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What 3 CEOs Learned After Spending a Day in Their Employees’ Shoes

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Since that experience, he’s using his new knowledge of how things really work on the literal street level to create a company-wide “transformation,” including a better tipping policy and improved communication processes. Here’s what other CEOs and leaders say there is to be learned from walking a day in employees’ shoes. His goal? “To

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Unmasking the Corporate Return-to-Work Fallacy: A Genuine Approach to Junior Staff Development

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If they are at home and not going through that process, we don’t think they’re as successful.” In response to this belief, Salesforce overhauled its previously flexible policy. A similar shift in policy is being observed in leading tech, finance, and other sectors. Instead, it calls for task-specific office attendance.

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Successful Remote Work Requires Investment Into Culture

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As more organizations adopt hybrid and remote policies for the long-term, it’s clear that success requires more than just the latest collaboration tools. Peer mentoring is another valuable practice. They end up creating remote policies that force old workflows rather than embracing new approaches.

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The Real Reasons for Hybrid Workers to Come to the Office

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While digital synchronous or asynchronous learning suffices for most content, face-to-face interactions are ideal for in-depth training. Peer learning aids in establishing a learning community, fostering trust, mutual understanding, and information retention. For most staff, these tasks shouldn’t exceed a day per week.

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How to Start a Mentorship Program

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When you start talking about mentorship programs, you’ll usually get one of the following reactions: a collective groan about the additional work that such a program might entail, intimidation about where to begin or excitement from people who have experienced successful mentor relationships and the growth that comes from them.

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Mastering The Art Of Distributed Leadership: Lessons From Atlassian’s “Team Anywhere” Program

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But tools providing recorded trainings and transparent company meetings help to facilitate learning. I noted that research indicates potential challenges with mentoring and on-the-job training in fully remote settings, as it’s harder for younger workers to build trusting developmental relationships purely online.

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Let Teams Decide Their Approach to Hybrid Work

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The only useful function of the office is to facilitate collaboration, socialization, and mentoring. . You’ll get a lot more buy-in, even from staff who may be unhappy with your final policies, if they feel consulted and heard. . That applies especially to policies concerning working conditions.