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- What’s the secret to building a high-performing flexible work culture that actually attracts top talent instead of driving them away?
- Did you know that the 'old way' of working might be the single biggest risk to your company’s future growth?
- What if you could implement a step-by-step blueprint that turns flexible work from a management headache into your organization’s greatest strength?
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Key Takeaways from How the Future Works
- Learn why top-down, rigid remote work rules backfire, and discover how to establish overarching, mindset-driven principles tailored to your organization's specific goals.
- Understand how to set behavioral guardrails that protect remote employees' career progression and prevent offsite workers from feeling like second-class citizens.
- Discover the importance of executive role-modeling to enforce flexible policies, ensuring leaders adhere to the same remote-work expectations to clearly signal the new norm.
- Find out how to design Team-Level Agreements (TLAs) that establish core collaboration hours, providing both structure and flexibility tailored to specific departmental needs.
- Master the transition to flexible work by creating a diverse task force dedicated to experimenting with new practices and normalizing continuous learning across your organization.
How the Future Works — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Step 1: Define principles to steer your flexible work strategy effectively
Chapter 3: Step 2: Set guardrails that define expected behaviors
Chapter 4: Step 3: Ask every team to create a work practices plan
Chapter 5: Step 4: Normalize ongoing learning
Chapter 6: Step 5: Make meaningful digital connections possible
Chapter 7: Step 6: Develop your managers for your new workplace
Chapter 8: Step 7: Redefine how you measure success
How the Future Works Summary & Overview
How the Future Works (2022) provides a blueprint that company leaders can use to implement flexible work policies. It offers a step-by-step guide detailing how to manage this transition effectively so that organizations can benefit from this new way of working.
Who Should Listen to How the Future Works?
- Leaders wanting to make flexible work strategies the norm
- Executives who are skeptical about flexible working models
- Managers who want their teams to transition successfully to flexible work arrangements
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