ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY USING VIRTUAL COLLABORATION TOOLS

ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY USING VIRTUAL COLLABORATION TOOLS

Funded

Course Duration

16.0 hr(s)

Mode of Assessment

Assessment is to be conducted under SSG’s current standards for the specific framework. There are 2 assessment methods in this module: 1)Written Assessment 2) Practical Assessment

Who Should Attend

This course is targeted at the general public or executives with vested interest in learning about productivity improvement in the modern workplace, especially through the use of cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools. They may hail from either small-medium enterprises, multinational companies, and public service agencies from various sectors. They may be from different in-dustries or currently unemployed and considering a return to the workforce. Employed workers may attend as individuals seeking to upskill themselves or identified and sent for training by their compa-nies. Industries that participants may hail from, include but are not limited to, hospitality, retail, manufac-turing, etc. It can benefit participants from small-medium enterprises, multinational companies, and public service agencies from various sectors and industries. Anyone interested in productivity man-agement, as enabled by cloud technology, may also gain from attending the course.

Course Overview

To ensure business continuity, companies must expedite their digital transformation process and enable employees to work from home effectively. Remote working, which will be the new normal in the foreseeable future, will entail office workers to adapt to working together in offsite situations.

This course is targeted at the general public or executives with vested interest in learning about productivity improvement in the modern workplace, especially through the use of cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools.

Hybrid Work Environment

To ensure business continuity, companies must expedite their digital transformation process and enable employees to work from home effectively. Remote working, which will be the new normal in the foreseeable future, will entail office workers to adapt to working together in offsite situations.

This course trains supervisors or team leaders in learning about productivity improvement in the modern workplace, especially through the use of cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools to manage the hybrid work environment.

Next available schedule

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

  1. Explain the concept of productivity at work and its importance
  2. Recognise the needs and benefits of productivity improvement through the use of virtual collaboration
  3. Identify factors that impact productivity improvement in the implementation of virtual collaboration tools
  4. Apply the appropriate productivity measurement at the workplace before the implementation of virtual collaboration tools
  5. Apply the appropriate virtual collaboration tools and techniques for productivity improvement
  6. Document productivity performance of tools and techniques used for virtual collaboration

Pre-requisites

Prior to attending this course, trainees should be able to:

  • Read and write English at a proficiency level equivalent to ES WS level 4
  • Communicate information effectively and work in a team
  • Plan and organise resources and activities to complete work activities within timeframes
  • Possess intermediate ICT skills

Course Outline

LU1: What is productivity

  • Defining productivity
  • Importance of productivity and its influence on work performance

 

LU2: Optimising workflows and processes

  • Benefits of higher productivity for businesses and staff
  • Incentives to achieve higher productivity for the business
  • Collaborative technology as a mean of achieving increased productivity

 

LU3: Measuring Productivity

  • Factors effecting productivity goals enabled by online collaborative technologies
  • Technology, equipment, materials, competency in using online collaborative tools
  • Typical measurements of productivity

 

LU4: Creativity, collaboration and communication

  • Introduction to Cloud technology and virtual collaboration
  • Advantages and challenges of cloud-based collaboration
  • Future of collaboration and Virtual Teams
  • Introduction to cloud-based collaboration tools
  • Cloud-based collaborative platforms
  • Cloud-based file hosting services
  • Digital notebook
  • Data generation and presentation using application
  • Interactive web-canvas as a presentation and collaborative tool
  • Document productivity performance with usage analytics of collaborative tools and techniques

Certificate Obtained and Conferred by

SSG’s Statement of Attainment (SOA) will be awarded to learners who have achieved 75% attendance and are Competent (PASS) in their assessment.

Additional Details

Course Fee Payable 
Individual Pricing w/o GST w GST
 Course Fee $500.00 $535.00
SkillsFuture Funding, >=21 yrs old $228.00 $263.00
SkillsFuture Funding, >=40 yrs old $100.00 $135.00
     
Corporate Pricing    
Non-SME w/o GST w GST
Course Fee $500.00 $535.00
SkillsFuture Funding, >=21 yrs old $228.00 $263.00
SkillsFuture Funding, >=40 yrs old $100.00 $135.00
     
SME w/o GST w GST
Course Fee $500.00 $535.00
Enhanced Training Support for SMEs Companies $100.00 $135.00

Prices does not include pre & post assessment fees and subject to GST and other LHUB miscellaneous fees

Note: SkillsFuture Funding, >=21 yrs old : Applicable to Singapore Citizen/PR 

  SkillsFuture Funding, >=40 yrs old : Applicable to Singapore Citizen ONLY

Course reference code in SkillsConnect:

  • For Training Grant application, please use the following reference code

Reference code: CRS-Q-0041667-HAS

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