This online workshop gives employees the knowledge, skills, tools, and confidence to make a successful transition to a hybrid workplace. It provides a shared understanding of what stays the same, and what is different under these new workplace conditions. It also identifies the four common attributes of successful hybrid workplaces and how to put those attributes in place.
Course Overview
Course Outcomes
- Gain tools to be effective in a hybrid environment
- Learn the four best practices of successful hybrid workplaces
- Learn the importance of staying visible, responsive and connected in a hybrid environment
Business Need
Working remotely is now a proven concept. Pre-COVID the expectation was that most people worked in a traditional office and were remote by exception. During COVID, that was flipped. Post- COVID the norm will be a hybrid workplace. Estimates range from 30-60 percent of the workplace in the office, and the remainder working remotely.
Course Topics
Productivity
- Understand the benefits and challenges of working in a hybrid environment
- Identify the characteristics of effective teams and compare those characteristics in virtual and co-located teams
Performance Management
- Understand difference between activities and results
- Components of providing clear direction: goals, guidelines, resources, communication, consequences
Keeping Lines of Communication Open
- Discuss communication tools available in your agency
- Identify communications preferences
- Write a communications plan
- Identify protocols for virtual and hybrid meetings
Staying Visible and Connected
- Sharing best practices to stay visible to the team
- Sharing best practices to create and maintain an inclusive environment that equally values remote and in-person workers
- Identify strategies to stay connected and foster relationships
Course Schedule
Typical Course Duration
Virtual: 2 hours
Delivery Methods
Number of participants
- virtual: 30
Course Details
Course Level:
- Beginner
Learning Methods:
- Classroom Exercises
- Interactive Discussion
Equipment:
- CI's virtual platform