The global pandemic has prompted organizations to adopt hybrid work models and to embrace new, more flexible approaches to the workplace. At the ÀÖÓ¯VI the Work From Home (WFH) Program offers employees greater flexibility, work-life balance, and control over where and how they do their best work.
Within the hybrid context, though, leaders, teams, and individual contributors need to rethink how and where work is done to ensure the benefits of the hybrid work model can be fully realized while also meeting operational goals.
The resources on this page provide guidance and strategies to deepen leadership and workplace skills that will increase team effectiveness, engagement, productivity, and wellbeing.
Supporting Inclusion
Feeling a sense of belonging helps employee performance and engagement. Learn about three significant challenges that need to be addressed in support of inclusive teams.
Inequities in the workplace have the potential to worsen in the hybrid workplace. Learn about some strategies that can mitigate exclusionary practices.
Learn about how to use a coaching approach to support inclusion and accountability.
More Resources on Supporting Inclusion
Develop strategies in helping your team shift to the hybrid workplace as a “new normal” while developing agility, resilience, and inclusive practices.
Learn 5 ways to infuse your leadership and culture with greater diversity, equity, and inclusion.
(Self-paced, multimodal learning plan | 3 hours)
Leaders need to be able to relate to and lead people from all walks of life. Learn why leading more inclusively boosts your credibility as a leader, creates a strong professional environment, increases your ability to effectively lead, and ultimately will set you up for success as a leader.
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(Recorded webinar | 1 hour 43 mins)
In this recorded webinar, you will reflect on and explore how your personal values shape your leadership identity and how well that identity aligns with the inclusive-leader mindset. The leaders of today and tomorrow understand that inclusivity is not something you do when it’s convenient: inclusivity is a daily practice and mindset infused into your leadership identity.
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(Recorded webinar | 1 hour 35 mins)
In this recorded webinar, you will understand where your social and political position of power comes from and how it can influence your leadership in productive and counterproductive ways, which will enable you to align the values of different groups across the organization and operate as a truly inclusive leader.
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provides invaluable insight into the latest thinking about diversity and inclusion in Canada. As an Employer Partner with CCDI, anyone from the ÀÖÓ¯VI can enjoy free unlimited access to all CCDI webinars and resources using your ualberta email address when you register. .
Flexible Approaches to Leading, Coaching + Mentoring
Increasingly traditional management styles are being replaced with a coaching model as a tool to develop people and support increased engagement.
Equip yourself with eight essential coaching techniques that will help you motivate and build trust with your team.
Simon Sinek shares five practices that build trusting teams where employees can do their best work.
More Resources on Flexible Approaches to Leading, Coaching + Mentoring
Wondering about the best strategies for setting up your hybrid team for success? Here are ten tips to help ensure team alignment and to cultivate an engaged productive team.
How do you achieve the right balance between employee flexibility and meeting operational needs. Here’s some guidance on key components.
This paper makes a strong case for how leadership coaching can be a powerful intervention to help transitioning leaders navigate the turbulence that goes with systemic changes on university campuses.
Situational Leadership + Coaching
(Self-paced, video instruction | 2 hours)
Learn about practical leadership and coaching framework to ensure you are exercising your best options when coaching and leading others and that you are well equipped to have courageous conversations.
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This self paced learning video will walk you through simple tips and strategies for leading change. You don't need to be in a formal role to be a leader, as we all can exhibit leadership in our work, on projects, and with our teams. By understanding how change can impact individuals and teams, we can apply models that will help us as leaders in supporting our people through change and transition.
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Academic Impressions recorded like Coaching as a Pathway from Purpose to Action, Leading Under Stress and Pressure, Leading Through Uncertainty, and more. These Academic Impressions resources are offered free to you with a UÀÖÓ¯VI account. Don’t have an Academic Impressions account? Create an account/login.
Building + Maintaining Relationships within a Team
In this video Simon Sinek and his team model their weekly "huddle" designed to build relationships, connectivity, and trust in hybrid/remote teams
Trust is at the heart of health and productive teams. Brené Brown discusses the complexity of trust and why it’s so important.
In this 3 minute video, you’ll learn about steps you can take to develop your emotional intelligence ( EQ).
More Resources on Building + Maintaining Relationships within a Team
Effective managers balance analytical abilities with empathy