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Virtual remote learning & collaboration tips, content-sources, tools !

Remote working is now the normal!

Many people try to make the best out of this situation and learn and acquire new skills. Others just need to work and learn remote and virtual now for business continuity.  To support everyone we collected the below tips & helpful ressources and hope they help you.

Together with the SAP Community we enhanced those tips further. From march to June 2020 we run the mission “Remote Learning Advisor” and many SAP Community members contributed with great input. You can find them in the comments section below the blog.

 

 

Tips for remote learning & working

Place

  • Ensure the right furniture to avoid back-pain. To stand up sometimes you might put your laptop on a box or window board
  • Ensure propper equipment (Headset. Laptop) if not possible BYOD bring your own device – everyone has smartphones!
  • Connectivity, stable internet connection incl. access to company network via VPN
  • Discuss with the ones you live which spaces are used by whom for work

Health & body

  • Ensure breaks (stand up),
  • Exercise – from yoga to stepper – there are many great apps for guidance. Free e.g. and extensive is e.g. the Nike Training Team (NTC)
  • Time to relax and calm-down: practice a daily mindfulness or meditation session via guided apps – a good list is here – on Spotify you find guidance in the Genre Meditation

Values & Mindset

  • Remote learning & working needs trust in self-organization as everyone has another context (family, space, equippment etc.) and needs to organize the own productivity
  • Clear goals & tasks and regular communication help to keep on track and be motivated
  • Self discipline is important as you do not have the drivers of colleagues or managers meeting you in person- online-sessions for parallel work can help (like a virtual co-working space)
  • Respect, appreciation & empathy if others are not reachable, or work focused on their learnings/ tasks without interruption
  • Some find it helpful if they use similar clothes like at work to be more in a “work” mode

Learning Methods / LearnHacks

  • Set goals & timeslots (via your calendar) for learning.
  • Develop a learning plan on how to achieve your goals
  • Also use a daily plan e.g. via a Kanban Board with your family (joint breaks, school support etc.)
  • Break up your learning goal into many small steps & plan regular tasks to achieve it – plan it like a project
  • You can use a timer, an app or the pomodoro technique (25 min) to learn focused
  • Don´t forget to plan self-reflection & hands-on-practice
  • To focus and avoid distraction/ procrastination it might help to listen to chill-music like in brain.fm or e.g. Genre “Focus” on Spotify
  • Ensure social support like via a learning buddy, mentor or coach
  • Think of energizer tasks – e.g. find a red thing in your room and show it in the webcam, change location (e.g. outside, stand-up)
  • Document your progress – for your self e.g. in blogs, mindmaps, whiteboards, wikis, digital-notes like evernote/ one-note – also collaborative with your team and network
  • Develop routines like daily standup meeting with team, but also your family
  • Ensure to meet via video to create social interaction & emotional rapport
  • Find examples how others learn remote and learn from them
  • Retrospective in the evening or end of the week
  • Create virtual private sessions with NO work talk
  • Leverage personal productivity methods from time management or GTD (Getting Things Done)
  • A virtual LernOS Circle combines many elements (guidance, social support…) → https://cogneon.github.io/lernos-core/
  • Leverage further LearnHacks: Collection of Tips & Tricks for effective learning via the SAP Community or templates for download
  • There are already different experiences in learning from home – see e.g. the blog: Learning from home: Lessons from Speexx (a language learning company)
  • If you design Learning Experiences: here are tips for Learning Experience Design

Learning Content Sources 

Tools for Learning & Collaboration

I use Zoom for Videokonferences, Teams for collaboration & telephony, Jam & MSTeams as Enterprise social Network, Mural for Brainstorming – however check out what is best for you and your business + check out further lists if you need further guidance:

The mission to earn the “Remote Learning Advisor” badge has ended, however all further comments below are still very welcome.

Original Article:
https://blogs.sap.com/2020/03/30/virtual-remote-learning-tips-content-sources-tools-new-mission/

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