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Navigate the Hybrid Workplace
Leading Teams in a Hybrid Environment
Identify the mindset shifts needed to operate as a hybrid leader
Apply strategies to cultivate psychological safety within their teams
Name the strategic, operational, and affinity ‘distances’ that must be minimized in a hybrid workplace based on Ferrazzi’s model
Evaluate workplace expectations and boundaries for and with employees
Integrate synchronous and asynchronous technological tools
Managing Performance in a Hybrid Workplace
Identify the eight attributes of a high performing team
Construct organizational, team, and personal goals that align to unit and University purposes
Apply the principles of creating aligned goals for teams and employees
Utilize strategies to ensure progress toward goals accomplishment
Being a High Performing Employee in a Hybrid World
Identify the different degrees of ownership between employee and supervisors as it relates to accountability, goal accomplishment and personal engagement.
Name indicators of burnout and implement strategies for long-term sustainability
Implement technological tools to maximize work productivity
Improve Your Communication
Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue
Identify problems contributing to poor results and broken relationships.
Keep composure when feeling angry, defensive, or intimidated. Spot the warning signs that indicate safety and dialogue are at risk.
Identify victim, villain, and helpless stories you might be telling yourself to justify behavior.
Recognize when you are at cross-purpose and take steps to rebuild safety and return to dialogue.
Find and cultivate mutual purpose with those who hold opposing viewpoints.
Turn each Crucial Conversation into a course of action that leads to results.
Crucial Conversations for Accountability
Hold anyone accountable: Speak up no matter the person's power, position, or temperament.
Manage performance: Get positive results and maintain good relationships.
Motivate others without force: Permanently resolve problems by clarifying natural consequences.
Manage projects without taking over: Help others avoid excuses, keep projects on track, and resolve performance barriers.
Improve performance: Agree on a plan, follow up, engage in good reporting practices, and manage new expectations.
Strengthen Your Supervisory Skills
Developing and Sustaining Employee Engagement
Define employee engagement.
Describe factors that contribute to engagement being at risk.
Describe the three root causes of the job misery model and identify one strategy to increase employee engagement.
Schedule 1-3 hybrid community building activities into team meetings to engage employees.
Create a plan to support your well-being so that you can support your employees.
Employee Management and Compliance Essentials
Pre-employment essentials (position management, compensation, and recruitment).
Employee development guidelines and strategies (onboarding, performance management, and progressive discipline).
Special topics in employee management (federal and campus policies and procedures related to discrimination and harassment; the Americans with Disabilities Act; and the Family Medical Leave).
CliftonStrengths Introduction
Recognize their top five talents and discover their meaning
Explain their top five talents to others
Identify strategies to develop talents into strengths
Compare ‘balconies’ & ‘basements’ associated with each strength
Use four domains to strengthen working relationships
Develop Inclusive Habits
Making Virtual and Hybrid Meetings Inclusive: Exploring Equity Gaps
Identify ways that people are feeling excluded in virtual meetings
Identify equity gaps in virtual meetings
Name common barriers to inclusion in virtual meetings
Apply strategies to mitigate barriers in virtual meetings
Allyship: Advancing Diversity and Inclusion
Define allyship
Explain the importance of allyship
Identify and apply effective ally behaviors
Reflect on the impacts of their allyship
