This week’s combination of resources and articles offers insights and practical resources to help you equip yourself with the skill required in these disruptive times, as well as for the Future of Work.
- 3 Key mistakes companies are making with their hybrid working policies. Read more here…
- Redesigning work: How the employee-employer relationship is changing. London Business School professor Lynda Gratton believes she has the blueprint. Read more here…
- Just us for all – Graeme Codrington shares an article on his (rejected) contribution to The World in Half a Century Forum 2020 (Sakharov Lectures 2020). Read more and watch his 30-minute video here.
- The great attrition is making hiring harder. Are you searching the right talent pools? Great article by McKinsey. Read more here…
- Manage an engaged, happy, and productive team in just 6 short weeks. More info here.
We’d love to have a conversation with you if any of the above topics resonate with you. Our team continues to help our clients around the world to prepare for tomorrow, today.
My biggest concern is companies think they are doing hybrid meeting, when in fact they are returning to a Pre-COVID Teleconference. Then when the meeting fails (because of Pre-COVID known issues such as presenteeism) they conclude incorrectly Hybrid does not work – “Let’s get everyone Back in the office“ being the response.
Quick test to see if you are embracing hybrid (and the tech) well. If you and your team were all in the office, would you be all switch on MS Teams or not?
When I ask the question, I usually get a re-sounding “No” often with a puzzled look as what seems an insane question.
But actually, it’s not called MS “Virtual” Teams…
There are at least 3 reasons why you should have MS Teams on even if everyone is physically in the room:
1. Governance meeting can be recorded and transcribed (albeit with some typos) for faster minute taking – this keeps absent Team members or Team member who had to step out to take an urgent call, up-to-date.
2. Team Cascade to avoid Halo & Bandwagon effects. This also has hidden benefit of making it a psychological safe space to “speak-up” and allow minority and/or junior views to sway majority / senior views with a keen insight from the coalface.
3. The “little Yellow hand” creates structure, respect and allows the “facilitator of the meeting” to answer questions in order of the thought timeline. If done well this creates 2nd and 3rd order discussions and ideas.
Now if you are not doing the above in a physical meeting – you are making it even worse in a hybrid meeting with people “dialling” having to deal with a 1 to 2 second delay and the age old presenteeism challenge – which was solved during COVID times.
Do not be that leader and take your team back to Pre-Covid ways of work – that world is dead, master Hybrid ways of working for you and your team … it is non-negotiable.
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