UNLV Human Resources and Organizational Development are screening and curating resources to support and help campus work remotely. This list will be updated on an ongoing basis to continue to best support campus. Please contact Erin Collier, Director of Organizational and Employee Development at erin.collier@unlv.edu or 702-895-0676 if you have any suggestions or questions.
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Video Resources for Working Remotely
On Leadership
Leading in a time of crisis (30 minutes)
- Korn Ferry
- Now is a time for leaders to remind yourselves of what your people need you to do, and to pause and think about what type of leader you need to ‘be’ for others. We won’t have all the answers, and silence isn’t an effective response. We need to meet people where they are and understand their concerns, and we want them to stay adaptable and focused as our ways of working and the work itself changes.
On Remote Teams
Managing Virtual Teams (3 minutes, 23 seconds)
- LinkedIn Learning, Daisy Lovelace, Professor, Consultant, and Coach.
- Learn how to manage a virtual team. Discover how to set shared goals, delegate tasks, manage performance, and develop each member of the team.
Challenges of virtual collaboration (4 minutes)
- LinkedIn Learning, Carol Kinsey Goman, international speaker, specializing in the impact of body language on leadership.
- Learn how to lead collaboratively. Build more collaborative relationships within your team and throughout the organization.
Tools for virtual teams (4 minutes)
- LinkedIn Learning, Tatiana Kolovou, Faculty Member at Kelly School of Business.
- Learn tools for honing your communication skills in a virtual environment.
Communicating-in-virtual-meetings (3 minutes, 10 seconds)
- LinkedIn Learning, Daisy Lovelace, Professor, Consultant, and Coach.
- Learn how to develop practical communication practices in virtual meetings.
Keeping your people engaged and productive through the crisis (30 minutes)
- Korn Ferry
- As more companies ask their employees to work virtually, maintaining high levels of engagement and productivity won’t be easy. With a proven approach to remote connections and team management, it can be done well and set up employees for a seamless return to regular ways of working.
On Working Remotely
Working from Home (11 minutes)
- YouTube, Lisa Barrington, Barrington Coaching.
- Tips for working from home due to COVID-19.
On Health and Wellness
An introduction to mindfulness (three short videos, 7 minutes total)
- LinkedIn Learning, Henna Inam, Coach, Author, and former C-Level Leader at Fortune 500 companies.
- Mindfulness reduces stress, increases focus, and improves your ability to deal with challenges, both at work and at home. This introduction to mindfulness includes:
- Becoming mindful at work
- Why mindfulness?
- The basics of good (mindfulness) practice
Managing Stress for Positive Change (multiple, short LinkedIn Learning videos, 57 minutes total)
- In the workplace, stress is often viewed in purely negative terms. It's seen as a response that should simply be minimized or pushed aside; however, it's possible to use stress to fuel positive change. In this course, join instructor Heidi Hanna, PhD (speaker, author, and globally recognized stress and resilience expert) as she discusses what stress is, exactly; how you can train yourself to use stress in more effective ways; and what managers can do to reduce employee stress when an organization experiences difficult times. She covers how individuals can use stress for good by assessing and adjusting it, as well as what you-as a manager-can do to create an environment and communication style that helps connect employees to the bigger picture.
How to Manage Feeling Overwhelmed (multiple, short LinkedIn Learning videos, 43 minutes total)
- Feeling overwhelmed is common. It’s a sign that the demands on your time and energy have surpassed your ability to cope with them. Sometimes overwhelm is temporary; other times, it can lead to persistent and unhealthy pressure and strain. The good news is that with the right mindset you can make the unmanageable feel manageable again. In this course from stress expert and performance coach Heidi Hanna, PhD, you can learn how to identify and conquer that overwhelmed feeling—so you can remain focused, productive, and in control in the face of whatever comes your way. Discover how to disrupt the stress circuit, cultivate calm and positive emotions, and take small, imperfect steps toward resolution. Heidi also provides tips for recognizing and preventing the overwhelm, so it doesn’t get out of control the next time you have too much to do.
Sleep is Your Superpower (multiple, short LinkedIn Learning videos, 34 minutes total)
- Sleep is mandatory. You can’t outsource it and you can’t negotiate it—and it has a powerful impact on everything you do while you’re awake. So why not build habits to optimize your sleep and live your best life? Learn how to make sleep a priority and take steps to achieve sleep wellness. The Sleep Ambassador®, Nancy Rothstein, shares tips for optimizing sleep and performing at your best in work and life. Learn how to prioritize sleep, assess your sleep, create the right sleep environment, and adopt strategies to fall asleep and stay asleep. Nancy offers concrete, practical advice based on research and science—so you can master sleep as your superpower.
Article Resources for Working Remotely
On Leadership
- Accenture: “Human resilience: What your people need during COVID-19,” multiple authors
- Divvy: “How to Empower your Remote Employees,” by Nicole Kunz
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Harvard Business Review: “15 Questions About Remote Work, Answered,” by Tsedal Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School and the founder of the consulting firm Global Matters.
On Remote Teams
- Harvard Business Review: “A Guide to Managing Your (Newly) Remote Workers” by Barbara Z. Larson, executive professor of management and director of partnerships at Northeastern’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business; Susan R. Vroman, lecturer of management at Bentley University; and Erin E. Makarius, associate professor of human resources in the management department of the College of Business Administration at the University of Akron
- Harvard Business Review: “Virtual Meetings (and classrooms) Don't Have to Be a Bore” by Andy Molinsky, a Professor of Organizational Behavior, Brandeis International Business School
- Forbes: “Leading Remote Workers: the Caronavirus' Impact on Effective Management” by Jason Wingard, Senior Contributor
On Work/Life Balance
- Harvard Business Review: “A Guide for Working (from Home) Parents” by Avni Patel Thompson, the founder and CEO of Modern Village
- Harvard Business Review: Balancing Work and Elder Care During the Coronavirus Crisis, by Liz O’Donnell is the founder of Working Daughter, a community for people balancing eldercare and career
- Harvard Business Review: How Working Parents Can Let Go of Perfectionism, by Alice Boyes, PhD is a former clinical psychologist turned writer
- Harvard Business Review: Working Parents, Save Time for Hobbies, by Scott Behson, Professor of Management at Fairleigh Dickinson University
On Health & Wellness
- Business Insider: "What to do if you're isolated with an abuser during the pandemic, according to women's shelter and anti-domestic violence advocates," by Michelle Juergen
- Harvard Business Review: “Build Your Resilience in the Face of a Crisis” by Rasmus Hougaard, founder and managing director of Potential Project, and Jacqueline Carter, partner and the North American Director of Potential Project
- Harvard Business Review: “Coping with Fatigue, Fear, and Panic During a Crisis,” by Tony Schwartz, president and CEO of The Energy Project and Emily Pines, managing director at The Energy Project.
- Mindful: Zoom Exhaustion is Real by Steve Hickman
- UNLV Today: “Combatting Caronavirus Stress,” by Heather Dahl, assistant professor, department of Counselor Education, School Psychology, and Human Services at UNLV’s College of Education
- UNLV Today: “Social Spacing: Deepening Connections While Staying Safe” by Stephen D. Benning, Ph.D., UNLV Psychology Assistant Professor
- UNLV Today: Staying Balanced During the Pandemic
- Focusing on the mental health of children helps UNLV psychiatrist Lisa Durette as she faces her own medical challenges
- UNLV Today: Tips for Staying Well in the Time of Caronavirus by Anne Weisman, director of wellness and integrative medicine at the UNLV School of Medicine
Podcast Resources for Working Remotely
On Leadership
- HBR IdeaCast: Adjusting to Remote Work During the Caronavirus Crisis (28:51)
- Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, says that there are simple ways leaders can help their employees stay productive, focused, and psychologically healthy as they work from home during the current global pandemic. The right technology tools and clear and constant communication are more important than ever. She recommends that managers do an official remote-work launch, carefully plan and facilitate virtual meetings, and pay extra attention to workers' behavior. For individual contributors, it's critical to maintain a routine but also embrace flexibility, especially if you're in the house with family.
- HRSA Podcast with Erin Collier on Compassionate Communication
On Remote Teams
- NPR Life Kit: 8 Tips to Make Working from Home Work for You (15 mins)
- Yuki Noguchi, Correspondent, Business Desk
- Article included.
- Dear HBR: Working While Distancing
- Are you suddenly working from home? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School. They talk through how to be productive at home whether you’re alone or distracted by children, how to care for your newly remote team and make sure they still get work done, or how to adapt when your job requires going outside and seeing people face-to-face.
On Work/Life Balance
- HBR IdeaCast: Working Parents, Let Go of the Idea of Balance (26 mins)
- Stewart Friedman, organizational psychologist at The Wharton School, and Alyssa Westring, associate professor at DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business, say it’s a mistake for a working parent to think of career and home life as competing interests that have to be balanced. Their research shows how many leadership skills apply to parenting, and vice versa. The professors explain how individuals can stop making tradeoffs and instead find sustainable ways to advance their careers and also parent more effectively. Friedman and Westring are the authors of the book "Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life.”
- NPR The Caronavirus Crisis: Caronavirus Triple Duty: Working, Parenting, and Teaching from Home (4 mins)
- Yuki Noguchi, Correspondent, Business Desk
- Article included
On Health and Wellness
- NPR-Take Care: Latest in Health—Step Off the Treadmill, Hike Into the Great Outdoors (3:46)
- For many Americans, an exercise routine looks like a lot of time indoors — treadmills, ellipticals, weights and more — but as one researcher can attest, the benefits of taking that workout outside, especially if it's for a hike through nature, can be more beneficial than exercise confined to gyms and homes. Dr. James Navalta , from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), is a fellow and associate professor in the department of kinesiology and nutrition science at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
App Resources for Working Remotely
On Health & Wellness
- The Smiling Mind
Smiling Mind is a unique tool developed by psychologists and educators to help bring balance to your life. Practice your daily meditation and mindfulness exercises from any device.