Be flexible with what you would normally do. We're all WFH and I have one new staff member and a grad to try and support (both in different cities). One of them made the comment that the test questions and test exercises we run them through in our induction program just felt extra boring when doing them from home and I 100% get that, when you're new you want to feel like your part of the team. If your learning in the office its one thing, but learning at home makes it worse. So we decided to mix in some actual work with the training exercises just to give them some work that has an impact.
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Good advice - we're looking at our training away currently!
We've a similar issue in some of the team are just finding it hard to focus on "not real work" when not in the office... problem is some asked to upskill in areas we don't have projects / content around - rattling my brain at some way to keep them engaged!
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Be flexible with what you would normally do. We're all WFH and I have one new staff member and a grad to try and support (both in different cities). One of them made the comment that the test questions and test exercises we run them through in our induction program just felt extra boring when doing them from home and I 100% get that, when you're new you want to feel like your part of the team. If your learning in the office its one thing, but learning at home makes it worse. So we decided to mix in some actual work with the training exercises just to give them some work that has an impact.
Good advice - we're looking at our training away currently!
We've a similar issue in some of the team are just finding it hard to focus on "not real work" when not in the office... problem is some asked to upskill in areas we don't have projects / content around - rattling my brain at some way to keep them engaged!