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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.
Learning Tools
Reinforce what you learned from How the Future Works
Mind Map
How the Future Works
Core Premise
Balance
Optimization
Step 1: Core Principles
Avoid Mandates
Define Objective
Mindset Focus
Step 2: Guardrails & Expectations
Behavioral Rules
Equality
Executive Modeling
Step 3: Team-Level Agreements (TLAs)
Customization
Structure
Collaboration Hours
Step 4: Continuous Learning
Experimentation
Task Force
Leadership Commitment
Step 5: Digital Connection
Primary Hubs
Social Spaces
Resource Groups
Physical Office
Step 6: Manager Evolution
Empathetic Coaches
Core Roles
Support Systems
Step 7: Evaluating Success
Outcome Metrics
Deliverables
Digital Tracking
Ultimate Benefits
Company Growth
Human-Centric Work
Quiz — Test Your Understanding
Question 1 of 8
Why did Tim Cook's 2021 flexible work policy at Apple face swift backlash from employees?
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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