Digital, flexible and accessible: launching Our Hybrid Future

Here are two things about me: I work from home. And I manage teams remotely (or I have done in the past). At the start of 2020, these things – while nowhere near unique – were still rare in the circles I worked in. Most of my friends, colleagues and clients went to work each day in offices, and most of them worked with or managed people within the same buildings they shared.

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Don’t ditch the digital

COVID-19 rushed the world into digital and hybrid working faster than anyone could have imagined.

Conversations and processes that may previously have taken years (or never even got started) were implemented basically overnight. Organisations without work-from-home policies suddenly found themselves working entirely from home – and communicating entirely with others doing the same thing. Artists without an online presence had to entirely rethink their creative practices and find ways to make a living within the digital space.

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RESOURCE: Flexible, Remote and Online Working (Part 6: Our hybrid future)

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RESOURCE: Flexible, Remote and Online Working (Part 5: Effective online meetings)

Please note: this resource has been superseded by Our Hybrid Future.

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RESOURCE: Flexible, Remote and Online Working guide (Part 4: Team wellbeing)

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RESOURCE: Flexible, Remote and Online Working guide (Part 3: Team workload)

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RESOURCE: Flexible, Remote and Online Working (Part 2: Team management and pastoral care protocols)

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RESOURCE: Flexible, Remote and Online Working (Part 1: Team management and pastoral care)

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RESOURCE: How to be the best Board member you can be

In my work supporting not-for-profit clients, I’m often asked about the role of the Board (and the Chairperson in particular) in supporting their organisations.

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