Team Development
Leading and Working in Hybrid Teams
Leading and Working in Hybrid Teams
In this workshop, we achieve the following objectives:
- Equip leaders with the necessary skills and tools to lead hybrid teams effectively
- Support team members with guidance on working effectively in hybrid teams
- Build leaders and team members capabilities to foster relationships and build trust in hybrid teams
- Build experience with practical tools and techniques to drive performance in hybrid teams
- Enhance proficiency in using technology for virtual collaboration
- Create awareness for ways to ensure work-life balance in hybrid work models
- Prepare leaders to motivate people, and sustain engagement and productivity in a hybrid work environment
- Develop adaptability and resilience to thrive in the evolving landscape of hybrid work environments
Content
(The following sample content will be customized to your organization´s needs)
Effective Leadership in Hybrid Teams:
- Skills for leading remote and in-person team members
- Tools to navigate challenges unique to hybrid team environments
Motivating and Sustaining Engagement:
- Motivational strategies for remote and in-person teams
- Methods to sustain engagement and productivity in a hybrid work environment
Support Hybrid Team Members:
- Guidance on effective communication and collaboration in hybrid settings
- Strategies for managing workload and expectations in a hybrid work structure
Building Relationship and Trust in Hybrid Teams:
- Foster capabilities to build strong relationships with team members
- Trust-building techniques tailored for virtual and in-person interactions
Practical Tools and Techniques for Performance in Hybrid Teams:
- Practical tools for goal-setting, tracking, and performance evaluation (e.g. OKRs)
- Techniques to enhance team cohesion and collaboration.
Proficiency in Virtual Collaboration:
- Advanced features of virtual collaboration tools and best practices for effective virtual meetings and project management
Ensuring Work-Life Balance in Hybrid Work Models:
- Strategies and behaviors to maintain work-life balance, setting boundaries and managing time effectively
-  Skills for adapting to changes in work structures and fostering team members’ resilience to thrive in evolving hybrid work landscapes
Target Group
The Leading and Working in Hybrid Teams workshop is designed for professionals across various roles and departments within the organization, including:
- Leaders: To understand hybrid teams’ challenges and needs, foster engagement, collaboration, psychological safety and performance
- Hybrid Team members: To improve collaboration and communication approaches, adapt team behaviors, build trust and inclusion and develop the high performing team traits in the hybrid world
- People & Culture: To support the transition into flexible work models and implement hybrid work policies. This includes balancing remote and on-site roles, ensuring equitable rewards, and promoting career development opportunities for everyone, irrespective of on-site presence or traditional visibility expectations.
Methodology
Before the workshop:
- Pre-Workshop Survey: Prior to the workshop, the participants complete a survey to highlight goals, strengths, and challenges to tailor the content of the workshop
During the workshop:
1- 2 Day Virtual or Face-to-Face Workshop / Customized to clients’ needs
- High Performing (Hybrid) Team Assessment: During the workshop, the participants complete the HPTA
- Identify Participants’ Status: Assess the status of hybrid team competence
- Facilitator-led Sessions: Team activities and reflections on strengths, challenges and development areas based on best practice and participants’ context
- Group activities: Practical teambuilding activities and action plans for practical application of guidance and team’s ideas and aspirations
After the workshop:
- Application of learning to the workplace and cultivation of individual, team and organization competence in leading and working in the hybrid work environment
- Certification: Upon completion of the workshop, the participants receive a certificate of workshop completion and a badge demonstrating successful completion of the Leading and Working in Hybrid Teams Workshop
Summary: Leading and Working in Hybrid Teams
The Leading and Working in Hybrid Teams workshop supports the participants to navigate the hybrid work model and new ways of working, and to foster adaptation, resilience and effectiveness in evolving environments. It focuses on nurturing trust and psychological safety within teams, emphasizing autonomy, alignment, accountability, and effective collaboration in hybrid settings. Through working on their real-work examples, participants can directly apply the principles learned and achieve real impact on their performance in their hybrid teams.
Prior to the workshop, participants complete a Pre-Workshop Survey to ascertain their objectives, strengths and performance risks in Leading and Working in Hybrid Teams. During the workshop, the participants complete a self-rating along the criteria of the High Performing Hybrid Team Assessment to guide their understanding of effective team collaboration and, based on their results, the content and approach are tailored to the needs of the group. During the 1–2-day workshop, experiential and social learning activities, peer exercises, case-studies etc. uncover hybrid work challenges and the participants collaboratively work on identifying solutions to their individual and group challenges.
The High Performing Hybrid Team Framework provides a blueprint for effective Hybrid Teamwork; fostering Trust and Relationships, Collaboration, Communication and Performance Management. The blueprint can be directly applied by the participants to their hybrid teams.
Upon completion, participants receive certification and a badge, validating their successful completion of the workshop.
