Working Virtually: Working Virtually with Your Boss
Learning objectives
- Recognize the unique challenges and opportunities of managing up in a virtual work environment.
- Establish effective communication rhythms that align with your boss’s preferences and priorities.
- Demonstrate strategies to build trust and credibility through consistent follow-through and transparency.
- Collaborate with your boss to set expectations, clarify goals, and manage workloads effectively.
- Adapt to changes in priorities or feedback while maintaining a positive and solutions-oriented relationship.
Course overview
Remote work changes how your boss sees your performance. They no longer observe your effort in real time, so your communication, follow-through, and results shape their perception of your reliability and professionalism. When you align on expectations, establish a clear communication rhythm, collaborate on priorities, and maintain a human connection, you make distance irrelevant. Strong virtual partnerships rely on intentional habits that build trust and reduce misunderstandings before they grow.
The individuals involved in the development and promotion of this course do not receive any compensation or financial benefits outside of their regular employment for their work on this course.
- 6 minutes
- Format: Video
- Tier: 1
- Course ID: 8569
English
Course Outline
- Setting the Ground Rules Together
- Finding a Rhythm With Your Boss
- Collaborating on Priorities and Workload
- Keeping the Human Connection