Effective Team Weekly Meetings: Putting Together a Weekly Meeting Agenda

Sometimes, working in a team can be quite challenging. While your entire team may be working toward a common objective, everyone is doing so not only from different perspectives, but from different locations as well. All this makes team meetings (and a weekly meeting agenda) a crucial and necessary part of the work week. Weekly …

Benefits of the Hybrid Work Model

Over the past few years, organizations across the globe have had to reevaluate the environment of their workplace and put new job practices—like exploring the benefits of a hybrid work model—to the test. Today, the hybrid model has replaced the traditional full-time office approach, resulting in a significant shift in how organizations manage their operations, …

How to Create a Hybrid Work Schedule

2020 forced businesses of all sizes to rapidly readjust. Transitioning to fully remote, often with little strategy in place, many employers braced for the worst. Luckily, after two years of remote and hybrid work, the results have been promising—employees are more productive and even happier working from home.  While employees have begun to indicate that …

Team Communication Best Practices for Hybrid Work

Communication breakdown is all too common when it comes to hybrid work. It’s nothing to feel bad about—we’ve adjusted to a new way of work, but we haven’t quite adjusted to the new way of team communication that comes with it—at least not yet. The good news is that there are plenty of ideas floating …

How to Set Up the Perfect Hybrid Meeting Room

Companies have had decades of experience building the perfect meeting room. Offices have focused on eliminating distractions, boosting engagement, finding the best ergonomic chairs and sturdy conference room tables to make meetings productive. But here’s the thing: The traditional office doesn’t work for us anymore. Your team has likely shifted how it operates to make …

Collaboration Skills: The Importance of Ideation and Feedback

Working as a team looks pretty different today than it did a few years ago. More than a quarter of the workforce now prefers fully remote positions, and even more see hybrid work models as the ideal solution to improving their own work-life balance. The way we work is evolving. A new way of work …

Hybrid Work Model: Is There an Emotional Impact?

The hybrid work model has been having a moment for quite some time. It’s often referred to as “the future of work,” and both employers and employees are looking favorably toward the new normal, where workers have greater flexibility to split their work time between home and the office. In fact, one Gallup survey found …

10 Important Office Design Updates for the Near and Distant Future

What will the office of the future look like? With remote and hybrid work models becoming more of a permanent fixture for many industries, updates to office design will certainly need to be made to adapt to modern needs and expectations. Expectations of flexibility and comfort in the workplace have already evolved rapidly following an …