Report on Hybrid Collaboration Barriers and Insights

Download a report of all the barriers and insights surfaced in our most recent workshop, Overcoming Barriers to Hybrid Collaboration.

Download the Report

In this report, we’ve curated all the barriers that were surfaced in the workshop and applied insights using the 4 pillars model.

What you get

In the Overcoming Barriers to Hybrid Collaboration workshop, participants crowdsourced a multitude of barriers to hybrid collaboration that they’d experienced within their teams and organizations. Download report to read all the barriers surfaced and related insights.

  • Discover the barriers mapped to the 4 pillars model

    Unpacking the many crowdsourced barriers did not only show a wealth of insights, but also revealed a very interesting pattern. Find out to which aspects of the 4 pillars model contribute to the most barriers, and which pillars have surprisingly few.

  • Learn exercises to surface barriers at your organization

    Remember that within less than 15 minutes each of the workshop groups had collected a robust set of barriers. In the report, you’ll access a facilitated process to help you surface barriers with your team. Then, you can transform them into prototypes and experiments to start evolving your hybrid collaboration experiences.

  • Practical tips to help evolve your hybrid collaboration

    In the workshop, we provided some recommendations for next steps. To provide more guidance, the report includes a few practical tips to help you embark on the journey of overcoming some of your most hindering barriers.

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