by Kevin Eikenberry The hybrid workplace, for many of you is coming.  Perhaps you are already there. Perhaps the timeline keeps changing, but if you see a hybrid workplace in your future, the question posed in the title here is critical.  Is your team ready for this new working arrangement?  Are individuals ready for it?

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When you have a hybrid team, some of your team works in the office, some work from home, and some work who-knows-where depending on the day. That can make it hard to create a cohesive team. It isn’t that the team intentionally doesn’t want to work with people who don’t share their workspace, or that

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by Kevin Eikenberry Now that you are a leader get used to your role in implementing new policies. As long as there are organizations, there have been policies and procedures, and I don’t really expect that to change.  Today your organization may be asking you to implement policies related to hybrid and/or flexible work. While

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In the pre-pandemic world, there was a growing epidemic of loneliness, isolation, and decreasing mental health. And the impacts of a virus didn’t improve the situation. We all know intuitively that our mental and emotional wellbeing is important. But we don’t necessarily know what to do about it. Further, most consider work a part of

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by Kevin Eikenberry We need our teams to collaborate to get great results. Often, we think of collaboration as a face-to-face activity.  Have you figured out how to do that at a distance from some or all of the team?  Do you know what you need to do to create hybrid collaboration? Here are three

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Remote work was on the rise long before the COVID pandemic hit. The trend was already towards greater flexibility and mobility in how we do our jobs.  So, it’s no big surprise that there are some obvious short-term changes in the workplace: more hybrid work teams, ubiquitous webcams (along with the accompanying “Zoom fatigue”) and

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In facilitating learning experiences (virtually) over the last 18 months with leaders who want to be more effective in leading remote or hybrid teams, one of the most common concerns I hear is, “We can’t collaborate without a whiteboard.” This is a limiting view (I’ll explain in a second), but if you want hybrid collaboration

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by Guy Harris The transition from individual contributor to leader calls for changes in at least three areas of your work life: your relationships, your skills, and your mindset. Managing these three transitions simultaneously is almost always a challenge, and the challenge is made even more difficult when you work with a “hybrid” work in

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“We need collaboration.” Just one of the reasons some organizations give when announcing their decision to bring everyone back to the office. In fact, it is the second most common concern about a hybrid workplace. The first concern is usually “We need to be together for our culture.” (I’ve dispelled that myth in this post.)

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One of the most common complaints about working on a virtual or hybrid team is, “People can’t brainstorm and collaborate the way they do in the office.” For many teams, this is a critical issue because the whole point of being in teams is to create a sum that’s greater than all of the talented

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