5 New Rules for Leading a Hybrid Team

Hybrid work is here to stay. What does it mean for organizational leaders navigating the shift? How do they accommodate people’s needs meanwhile maintaining a culture of excellence? Turns out, the fundamentals of what transforms a group of people into an outstanding team haven’t changed much over time. Learn what the former senior vice president of people operations at Google Laszlo Block writes in this article about organizational culture for The Harvard Business Review. The author of the 2015 book Work Rules! uses his guidelines for how to combine data analysis, academic rigor, and human resources best practices to create a world-class company culture to outline 5 ways leaders can build great teams—even when those teams aren’t together in-person all the time.

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Hybrid Meetings - Microsoft Teams Rooms

Microsoft Teams is innovating for the workplace. You can now bring Microsoft Teams to any meeting space to help everyone feel closer and more engaged so they can collaborate fully. In this infographic, learn about how you can create a natural and immersive experience with Front Row—a new layout in Microsoft Teams Rooms that enables in-room participants to see remote colleagues face to face across a horizontal plane as if they were in the same room. Learn about how to use live reactions and how you can identify and differentiate the voices of up to 10 people talking in a Microsoft Teams Room. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you understand how Teams Rooms can work in various spaces.

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Hybrid Meetings - Microsoft Teams Rooms

Microsoft Teams is innovating for the workplace. You can now bring Microsoft Teams to any meeting space to help everyone feel closer and more engaged so they can collaborate fully. In this infographic, learn about how you can create a natural and immersive experience with Front Row—a new layout in Microsoft Teams Rooms that enables in-room participants to see remote colleagues face to face across a horizontal plane as if they were in the same room. Learn about how to use live reactions and how you can identify and differentiate the voices of up to 10 people talking in a Microsoft Teams Room. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you understand how Teams Rooms can work in various spaces.

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The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is the tool that companies relied on when the pandemic forced them to quickly switch to hybrid work, allowing them to innovate despite the challenges. This research provides a framework for assessing the potential impact of Microsoft Teams on businesses. Learn how customers saw increased adoption to the tool, enabling them to shift more of the enterprise to Teams for collaboration and communication. The result was increased productivity for a larger number of employees, improved productivity benefits from new automation functionality, and cost savings associated with the transition to a single communication and collaboration tool. Sign up and download the e-book to learn about the economic impact of Microsoft Teams.

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HUS: sharing data securely to make life-saving

HUS is Finland’s largest healthcare provider and one of Europe’s leading healthcare organizations, bringing together 23 different hospitals and treating more than 680,000 patients a year. With Microsoft cloud services and Microsoft 365 tools already in place across HUS, a Microsoft Teams trial was introduced in 2020 to help improve communication and allow medical staff to easily share sensitive information—like imaging scans— between clinicians. Resident HUS Neurosurgeon Anselmi Kovalainen explains how since the onset of COVID-19, daily radiology meetings are now in a hybrid format, where the physical meeting still takes place, but people can join remotely through Teams. Watch this customer success video and learn about how, with Teams, staff have a secure platform to collaborate both inside the hospital and remotely for any self-isolating colleagues.

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Hybrid Meetings - Live Events & Webinars

Microsoft Teams is innovating hybrid work. New tools exist to support pre- and post-event workflow, and you can now scale up to 1,000 attendees for interactive webinars, townhalls, and trainings and up to 10,000 for view-only broadcasts. This infographic provides you with the latest announcements comings to Teams: Language Interpretation and the power of cameo and recording studio in PowerPoint, for starters. And a link to the Microsoft 365 roadmap will be your guide for what to expect in 2022. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you deliver engaging events with large scale audiences with Microsoft Teams.

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Drive new ways to work and be together

Hybrid work has changed the way we work, and Microsoft Teams is the tool that can help you make the most of it. Microsoft Teams provides an intuitive way to connect and work collaboratively, allowing people to interact regardless of where or when they work. Discover new and easier ways to create more immersive and engaging meetings by increasing your flexibility. Bring apps into meetings for real-time, multi-participant collaboration while maintaining Teams' security, familiarity, and capability. Sign up to stay connected. We’ll help you learn more about using Microsoft Teams.

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A Hotel-Style Hybrid Work Environment May Be the Answer to the Post-Pandemic Office Question

As the "new normal" settles in, more businesses are embracing the concept of office hoteling, a hybrid model that stretches the free-form layout of hot-desking to the entire office, removing assigned seating. This Entrepreneur article highlights what thought leaders are acting on when it comes to changing workplace models. For business owners looking for cost-effective ways to provide the flexibility employees want without affecting productivity, hoteling is actually a pretty good idea. Case in point: Experts estimate a single desk in a high-quality office space—in real estate, furniture, technology and more—can cost up to $18,000 a year. Learn how one company saved an estimated $10 million annually thanks to its adoption of an unassigned office-seating arrangement.

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Giant Eagle reimagines communications, supports hybrid work model with Microsoft Teams

Socially conscious grocery retailer Giant Eagle adopted Microsoft Teams and used Teams live events to host a large-scale event addressing the social unrest spreading throughout the country in 2020 and beyond. With Microsoft Teams already in place, they were easily able to use their existing infrastructure to invite all 17,000 employees to watch presenters at two store locations. Arlo Sivak, Manager of the Modern Workplace team at Giant Eagle, said it was “about as smooth as a first-time event of that magnitude could have gone.” Learn about how the corporate staff quickly proved they could use Teams as a remote work platform at the onset of the pandemic, and how and why the company really hasn’t looked back.

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Hybrid Meetings - Teams Meetings

Did you know that 52% of people are likely to consider shifting to hybrid or remote work in the year ahead? Microsoft Teams Meetings has a better way to run meetings where participants are empowered to engage no matter where they’re dialing in from. This infographic illustrates how participants stay in the flow before, during, and after the meeting, and includes updates about upcoming features like Loop components and meeting recaps. Sign up and stay connected. We’ll help you transform your organization so everyone can engage in immersive hybrid meetings.

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