Building Successful Hybrid Teams (Back to Work, Better)

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🗓️ 27 July 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Tsedal Neeley, professor at Harvard Business School, has been studying remote work and global teams for years. In episode 732 early in the pandemic, she shared how managers could lead their teams while many team members worked from home. Now, as more people return to more in-person work, she’s back on the show to help managers lead their teams effectively in a hybrid workplace, a mix of working from home and the office. Neeley is the author of the book "Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere", and the HBR article “15 Questions About Remote Work Answered.”

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0:00.0	So you got the job. Now what? Join me, Eleni Mata, on HBR's new original podcast, New
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0:30.0	Welcome to the HBR ID Acast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickish, the sudden shock to the
0:50.2	workplace of the COVID-19 pandemic forced many companies to transition to remote work. They
0:56.4	had to quickly figure out how to function well amid a lot of uncertainty. And now many of them
1:02.9	are transitioning back to more in-person work, and they're often trying to blend some old and
1:08.4	new ways of working as they move forward. For employees who've been through this, it's a lot to deal
1:14.4	with. Many people feel out of sync or even out of sight. They want to build trust with their
1:20.1	coworkers, they want to maintain connections, but they also want to keep a proper work-life balance.
1:26.0	Meanwhile, managers want to know how to lead teams effectively within this combination of
1:30.9	in-person and remote work. They want to help their employees with this too. Today's guest studies
1:37.0	remote and global work, and she's here to help us navigate the hybrid work that seems to be here
1:42.3	for the foreseeable future. Seidall Neely is a professor at Harvard Business School. She's also the
1:48.4	author of the book, Remote Work Revolution, succeeding from anywhere. Seidall is great to have you
1:53.6	back on the show. It's so great to be with you, Kurt. We spoke to you over a year ago just
2:00.6	as the pandemic was beginning to take hold and people were scrambling to figure out how to
2:05.4	navigate working from home. How are things different today? What have we learned from this experience?
2:11.6	How vividly I remember that time when we were having conversations around,
2:16.2	will remote work work? And here we are today where most companies have not only discovered that
2:22.9	remote work works. Productivity is in fact increased for most organizations. And now because
2:30.6	remote work has become a fundamental part of how they achieve their goals and how employees
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