Mexico, and all over Canada and the United States.

His NineShift blog has more than 2,000 readers a month, and he is the most quoted authority on lifelong learning in the nation’s media, having been interviewed by The New York Times, BBC, Wall Street Journal, NBC Night News and other news organizations.

Course Objectives

-To assist participants in exploring the larger organizational issues related to telecommuting and managing telecommuters.

-To provide participants with the understanding of how to transition from the corporate culture of an office based organization to a virtual organization supportive of telecommuting.

-To give participants an understanding of how organizational structures are moving from the pyramid to a network.

- To provide participants with knowledge about new leadership skills evolving to manage and lead successful organizations in this century.

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course, you will:
-Possess the information necessary to discuss the larger organizational issues related to telecommuting and managing telecommuters.

- Be able to outline your organizational structure as a network instead of a pyramid.

- Understand some of the new leadership skills evolving in virtual organizations.

- Understand how the corporate culture of an organization supportive of telecommuting differs from an office based corporate culture.

- Know the larger economic and societal shifts taking place in society as we move from the Industrial Age of the last century into the Information Age of this century, and how they relate to business organizations and managing telecommuters.