Leading Hybrid Teams: Best Practices From Fortune 500 Firms
Master hybrid team leadership best practices of Fortune 500 leaders taught by world-renowned expert on hybrid teams.

Leading hybrid teams is the key new skill that leaders must master for leadership success in the new normal for your bottom line and career: the future is hybrid.
Unfortunately, our intuitive leadership style is adapted to in-office collaboration, and is poorly suited to hybrid teams. Our gut reactions on hybrid teams can’t be trusted, as revealed by research in behavioral economics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. So how do the leaders of Fortune 500 companies make the right calls on leading hybrid teams to achieve their business objectives?
They follow evidence-based best practices on leading hybrid teams and returning to the office as revealed by such research. In this course, you will master techniques for leading hybrid teams drawing on cutting-edge behavioral science and real-world best practices from Fortune 500 companies. After taking this course, you will:
• Master the best practices in leading hybrid teams used by Fortune 500 leaders to seize competitive advantage for their bottom lines and careers
• Discover how to collaborate and innovate most effectively in hybrid teams, while holding team members accountable for deliverables
• Develop a plan with specific next steps to adapt for yourself the best practices used by Fortune 500 companies for leading hybrid teams
• Arrange the most effective post-vaccine return to office through a hybrid-first model that maximizes your business objectives
• Learn the dangerous judgment errors called cognitive biases that undermine successful hybrid team leadership and how Fortune 500 firms defeat them
• Gain the skills to maximize productivity, engagement, retention, and morale for hybrid teams for your team's bottom line and your own career
• Feel truly confident about whether you make the right calls in leading hybrid teams to achieve your desired leadership goals
That's what you can expect in this course: methods used successfully at even the biggest companies to seize a competitive advantage, thoroughly informed by cutting-edge research and featured in top media venues and best-selling books around the globe. The course features the following sections with videos and reading assignments.
Who is this course for?
Current and aspiring leaders (executives, managers, supervisors, intrapreneurs, and entrepreneurs) who want to dramatically improve their skills in leading hybrid teams using Fortune 500 firm methods will get the most benefit from this course, as case studies and examples are best suited to their needs
- Prerequisites
- You need to trust best practices from Fortune 500 companies and behavioral science-based findings over going with outdated team leadership advice stemming from office-based environments to seize a competitive advantage in leading hybrid teams to achieve your business objectives
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14 Video

Introduction Video - Future of Work Fortune 500 Best Practices
2m 24s
Course Video - What Do Employees Want in Future of Work
11m 6s
Course Video - Why Do So Many Leaders Screw Up the Future of Work
15m 31s
Course Video - Creating Competitive Advantage in the Future of Work
9m 21s
Course Video - Best Future of Work Plan - A Team-Led Approach
11m 55s
Course Video - Redefining Office Space and Home Offices to Boost Employee Productivity in the Future of Work
11m 21s
Course Video - Effective Collaboration for the Future of Work
13m 51s
Course Video - Intentional Asynchronous Brainstorming for Innovation Advantage
18m 10s
Course Video - Serendipitous Innovation Advantage in the Future of Work
13m 37s
Course Video - On-the-Job Learning and Mentoring in the Future of Work
12m 21s
Course Video - Performance Evaluation in the Future of Work
12m 31s
Course Video - Upskilling Employees for the Hybrid and Remote Future of Work
10m 37s
Course Video - Extra Credit - How to Deal With Colleagues in Denial
16m 33s
Course Completion Video - Lifelong Learning for Content Mastery
2m 1s"Master science-based best practices of Fortune 500 firms" You are getting the benefit of my two decades of experience as a trainer and consultant for Fortune 500 executives, managers, and supervisors when you take my courses. As the CEO of the training and consulting firm Disaster Avoidance Experts, I trained these leaders on my areas of expertise – cutting-edge behavioral science-based techniques in decision making, future proofing, and cognitive bias risk management in the future of work. and related fields. My clients include Fortune 500 firms such as Aflac, Applied Materials, Entergy, Honda, IBM, Jones Lang LaSalle, Reckitt, Wells Fargo, and Xerox; large nonprofits such as the World Wildlife Fund and The Columbus Foundation; government agencies such as the US Defense Health Agency and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; as well as numerous middle-market companies and quickly-growing startups. You can be confident that you are getting the training courses that these organizations paid me a lot of money to develop. Besides these two decades of real-world experience, my expertise also comes from a deep research background as a behavioral scientist. I spent over 15 years in academia, first getting a PhD and teaching at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and then teaching for 7 years as a professor at Ohio State University, where I published numerous peer-reviewed academic publications. While there, I taught thousands of students online and in-person using the latest principles in the educational psychology of adult learning. My teaching combines Fortune 500 best practices with groundbreaking research findings and educational psychology methodologies. My expertise has been widely recognized in over 550 articles I published and 450 interviews I gave to prominent venues. They include Fortune, USA Today, Fast Company, CBS News, CNBC, Time, Business Insider, Government Executive, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and Inc. Magazine. Publishers and readers also recognize the quality of my content. I published 7 best-selling books, including global bestsellers Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Career Press, 2019) and The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships (New Harbinger Press, 2020). My newest best-seller is Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage (Intentional Insights, 2021). My expertise is globally renowned. My writing was translated into and published in Chinese, Korean, Russian, Polish, French, German, and other languages. On a personal note, I live in Columbus, Ohio. In my free time, I enjoy tennis, gardening, and reading. I also make sure to spend abundant quality time with my wife to avoid my personal life turning into a disaster. I hope to see you in my classes and look forward to sharing the techniques used by executives, managers, and supervisors at Fortune 500 firms with you.