Making Remote Work Vol. 4 Issue 15

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4-H Remote Skills Camp for College & Career Readiness

Applications are now open for the 4-H Remote Skills Camp!! If you're nervous about graduating and starting life in college or a potential career, this month-long course is designed to help you prepare for your next step!

Cost: $50, financial assistance is available for those who qualify.

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Rethinking Remote Workplace Design Post-COVID

Join remote work experts as they share ideas and tools for being intentional about workplace design and managing distributed teams of remote employees. This isn’t the tired old remote work conversation we’ve had over and over year. This is about the future. Are you ready to take your remote work design plans to the next level?

Grow with Google: Building Digital Resilience: Remote Work Skills Training for Military Spouses

Cost: Free

Blue Star Families, Hiring Our Heroes, the USO & Grow with Google

Host: USU Blanding SBDC

Co-Host: Rural Online Initiative

When: April 26, 2021 | 9 AM – 10 AM

Join Blue Star Families, Hiring Our Heroes, and the USO for a conversation about the importance of digital skills for military spouses. In addition, Grow with Google will show you how to discover remote job opportunities using Google Search, and help you organize and enhance your job search experience using Google’s productivity tools.Products: Job Search on Google, Google Sheets

USDA Will Loosen its Telework Policy, Consider New Remote Work Options

Studies show 55% of communication is body language, while 38% is tone of voice, and 7% is the actual words spoken; thus, 93% of communication is nonverbal. When cameras are off, digital presenters lose more than half of the nonverbal information afforded by face-to-face situations.

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Tweet of the week:

Best remote work advice I got:

🪑get a great chair

🗣understand async

✍️over-communicate

🆘ask for help regularly

🥗go to lunch with people

🏃‍♂️pick up an active hobby

✈️travel as much as you can

⏰learn when to finish the day

❤️more time for family & friends

What is yours?

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