Best Return to Office Plan: A Team-Led Approach (Video and Podcast)

Return to Office

The best practice on the return to office plan involves a team-led hybrid-first model with some fully remote options. That means empowering lower-level team leaders to choose the work arrangement that best serves their team’s needs. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes a team-led approach for the best return to office plan.

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What Do Employees Want When They Return to the Office? (Video and Podcast)

What Do Employees Want

Our assumptions about what others want are often incorrect due to the cognitive bias called the false consensus effect. Extensive research shows that most employees place a premium on telework and work-life quality after the pandemic. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes what employees want when they return to the office.

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How to Do a Strategic Pivot to Address COVID (Video and Podcast)

strategic pivot

A strategic pivot will enable your company to survive and thrive during the COVID pandemic and in the post-COVID world. Start by challenging assumptions about your internal and external business model. Then, revise your strategy and determine next steps to operationalize these changes. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes how to do a strategic pivot to address COVID and the post-COVID world.

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The Secret of Getting Optimistic and Pessimistic Employees to Collaborate Effectively (Video and Podcast)

optimistic and pessimistic

Maximize the value that pessimists and optimists bring to your enterprise by helping them work together well. Optimists should generate half-baked ideas and give them to the pessimists, who would select the most viable notions and finish baking them into full-fledged plans. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes the secret of getting optimistic and pessimistic employees to collaborate effectively.

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3 Key Empathy-Based Methods to Uncover the Truth About Your Stakeholders (Video and Podcast)

Empathy

Using the three social intelligence methods during a stakeholder meeting will help you learn the truth about your stakeholders’ needs, which will empower you to solve their problems and foster stronger relationships with them. That’s the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, which describes the 3 key empathy-based methods to uncover the truth about your stakeholders.

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