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Action Step – ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES NECESSARY IN A HYBRID ENVIRONMENT

The Alliance’s Action Steps are designed to assist organizations with implementing practical strategies and policies related to diversity and flexibility. Members can access full versions of all of the Alliance’s Action Steps in the Member Resource Center.

As more organizations are adopting hybrid work, they need to enhance infrastructure support to ensure success. In addition to training, mentoring, on-boarding, technology and affinity groups, organizations need to make sure to include additional management/administrative support to properly foster professional experiences in a hybrid work setting. Organizations can hire additional professionals to accomplish these responsibilities and/or designate existing employees with these responsibilities if they have the time, interest and skillset. Here are the Alliance’s recommendations on the types of roles/responsibilities needed in a hybrid environment:

Members: continue reading this Action Step in the Member Resource Center

To read this entire Action Step become a member of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. To learn more contact Manar Morales.

You Have More Influence Than You Think: How We Underestimate Our Power of Persuasion, and Why It Matters

2022 Signature Seminar

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Featuring Vanessa Bohns, Associate Professor of Organizational Development, Cornell University

April 26, 2022 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST

If you’ve ever felt ineffective, invisible, or inarticulate, chances are you weren’t actually any of those things. Those feelings may instead have been the result of a lack of awareness we all seem to have for how our words, actions, and even our mere presence affect other people. Join us for a fascinating fireside chat with Dr. Vanessa Bohns about why we should stop searching to gain influence we don’t have and start recognizing and acting on the influence we don’t realize we already have.

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Action Step – TIPS FOR MANAGING & LEADING IN A HYBRID ENVIRONMENT

The Alliance’s Action Steps are designed to assist organizations with implementing practical strategies and policies related to diversity and flexibility. Members can access full versions of all of the Alliance’s Action Steps in the Member Resource Center.

Many organizations are reimagining their workplace and embracing hybrid work, in which employees will spend some time working in the office and some time working from home. However, in order to implement a successful hybrid work environment, organizations must set up the right infrastructure, employees need to adopt new work behaviors and skills, and managers need to lead differently. We focused a number of action steps on organizational infrastructure needed, including: Creating a Successful Onboarding and Integration Program, Building Your Training Program to Support Your Post-Pandemic Hybrid Work Environment, Maintaining Mentoring & Connection in a Hybrid Environment, and Overcoming the Myth of the Loss of 5Cs By Building the Right Flex Infrastructure. We produced an action step last month on ways individuals can set themselves up for success in a hybrid environment: Tips for Individual Success in a Hybrid Environment. Now we want to focus on ways managers can lead most effectively in a hybrid environment. Here are the Alliance’s recommendations:

Members: continue reading this Action Step in the Member Resource Center

To read this entire Action Step become a member of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. To learn more contact Manar Morales.