Evolving Your Organizational Culture to Adapt to a Hybrid Work Environment
Our new model of hybrid work, where some employees work remotely from home while others are co-located in the office, is challenging us to evolve our organizational cultures to embrace greater collaboration, communication, flexibility and adaptability. HR leaders are championing this change and must steward in a new way of building and maintaining a strong corporate culture when there are fewer opportunities to host in-person events and new hires must learn how to integrate into new teams without traditional activities that inculcate corporate values.
To combat the Great Resignation or Great Migration, a strong workplace culture is critical to attracting the right talent and retaining top performers. This session will focus on the competencies required for a successful hybrid work environment. We will also explore how your organizational culture needs to evolve to embrace this new way of working in order to increase employee engagement, retention and performance. We focus on the characteristics of high performing teams and how to demonstrate those qualities while working in a hybrid environment, including ways to increase trust and collaboration. We provide a model for enhanced diversity and inclusion and you will learn how to focus on equitable outcomes to minimize an "us versus them" culture and instead build a collaborative hybrid work environment.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the elements of a successful hybrid work environment.
- Discuss best practices in building trust, demonstrating engagement and communicating when working in a hybrid environment.
- Describe how organization cultures need to evolve to adapt to a hybrid environment.
- List the elements of an inclusive hybrid workplace culture.
- Apply tips to increase attraction, retention and engagement within a hybrid work environment.
- Create an individual action plan.
In-person session offerings are on a first-come, first-served basis.
Giselle Kovary
Giselle is the Practice Lead in Optimus SBR’s Learning & Development Group with over 25 years experience as a sought after resource to industry leaders across the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors dedicated to building strategies and programs that help clients target, motivate and engage employees in order to increase performance and productivity.
Giselle has devoted more than 20 years to researching the impact that generational differences have on organizational performance, creating solutions and programs in four areas – leadership, high performance teams, early career talent, and reinforcement & sustainment of learning. Giselle has co-authored two books and completed her Master of Arts Degree in Communications Studies at the University of Windsor.
She is Chair of the Board at The Institute for Performance and Learning (I4PL), co-chair of the Cross Academy Association and Advisory Council member at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University.