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InteleWorks,
Inc. provides consulting and training to help
make good employers, good managers and good employees even better through
the formalization of telework activities and other flexible work arrangements.
The company, established in 1991, is privately held and based in Peachtree
City, Georgia. Michael Dziak, president of InteleWorks, is a consultant,
speaker, trainer and published author who helps companies maximize business
potential through telework.
InteleWorks has helped develop
dozens of telework programs for employers such as the State of Georgia,
BellSouth, Fulton County, and Georgia Power. As a nationally recognized
telework expert, Dziak has been featured on CNN’s Science and Technology
Week and in the Wall Street Journal, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
USA Today, the Planet IT Mobile Tech Center roundtable, ComputerWeek Magazine,
Entrepreneur Magazine and other media.
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Services and products
available from InteleWorks include
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Telework
Consulting: We provide professional business-case analysis, planning,
development, implementation, expansion, evaluation and overall success-management
of employer telework/telecommuting programs and other flexible work arrangements.
Whether you are just starting out, want to formalize your telework activity,
want to expand your current program, or wish to have a telework philosophy
permeate your corporate culture, InteleWorks can help. Call us for an estimate
and business proposal.
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Telework
Training and Certification: InteleWorks offers telework certification
training for teleworker, telemanagers and trainers. Customized courses
teach teleworkers the responsibilities and expectations of remote work,
time management, use of communications technology, prevention of overwork,
separating work from family life, and other essential skills. Telework
managers learn such skills as remote management, employee empowerment,
use of effective communications, and fair treatment of non-teleworkers.
Telework trainers become certified to teach these courses. Click
here for a list of many more questions that InteleWorks Certification
Programs can address for your organization.
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The
RemoteControl System Pro: This
self-paced telework program implementation manual provides a step-by-step
guide to developing plans, a business case, best-practices policies, procedures,
selection criteria, technology options, legal documents, participant training,
and remote worker performance metrics and is available online at the inteleworks.com
web page
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Telecommuting
Success: This
recently released title is a practical telecommuter's guide for staying
in the loop while working away from the office, and is available in bookstores
nationally.
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InteleWorks Training
and Consulting Services
For over a dozen years, InteleWorks professionals
have assisted large, medium and small employers execute highly effective
telework programs. Our services are logically divided into
Descriptions of these services are provided
below.
1. Telework Business-Potential Audit
and Business Consulting: How will telework affect your organization?
How much telework activity is already going on? How much will telework
cost and what kind of return can you expect? How effective is your current
policy and training? What risk is your organization facing with informal
telework activity? What are the secondary benefits your organization could
gain through a well designed telework program and other flexible work arrangements?
We can provide answers to these and other questions through our Telework
Business-Potential Audit and Business Consulting services. These services
include:
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Teleworking and Commuting Baseline Information
Gathering
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Employee-Base Attitudinal Discovery and Resistance
Identification
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Telework Cost Estimation and Data Collection
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Remote Work Business Case Development
and Executive Presentation
2. Telework Program Planning and Development
Consulting: Whether you are starting your program from scratch or wish
to improve your existing program, InteleWorks professionals will help create
the proper telework foundation based upon nearly a dozen years experience
in implementing best practice flexible work techniques with large and small
employers. These services include:
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Program Planning and Implementation Workshop
for the Telework Task Team
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Telework Objectives Identification and Development
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Telework Policy and Procedures Development
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Program Participant Identification Guidelines
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Technology Tools Effectiveness Assessment
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Telework Program Budget Development
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Executive Briefings (including development
and/or presentations)
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Development and Deployment of Performance
Measurement Tools
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Direct connections with suppliers of quality
products and services that will accelerate telework effectiveness and reduce
program costs
3. Telework Program Implementation
Consulting: Once your program and plan is in place, InteleWorks professional
consultants and trainers thrive on introducing telework and flexible work
activities in highly resistive environments. In this stage, the
program is introduced to employees, a demonstration program begins, the
telework policy and procedures are tested, then telework activity is managed,
monitored and improved to assure long-term success. These services include:
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Telework Demonstration Program Implementation
and Management
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TeleWorker Orientation and Training
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TeleManager Orientation and Training
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Telework Program Coordinator and Trainer Training
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Remote Office Design Guidance
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Internal Marketing and Communications
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External Marketing and Communications
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Program Deployment and Expansion Planning
4. Telework Results Assessment and
Long Term Planning Consulting: One of the most challenging components
of flexible work is establishing and recording valid program results metrics.
InteleWorks uses a variety of proven tools designed to gather critical
information and organize it as useful data. Some of these services include:
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Program Results Surveys
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Program Participant Focus Groups and Interviews
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Program Results Summary and Recommendations
Click
Here for a List of Other Services from InteleWorks
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How do we get started?
Through a no-charge "Telework Potential
Review Session, our professionals can determine how your organization can
best utilize remote work applications, then we'll apply technology-based
organizational development solutions to best meet those needs.
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