Overcoming Barriers to Hybrid Collaboration - Employee Experience Edition

Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Time: 10:00 PST | 11:00 MST | 13:00 EST
Duration: 2-hours
Location: Virtual on Zoom
Investment: Free
Content: We’re hosting a tailored version of our popular 2-hour workshop for Employee Experience Summit delegates and targeted HR leaders. In this session, we will share the key themes we heard at the conference and unpack how they’re shaping today’s hybrid collaboration challenges.

 

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Join us for our Employee Experience Summit *bonus* workshop. Space is limited. Save your spot in the September 25 workshop.

You will learn


In June, ET Group CEO Dirk Propfe spoke in the opening keynote at the Employee Experience Summit. His presentation, Unleashing Your Competitive Advantage through Distributed Work, explored key practices that can drive impactful changes within an organization to make the most out of our hybrid work reality.

Over our two days participating at the conference and hosting conversations, many themes emerged: attraction and retention, DEI, RTO mandates, Gen Z, company culture, office space, employee experience, and more.

For leaders hoping to evolve the employee experience, the interplay of these themes with hybrid collaboration and distributed work arrangements cannot be ignored.

While everyone has been talking about place, space and technology, innovative organizations have woken up to recognize that hybrid is more than those things. In-office utilization is still at a record low. Why aren’t people returning? What are the blind spots? We must go deeper to explore how our social interactions and organizational paradigms shape hybrid work and ultimately, the employee experience.

We’re excited to host this bonus event to unpack the Employee Experience Summit themes through the lens of leveraging distributed work and enhancing the employee experience.

  • Key themes from the Employee Experience Summit

    Understand the key themes from the June 2024 conference and how they’re shaping today’s hybrid collaboration challenges.

  • Distributed work approaches helping to evolve the employee experience

    Join facilitated breakout sessions with senior HR professionals and industry leaders to explore some of the innovative, deeper approaches that are starting to move the needle on employee experience in distributed work environments.

  • 4-pillar framework for evolving your hybrid collaboration

    Learn what is required to collaborate more effectively in a hybrid world—technology, space, social interactions, and organizational paradigms. We will illuminate facets of hybrid work that are often overlooked and challenge assumptions about the hybrid experience.

  • Resources to navigate this in your own organization

    Whether you’re looking to start the conversation or advance existing efforts, we’ll equip you with insights and tools to support hybrid collaboration and digital equality in your organization.

Workshop Assets

Interactive Workbook

Participants receive a printable workbook in advance that they follow along to fill in answers and notes. They then have a completed copy at the close of the event.

Recap Email

A thorough reflection of the workshop including quotes, screenshots, and highlights from the event is sent to all attendees within 48 hours.

Insights Resource

Insights from the event will be provided in a digital or video resource following the workshop. This resource is only provided to event attendees.

Speakers

Stephan Berchtold

Stephan Berchtold leads learning experiences that help leaders and their organizations develop new approaches, and how to bridge technology with new ways of working. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Development from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, as (co-)authored in a variety of journals and has held the position of an Academic Director of a Bachelors’ Program in Business Education. Stephan is also a senior lecturer at the Department of Business Education at the University of Graz. Among his additional credentials, Stephan is certified as both a Design Thinking Coach from d.school, a Trainer for Process Communication Model, and is certified in SEMCO’s expert program on self-managed organizations.

Michael Diettrich-Chastain

Michael Diettrich-Chastain is an expert on change management & peak performance in the workplace. He and his team are passionate about helping leaders and teams create company cultures of radical engagement and purpose.

He is the founder and CEO of Arc Integrated, a leadership development and organizational consulting firm based in Asheville, NC.

As an international speaker and executive coach, Michael is widely regarded by the various CEO’s and leaders he has worked with as the “go to resource” for helping to transform the company cultures in which he works. His writing has been featured in Time, Money, Entrepreneur and The Washington Post and his first book (CHANGES) released in 2019 became an instant best seller.  Michael’s mission is to transform organizations to be catalysts that elevate the consciousness of all involved.

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To holistically address the many aspects of today’s work challenges, ET Group has partnered with the organizational development experts at Arc Integrated. Together, we host workshops and deliver consulting experiences that help organizations assess and evolve their distributed work strategies and ways of working. 

Colby Harder

Colby Harder is a recognized thought leader in the Future of Work, advocating for well-executed hybrid and distributed work models as an opportunity for business to create a sustainable competitive advantage. He believes that these approaches align with core human needs in work: autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

Colby is an experienced entrepreneur, board member, and brings over 20 years of experience in the workplace technology industry. At ET Group, Colby leads efforts focused on attracting new clients and forming strategic industry partnerships. Additionally, Colby has also advised non-profit organizations and established a hybrid coworking business, where he can see innovative hybrid-teams work effectively in new ways of working.

At the core of his beliefs are the tenets that work is something we do, not somewhere we go. He also believes that distributed work will be the de-facto standards operating system for most knowledge workers in the future and that there is an opportunity for businesses to invest in the leadership, management processes, and technology to make their businesses stronger and more resilient.

Driven by his passion for exploration, Colby travels globally, both physically and virtually, to study hybrid and distributed work best practices, the “return to office” movement, and to learn from successful distributed teams so that he can help clients thrive in the future of work.

 

Workshop Testimonials

"Learned about the need to consider organizational beliefs and paradigms, and how they are impacting achievement of hybrid vision." - Donna, Senior Manager, Change Management

"I really appreciated discussing psychological safety, as I rarely see this. This gave a lot of validity to what we do, and empowered us on how we can approach our clients. I also really appreciated the emphasis on making space and allowing all people to have a chance to contribute." - Michael, Senior Interior Designer

"Workshop was really great - focus is truly important. New ways to work may not only mean hybrid work; this isn’t just about people working from home / not from home." - DJ, Interior Designer

"Excellent workshop and a ton of passion on the ET Group. Understanding that space and tech are only two components to addressing challenges faced with hybrid collaboration." - Anonymous

"Global perspective works well for fresh ideas in the workshop. Good validation of what we are hearing from clients and balance content regarding the role of technology without being sales oriented." - Lisa F, SVP Client Strategy

"This workshop is critical for organizations to survive & flourish." - Raidya, Co-Founder

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