Overview

Your role as a leader, not just a manager, is vital to your team’s success amidst the changing dynamics of hybrid and remote work. More teams than ever are operating in this complex environment. As many government agencies continue to redefine hybrid work and returning to the office, leadership approaches also must evolve for both today and the future.

During this course, you’ll explore how to apply methods and principles of team leadership with greater creativity and intentionality to best support and lead teams in dispersed work environments. For example, creating psychological safety, cohesion, trust, and belonging when everyone is together in one room is challenging enough; how can you foster those same ideals in a remote or hybrid environment?

To help address these complexities, this course includes “The 6 Types of Working Genius” assessment from the Table Group, Inc. Copyright 2022. The feedback from this assessment will help you analyze how you lead your team and successfully implement projects. The assessment gives you a profile of your “type” and ways to look at how to “maximize the time you spend working in your areas of genius” and “minimize the time spent in areas of frustration” (the Table Group, 2022). You will self-assess your current team and/or a project you are leading to identify the team’s areas of genius, its potential gaps, and the impact/problems remote and hybrid teams can face due to these similarities and differences.

How You Will Benefit

Using recent research on the changing workplace, including processes for both looking back and looking forward, this course will help you understand the complexities and challenges of leading teams in a hybrid or remote environment. After taking this course, you’ll be able to:

• Identify behaviors that will help you and your team function more effectively and connect more deeply.
  
• Employ tried-and-true teambuilding concepts to increase creativity and innovation and create the desired culture for your team.
  
• Understand and learn how employing empathy builds trust and psychological safety that supports your team’s well-being.
  
• Create a plan for inclusive communication to build your team culture.
  
• Motivate your team to do their best work by exploring the idea of accountability as more than time spent at a desk.
  
• Develop a forward-looking mindset that strengthens your team’s resilience, allowing them to thrive in change.
  

Who Should Attend

• Managers, supervisors, team leaders, and others with leadership responsibilities for remote or hybrid teams.
  
• Project managers of teams that work remotely or in a hybrid environment.
  
• Recommended for individuals in the grades of GS-12 and above.