Making hybrid work
You can’t replicate the old ways of working for a mixture of office and home working. There is an incredible opportunity to create new ways of working and a real risk of doing the wrong thing.
Take the time to think about how to make hybrid work
Making hybrid work
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Your collaboration score
Getting the balance between virtual and in person working shouldn’t be left to the individual. Both people and tasks are more or less successful online. A quick audit of your people and the jobs they do will help inform the requirements for online working.
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Collaboration schedule
Taking the time to plan the schedule for getting everyone together will make sure you put the best resources in place at the right time. Decide if Wednesday is your day in the office and decide what needs to happen on that day.
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Collaboration Operating Model
New ways of working need the same rigour as any transformation or they will fail. Develop the operating model of people. processes and tools that you are going to follow to make hybrid work
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Your culture audit
‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’. Prolonged time and distance apart drives culture creep. Assess what your working culture is, find the gaps and the opportunities and identify what your people think is important
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People centred strategy
Develop the strategy for what you want your working culture to be. Develop the symbols, the principles and the approach for embedding new ways of working. Define the environments and tools you want to create.
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Culture and leadership transformation
Design and implement the initiatives to deliver culture and leadership transformation. Build capability to run new ways of working, define the roles and organisational changes and create new environments.