How are you managing the ‘blend’

Our work can often blend a little too much into home life in these times of remote working and working from home. 

Some people call it ‘living where you work’ or ‘working where you live’ !

Here are 4 things to try to keep a harder line between them : 

1. Establish a work area
2. Change your clothes 
3. Create a fake commute
4. Use a different page for work/home apps

Read more in this article from psychotherapist Amy Morin in Business Insider.

Face to face ➡️ Online How did you change

As many face to face workshops and meetings shifted online over the past year, it’s curious to look back: What did you change? 

If you’d planned an agenda, how did things need to adapt? 
Did you change the duration? 
Or the time between breaks, or length or number of breaks? 

Did you change what was planned?
What about group activities and collaboration? 

Did you accelerate and make things faster? Or did you need more time, multiple meetings instead of one? 

Many meetings and workshops that went online, only changed mode: sadly, they remained as disengaing and unproductive as ever!

But now as more hybrid arrangements begin - some people are online, some people are mobile or onsite - we need to consider, adapt and change things again. 

How did you first adapt meetings and workshops that moved online? 

Hybrid Work - Masterclass

Hybrid Work: some people are here, some are there, some people are alone, some are together. Onsite or offsite, work better with everyone

The new realities of work mean you’ll more likely be having a mix of where people are located, for every meeting, workshop, team and project. 

The world of work continues to change. Not everyone is working from home, OR working from an office. 

Be prepared and know what tools, techniques, processes and methods to use to lead in this unique experience of a hybrid workshop or meeting. 

You can't just 'wing it.'

I've been leading a 2-hour masterclass to answer:
- how to achieve and maintain engagement across all of these different spaces
- how to know people are engaged and participating
- how to get people involved
- how to you use breakout rooms if not everyone is on their own device
- what do we need to do differently than if everyone is in the one place (all online or all in the one location).

People said: 
“Best facilitated online session during COVID”
“The most engaging facilitator I’ve seen”
“Lots of good stuff & fun at the same time”.

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3 tips for leading hybrid groups

Hybrid. It means ‘composite’ or ‘cross’. And the locations of people in this new world of work can certainly create a mix or cross of several things. 

Some people continue to work from home. 
Some are on site or on location with clients or suppliers. 
Others are in offices or shared working spaces. 
Some are mobile. 

And it will change. 

Here are just 3 of the many things to consider when leading a team and working hybrid:

▫️Who’s here ... who’s there. 
Know where people are located. And continue to call them by their name, not by their location. 

▫️Who’s together ... who’s alone 
Know whether people are co-located with others, or working alone. Consider how you’ll encourage greater connection and inclusion among and across the hybrid team. 

▫️On the same page ... on a different page
Identify where people’s thinking is at. Are you aligned and united or is there some work to do to clarify and build understanding?


As we work together in these hybrid ways, new techniques, tools and considerations will help us adapt and do well. 

It’s not easy and it won’t be flawless. 

But it’s worth the persistence for better connections with each other. 

12 things to do when leading HYBRID groups

When some people are here and others are offsite or in another location, don’t just wing it, or bumble through it. 

Plan for it, and be ready to adapt. 


These are the things I prepare, consider and address when I’m training or facilitating, to bring a team or group together who are spread over several locations. 

It’s not everything but it’s many things. They take into consideration that we are all humans, just trying to do the best we can - often under some tricky or less then perfect conditions. 


The 12 things:

Plan - what is it
Tools - which ones
Structure - what am I following
Tech - what are we using

Activities - which ones 
Questions - what will I ask
Techniques - what will I do if...
Input - how will I collect it

Visualize - how will I show it 
Warmth - how will I convey it
Adapt - am I willing to
After - then what...


This is my checklist for a meeting or workshop and I don’t ‘take off’ without having considered or prepared them.