Learning about the unconscious dynamics specific to the online medium has become increasingly important.
This course aims to support organisations to make best use of online capabilities; and it is for consultants and clinicians who work online.
The University of Essex presents this practice-based, professional development training programme held over four full days, with an international staff team of leading practitioners.
Remote working is an inevitable part of organisational life today, presenting new challenges and requiring leaders, managers and team members to widen their competences. Through a unique combination of experiential learning, practice and an exploration of key theoretical concepts, this interactive training programme will equip you with a greater capacity to recognise, understand and manage the visible and invisible dynamics of remote working, within your respective roles, at the individual, team and organisational levels.
Open to participants from all parts of the world. The programme takes place online, in live format.
This interactive 4-day training programme provides opportunities to learn about the visible and invisible dynamics of remote working, in real time.
- How do we communicate, collaborate, and remain engaged around a shared purpose, in digital and dispersed teams? What happens to feelings of isolation and involvement, or to the dynamics of competition?
- How do we influence one another and manage conflict? Or lead a productive and creative decision-making process, from our screens?
- As managers, how do we motivate our teams, foster a sense of belonging and promote a working culture that can best support our organizational goals, when working remotely?
Matthew Gieve, Senior Researcher and Consultant at TIHR, will be taking up a staff role on the programme, seeking to provide participants and staff alike with a deeper understanding of the conscious and unconscious dynamics of working virtually.
This is a subject that has increasingly interested me, how people and organisations have adapted, first to the enforced move online during the pandemic and now to the legacy of those changes. As my own work increasingly takes place in virtual or hybrid settings, I see it as a chance to explore the limits and possibilities of the medium.
Matthew Gieve, senior researcher and consultant, TIHR
The course is an opportunity to focus on how people and organisations have adapted, first to the enforced move online during the pandemic and now to the legacy of those changes.
Matt explains: “As my own work increasingly takes place in virtual or hybrid settings, I see the course as a chance to explore the limits and possibilities of the medium. The goal is to move beyond the simple, and often unfavourable, comparison with face-to-face work, to study unique features of the virtual environment that are both distinct and ‘real’, leaving room to recognise the varied emotional experience of virtual groups, as well as the particular cultures and behaviours that emerge therein”.
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