Work from Home for Professionals

Learn how to stay productive and motivated when working from home.

Work from Home for Professionals

The startling truth is, people want to work from home, whether telecommuting, doing remote work for a large organisation, or setting up their own home business.

After all, it seems like the perfect answer to the age-old problem of how to balance home and work life. By combining the two, you get the best of both worlds, every day … right?

Working from home can be an exciting and even life-changing shift in the way you work.

The key to success lies in doing exactly what you are now: taking the time to learn how to optimise the experience. Congratulations! You’re already on the right track!

In this course, which you can proceed at your own pace, we're going to visit some of the benefits of working from home, but we also have to spend a little time on the pitfalls. You have access for six months.

From there, you're going to learn how to create the proper atmosphere if you want to successfully work from home. And some tips on how to be more productive.

There are also a lot of additional resources to provide information and guidance.

Price: $A37

What will I get in this course?

This course comprises the following elements:

Four (4) lessons, plus an introduction and conclusion, covering benefits, pitfalls, atmosphere and productivity.
Each lesson includes a short video (all less than 10 mins), transcript, audio and reflection exercises
eBook you can read online or PDF download for offline reading
Audiobook (mp3s in zip file) you can download and listen offline resources, including a quick summary, checklist, infographic and posters
Bonus report - Power of Personality: Traits You Need to Make Working from Home Work for You - you can read online or download
Bonus - 10 digital productivity tools (video, text and audio versions)

Course Curriculum

Start here
2 Lessons
- Course introduction and overview
  Start
- 7 Course Completion Secrets
  Start
Introduction
1 Lesson
- Introduction
  Start
1. The Benefits of Working from Home
1 Lesson
- The Benefits
  Start
2. The Pitfalls of Working from Home
1 Lesson
- The Pitfalls
  Start
3. The Work from Home Atmosphere
1 Lesson
- The Atmosphere
  Start
4. Work from Home Productivity
1 Lesson
- Productivity
  Start
Conclusion
1 Lesson
- Conclusion
  Start
eBook
1 Lesson
- eBook - read online or download PDF
  Start
Audiobook
1 Lesson
- Audiobook - download for offline listening
  Start
Resources
4 Lessons
- Summary - quick summary of contents
  Start
- Checklist - download (fillable PDF)
  Start
- Infographic - 20 tips
  Start
- Work from Home Success Posters
  Start
Bonus Report - Power of Personality
1 Lesson
- Bonus Report - Power of Personality
  Start
Bonus - Digital productivity tools
10 Lessons
- Slack: Messaging, Project Management
  Start
- Asana: Project Management
  Start
- Google: Calendar, Web-conferencing, File Sharing, Editable Documents
  Start
- Zoom: Web conferencing
  Start
- Todoist: Productivity
  Start
- Trello: Project Management
  Start
- Toggl: Time Tracking
  Start
- Evernote: Note Taking, Productivity
  Start
- Mindfulness: Meditation
  Start
- Seven: Exercise
  Start
Articles and Videos
10 Lessons
- Ergonomic Tips
  Start
- Best Practices
  Start
- Control Your Inbox
  Start
- Invigorate Your Work
  Start
- Health Benefits
  Start
- Healthy Work-Life Balance
  Start
- Avoid Procrastination
  Start
- Keep Your Home Office Organised
  Start
- Stay Healthy
  Start
- Security Tips
  Start

Phil Charles

Professor Phil Charles is a practitioner and skilled educator and trainer with wide-ranging experience in government, consulting and academia. He has extensive experience in strategy development, business cases, transport planning and operations and professional capability development.

Phil is an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Queensland and has qualifications in civil engineering, transport, business and public administration and higher education.