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A hybrid work environment that works for all

Remote work or flexible work arrangements were not unheard of before the pandemic. However, the shift gained huge momentum and organizations had to react quickly to ensure the "work" is sustained. Many hybrid models emerged right after the first months into the pandemic and there are still many big, small or medium companies looking to find their own approach, and move from a temporary setting into a sustainable model. 

In this course, you will understand the foundations of hybrid models and work with leading examples of different approaches. 

As a leader, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and tools that will take you the steps for co-creating the hybrid environment for your team or company. 

You'll be able to ask questions to experts in the course sections.

This Shaker Academy course is about "co-creating a winning hybrid workplace"!
Shaker Academy is founded by the "Shake up the Workplace!" initiative to access Future of Work enthusiasts and enable them to take action through online knowledge sharing. This course was the first course created as a reaction to support workplaces during pandemic worldwide and has been updated over time. Shake up the Workplace! is the only active Future of Work ecosystem within Europe.

You can find more information about the Shake up the Workplace! here.   

Who has already joined?

Some of our participants come from these companies

What our participants have to say

When I first heard that Shake Up The Workplace was doing a Hybrid Workplace Academy, I knew I had to sign up!
The possibility to exchange ideas and learn tools to create a hybrid workplace was my highlight throughout this program. 
I found the sessions very well thought through, the methods and tools chosen were on point, and the sessions opened the doors to the possibility to keep exploring.

Ria Oana, EdTech & New Work Lead at Kickstart Innovation

Duration

  • Online self-paced
  • 9 hours of content
  • Study 3 hours/week to finish in 3 weeks

Access

  • 12 months to courses and the membership to the community
  • 12 months to obtain your certificate

Content

  • 5 modules + 1 recorded exclusive roundtable 
  • 28 video lessons + workbooks and a final assignment

What is in this course?

  • Detailed knowledge on how hybrid workplaces work
  • 5 main modules split into digestible videos, scroll to the end to see the titles 
  • 1 recorded roundtable joined by companies who are front runners in hybrid
  • Case studies for each chapter
  • Modules are led by experts in their own fields
  • Access to the course for a year 
  • Questions and Answers sessions live or on the platform
  • Access to Shaker Community or Shaker Community Membership for a year
  • Time-conscious mini homework and an assignment
  • Shaker Certificate 

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Course Modules

The Co-creating the Hybrid Workplace Course is made up of five modules delivered by experts in their own fields. Each module is divided into digestible small video content, containing articles, and social exercises, for reflection.
Be sure to share your reflections in the comments and learn from your peers.

Want to know more? Download the syllabus below.
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Why join?

Learn what you need to take action on

You will not only understand the key factors of a hybrid workplace but you will be equipped with tools to create an action plan. So you can co-create the hybrid workplace work for you - your team - or your company.

Become a workplace shaker


You will receive a Shaker Certificate after the successful completion of the course. You will be officially entitled to learnings from the next day and co-create a hybrid workplace that fits your company the most. 


Shaker Certificate

After completing the five modules and handing in your assignment you will be awarded your Shaker certificate.

Who is this for?

People-centric team leaders

Studies say the biggest burden is on the managers right now. 
With the right knowledge about hybrid workplace, you can set your team back on track and minimize the burden on you. 

HR and Operations professionals

Everybody is wondering about the next step. We know it is about co-creating. You will be equipped to help your company co-create the right approach, empower and lead through the unknown by joining this course. 

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Co-creating a Hybrid Workplace

  • Course
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The first professional course available online for creating a Hybrid Workplace for people-centric leaders and HR professionals. Get immediate access.
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The future is hybrid

The answer to the poll on our Linkedin page was loud and clear. Gartner recent study shares the findings that companies should build hybrid work models that centers

☑️ Employee-driven flexibility
☑️ Intentional collaboration
☑️ Empathy-based management

Shaker Academy's first course showing exactly that in its 6 modules. Enroll by September 6th.

Table of contents

All you need to know about this course



Welcome to "Co-Creating a Hybrid Workplace"!
Preview

Module 1: Hybrid Workplace concept - Personalization at work

To kick our course off, we will start with the module "THE HYBRID WORKPLACE - PERSONALIZATION AT WORK".

  • You will get answers to what makes a workplace hybrid and why we need to embrace it (it is the future 😉).

  • We will also dive deeper into "personalization", a term known from marketing and now transferred into the organizational context. Together with Bilge Apak and Daniel Stoller-Schai all of us will figure out how we go about it with real-life examples.

Are you interested in learning more from Bilge or Daniel?
Get in touch with our academy host Aleksandra Potrykus here. 
1.1 The Hybrid Workplace Concept
1.2 Stages of a Hybrid Workplace
1.3 Pros and Cons & Hybrid Company examples
1.4 Personalization at work
1.5 Co-creation
Downloadable module slides
Personalization case study: Connected Workplaces by Cisco
Mini homework: Personalization Workbook
Recommended Reading: Microsoft Work Trend Index Report 2021 March
BONUS: What will the workplace of the future look like?

Module 2: The role Culture plays in a flexible environment

Transforming into a hybrid workplace model requires a significant organizational and cultural shift. During Module 2 "The role Culture plays in a flexible environment", we explore the role of culture and leadership in the new hybrid environment.

You’ll discover together with our experts Lesley Powell and Katrin Grunwald how to create psychological safety and build a culture in your teams and organization that will support collaboration in the hybrid setting.

Interested in learning more from Lesley? Check out her workshop here.
Interested in learning more from Katrin? Check out her workshop here. 
2.1 Introduction to module 2
2.2 Psychological safety
2.3 The role of Leadership
2.4 Hybrid Team Canvas
2.5 Q&A for facilitation of Hybrid Team Canvas Session & mini assignment .mp4
Downloadable session slides
Hybrid Team Design Canvas
Mini Homework - Culture in a Flexible Environment Workbook
Recommended Reading: Psychological safety and the critical role of leadership development
Recommended Reading: Sloan Review MIT - How to prevent return to the offices from being an emotional roller coaster
BONUS: Introduction to Trust - Trust Rocks but what does it take?

Module 3: Keeping up with technology and tools

In Module 3, "Keeping up with Tech & Tools", our experts Christoph Koch, Bilge Apak, and Özgür Olgun will take you through what part of technology is key for a hybrid model at the enterprise level and the individual employee level.

Furthermore, during the module, we will provide you with an overall understanding of the hybrid tool ecosystem, walk you through certain scenarios, and share tools examples to help you better understand these new products and how they can enable us in the hybrid reality.

Want to learn more from Özgür Olgun? Check his workshops here.
Want to learn more from Bilge Apak? Check her workshops here. 
3.1 Introduction to module 3
3.2 Understanding the technology needed for Hybrid Working
3.3 Cisco on Connectivity
3.4 Cisco on the Intelligent Workspace
3.5 Collaboration and Communication Tools
3.6 Digital Skills
Downloadable session slides
The tools for hybrid on Airtable
2019 Research - Hybrid Meetings in the Modern Workplace: Stories of Success and Failure
Recommended Reading: Stanford researchers identify four causes for ‘Zoom fatigue’ and their simple fixes
BONUS: How can technology enable a Hybrid Workplace in Covid times?
BONUS: Talking hybrid with the General Manager of Cisco Switzerland

Module 4: Managing meeting effectiveness, inclusion and innovation

What are the ways of working in the hybrid workplace for remote and on-site employees?
Our processes that worked for office life will not be exactly working on the hybrid model. We are already experiencing remote meeting restrictions. 

  • How should we maintain effectiveness after also adding the complexity on-site and online combination?
  • How do we keep inclusive of those who are not able to meet face to face?
  • How can we continue to innovate?

Our experts Jane Piper and Linda Armbruster will answer these questions together through examples and best practices in Module 4 "Meeting effectiveness, inclusion, and innovation".

Are you interested in learning more from Jane? Check her workshops here.
Are you interested in learning more from Linda? Please contact us here. 
4.1 Introduction to module 4
4.2 Effective meetings
4.3 Bias and Inclusion in Meetings
4.4 Innovation in Hybrid
Downloadable Session Slides
Mini Homework - Hybrid Meetings Workbook
BONUS: Powerful Check-in and Check-out Questions

Module 5: Wellbeing and resilience in the hybrid workplace reality

While shifting into the new hybrid work reality employee wellbeing and resilience became more important than ever as part of the agenda of leaders in any organization.

In Module 5 "Wellbeing & Resilience in Hybrid Reality" of Shaker Academy, our facilitators of the session Réka Deák, wellbeing designer, culture transformation consultant, and coach, and Linda Jarnhamn, business transformation leader applying neuroscience to work and founder of flow2thrive, will help you to learn, explore and define:

➡️The role of wellbeing and resilience in the new world of work - the hybrid environment
➡️What it means to you and your organization
➡️Taking the first steps towards change and co-creating the new reality

Are you interested in learning more from Reka? Check her workshops here.
Are you interested in learning more from Linda? Please contact us here. 
Pre-coursework: List of interesting articles and studies to read
5.1 Introduction to module 5
5.2 Wellbeing and Resilience
5.3 A Model for Corporate Wellbeing
5.4 Wellbeing Trends and Case Studies
Downloadable session slides

Roundtable with experts

Empowering people to take actions towards their desired Future of Work, using the ecosystem’s collective brain is one of our main missions at Shake Up The Workplace.

So as a bonus, we've included this recording of our closing roundtable with amazing thought provokers - please meet 

Esther Roman is leading Leadership & Talent Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund. We are eager to learn more from Esther about Migros Group’s approach to hybrid workplace across their diverse employee population!

Tobias Steger is the PR & Communications Lead at Microsoft Switzerland. Tobi will share how a company like Microsoft, which was hybrid even before the pandemic is tackling the new paradigm shift now - and what challenges they share with the rest of us. Plus we will learn from their Workplace Index, showcasing data about the hybrid workplace going forward.

Jochen Wallisch is responsible for Industrial Relations, Labor Law, Employment Conditions, Compensation & Benefits, and Professional Education at Siemens AG, heading parts of the Global HR Business Partners and the entire Human Resources department for Siemens in Germany. In this function, he also sets the framework for shaping the “future of work” at Siemens, together with startups, research institutes, and social partners.

Chris Slater the Chief Executive Officer of Sanctus will let us know how he leads an organization that is changing the perception of mental health and building the world’s first mental health gyms.

Shaker Academy will end its modules with a roundtable which will be moderated by a Thought Provoker herself, Chantelle Brandt Larsen DBA (SBS) 🇸🇭🇦🇮🇬🇧🇨🇭 from the University of St. Gallen - HSG, where she shapes the learning journeys companies take to be future-ready. 
Shaker Academy_Hybrid_Closing Roundtable.mp4

Course Assignment

Upon handing over your assignment we will share with you your certification of the course. 
Course Assignment: Writing a Hybrid Work 'Minifesto'

Additional Resources

How to do Hybrid Right by Harvard Business Review
Dave Ulrich: A new mandate for Human Resources written in 1998

Testimonials about Shake Up The Workplace

I personally had a wonderful experience. Very energizing to attend a conference that is challenging the way things have been done in the past. It was refreshing to mix the big corporations with other players like academia and start-ups. Also, it was inspiring to see how our group really engaged with our session and showed up vulnerable, which is a very important condition for our approach to be meaningful.

Irene Hornero Garrido, Global Leadership Development Transformation Lead

I am really proud to be part of the 'Shake up the Workplace' community, it is a warm and welcoming group that meets to exchange ideas on how to make work better. There is plenty of opportunities to learn and get involved with virtual coffee discussions, webinars, in-person meetings, and an active Slack channel. It is great to be connected to like-minded people all striving for a better work environment.

Fran Maitland, Global HR Leader

The Shake Up The Workplace Team created such a safe space for us all to interact and network. The breakout sessions were very insightful and the speakers inspiring. I still can't believe we got to be at the Kunsthaus for this, huge kudos to you for making this happen! 
Congratulations on a really successful outcome and bringing together very interesting people and backgrounds. Well done you all!

Daniela Landherr, Head of Talent Engagement & Outreach