Category: Leaders

Listen in – Making Hybrid Work (as a manager)

This is the final blog in a series relating to supporting managers in setting up their hybrid team for success. This month I’m sharing to ways to listen to, and view, some key tips for managers related to the model above.

How to nurture connection as a hybrid team manager

Photo Credit: SolStock Stock Image and Video Portfolio – iStock (istockphoto.com) Continuing a series of blogs that aim to support managers of hybrid teams in ensuring their teams are connected, engaged, cohesive and able to perform, this month we focus on connection. Rather than being nice to have, connection is an essential of the hybrid… Read more »

Your manager mindset for effective team hybrid working

Over the last few months, Geri McKenna and I have shared a number of blogs related to ensuring your team is working effectively in a hybrid way. This month, we are focusing on considering your mindset as a manager and will share some thoughts on what mindset will best serve you as a hybrid team… Read more »

Being productive when working in a hybrid way

[This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC] In our July blog, we shared three principles for hybrid working and four practical steps to set your team up for success.  We also invited you to consider how you might consider supporting your teams as they re-learn how to work in an office space,… Read more »

Four steps to decide your hybrid working approach

In our last 2 month’s blogs, Geri McKenna and I have made the case for intentionally designing the way that your hybrid team works (May 2022) as well as sharing what you told us about your experiences (June 2022). In this blog, building on our learning from coaching teams and the latest research, we are… Read more »

Leading your hybrid team – what you told us

Since last month’s blog, the first of a series on leading a hybrid team successfully, we’ve run a survey on LinkedIn to better understand real life experiences of hybrid working currently. In this month’s blog we’ll share the highlights along with some considerations to support you in leading your hybrid team.

Successfully leading your hybrid team

In the past 2 years we’ve experienced the biggest disruption to work since the introduction of the 5 day working week – our work-life boundaries have been forever blurred and for many we experienced a new found autonomy.  Our behavioural norms have been turned on their heads and we can’t just go back. As a… Read more »

Creating space for awareness

Do you believe in signs? …That sometimes we see something that is giving us a clue about a way forward or seems to have caught our eye for a reason? I have to say that logically I don’t. I’m an engineer by original degree and I worked as an engineer  as the first 7 years… Read more »

Feeling unsettled and insecure – you are not alone

Have you noticed your team members’ motivation waning or coming and going in recent weeks? Or perhaps your own? You are not alone. With world events being what they are, some basic human needs can feel threatened. Why is this and what can we do to gain some motivational balance?

Why showing happiness as a female leader is a good thing

Leadership can be both rewarding and demanding in equal measure. In good organisations, as a leader you get support through development to enable you to do it well. Often that development focuses on how to lead from an intellectual perspective for example perhaps with an enterprise mindset, or to be strategic in perspective – if… Read more »