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Action Step – Hybrid Meetings: Experience, Expectation & Engagement
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 moving towards a hybrid work environment, they must be more intentional about ways to build connection and collaboration. Hybrid work has the potential to create the most optimal work environment, bringing together and leveraging the best of both in-person and virtual work. However, hybrid work will only be successful with intentionality, and organizations must be deliberate and focused on building control, connection, collaboration, culture and contribution – take a look at our Action Step, Overcoming the Myth of the Loss of the 5Cs, which provides specific tips on how to do so. We now want to focus on how to make meetings in a hybrid work environment as engaging, productive and equitable as possible, as meetings are a regular source of workplace control, connection, collaboration, culture, and contribution. Here are our recommendations:
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To read this entire Action Step become a member of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. To learn more contact Manar Morales.
Action Step – Workplace Flexibility & Well-Being: From Balance to Boundaries
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.
Organizations have become significantly more open to workplace flexibility since the pandemic, many adopting hybrid work environments, hiring a greater number of workers in flexible locations, and embracing other forms of flexibility such as reduced hours, compressed work weeks, job sharing, flexible start-ends times, sabbaticals, and asynchronous time. Many organizations found an unexpected rise in productivity during the pandemic, leading to this change. However, along with greater productivity came greater burn-out for many employees who were working longer hours with less personal time. There were no longer boundaries between work and personal life. As organizations begin to emerge from the pandemic and develop plans for the future of work, leaders need to promote well-being by helping workers regain boundaries. Here are our recommendations:
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To read this entire Action Step become a member of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. To learn more contact Manar Morales.
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.