Success Skills for High Performing Hybrid Teams

Cohort-based Course

Flexible work experts Mike Gutman and Mika Cross will transform your current hybrid experience into an intentional, actionable strategy.

Previously at

LinkedIn Learning
Dept. of Agriculture
FlexJobs | Find A Better Way To Work
edX
Opm

Course overview

Elevate your hybrid work journey to a new level of well-being and satisfaction!

Mike and Mika’s training has already transformed over a million lives, well before remote work became the norm.


We know that effective remote or hybrid work strategies do not happen overnight – and most teams are learning as they go. The key to unlocking true flexibility and productivity lies in intentional design and structured implementation. Let’s redefine the workplace together, crafting spaces where innovation thrives, and boundaries are reimagined.


Our cohort-based training model will transform your current experience into an intentional strategy that will elevate your work and your life. Our collaborative learning approach will enable you to learn alongside others and collectively redefine your work experience to embrace a flexible hybrid framework that is unique to your professional career path goals and objectives.


And you get the benefit of having the experts guide you the whole way.

Plus, you gain free access to a customizable hybrid team charter and other resources.


By the end of our course, you’ll emerge with a masterfully crafted flexible and hybrid work plan uniquely tailored to the nuances of your team and work environment. 


You will learn to:

• Reduce meetings

• Create healthier work relationships

• Solidify work and life boundaries

• Align on team and org goals

• Focus on results vs effort

• Build an inclusive team culture

• Create clear communication preferences


Upon completion of our course, you'll possess the skills to transform your hybrid work experience into a happier, healthier, and more productive work environment.


Join workplace experts Mika Cross and Mike Gutman, seasoned guides in the evolving landscape of work, with more than 25 years experience shaping the future of government and private sector teams. This course is your gateway to mastering the art of hybrid teamwork and personal career growth within a dynamic, community-driven learning sphere.

Who is this course for

01

Individual contributors who want to take control over their work experience.

02

Leaders looking to empower their team with a flexible, intentional and structured hybrid team experience.

03

Teams aspiring to quickly ramp up effectiveness in a hybrid environment.

04

Program Managers who lead remote or hybrid work programs for their organizations.

What you’ll get out of this course

Focus on Performance Outcomes

  • Create clarity with goals and outcomes 
  • Differentiate between effort vs outcome based goals
  • Adopt an impact vs effort based mindset
  • Implement tactics to increase accountability and trust
  • Build feedback loops to stay aligned with organizational goals


Enhance Productivity

  • Curate happy and productive workspaces 
  • Align tasks and work location with peak productivity
  • Leverage intentionality to increase work performance
  • Develop a personal hybrid productivity plan


Practice Effective and Proactive Communication

  • Build processes that reduce information isolation
  • Develop habits that promote efficient asynchronous and flexible work
  • Leverage tools to increase access and visibility of key information
  • Clearly identify and communicate goals and team alignment
  • Align on communication styles

Better Hybrid Meetings

  • Identify your team’s unique hybrid work environment
  • Apply healthy meeting hygiene protocols
  • Leverage engagement levels as a tool to optimize meeting performance
  • Create strategies to build meeting efficiency and cancel more meetings
  • Incorporate tactics that reduce meeting fatigue

Recognize and Avoid Bias

  • Identify and avoid proximity bias
  • Create an inclusive and transparent team dynamic
  • Creating access to mentors and leadership
  • Connecting in office to remote employees
  • Onboarding new hires in a hybrid workplace


Build Culture and Team Cohesion

  • Define the ideal team culture you want
  • Communicate intentional goals and outcomes around your office experience
  • Align daily tasks with the spaces best suited for those tasks
  • Embrace different perspectives and work styles
  • Negotiate and communicate your ideal work experience

Enhance the Employee Experience

  • Create an environment where individuals and teams feel supported
  • Develop a culture that celebrates bringing your whole self to work
  • Curate a well-being strategy that improves employee attraction and retention
  • Apply tactics that support the way individuals feel day-to-day

This course includes

Interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

5 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

Projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Post-course

    Congratulations, Next Steps & Resources

    1 item

    Week 3 - Define and Reinforce Your Work Culture

    1 item

    Week 4 - Feel Better About Your Work Experience

    1 item

    Week 1 - Measure What Matters

    1 item

    Week 2 - Dial in How You and Your Team Interact

    1 item

What people are saying

        Excellent info...wished I had known these strategies when I started working remote years ago.
Brenda Riley

Brenda Riley

Senior Technology Specialist
        Good tips and different options, not just one size fits all. Helpful!

 Adrian West

Adrian West

Supply Coordinator
        Excellent...very practical and realistic.
Allister Field

Allister Field

Data Quality Analyst
        Great course, easy to follow and very clear speakers with very relevant suggestions.
Rousseau Lorenda

Rousseau Lorenda

Customer Care Suppervisor

Meet your instructors

Mike Gutman

Mike Gutman

Mike has been leading remote teams for 15 years. As the former marketing director for FlexJobs, Mike helped connect the value of work flexibility to employer strategy and job seekers, including running corporate conferences on remote work strategy for fortune 100 companies. He is a Linkedin Learning author on topics such as remote work policy, remote work management, and day-to-day best practices and has reached over 1 Million learners. He currently works on remote workforce development projects and consults corporate leadership teams about their remote and hybrid work models.

Mika Cross

Mika Cross

Mika is a widely acclaimed transformational workforce expert, speaker, strategist and innovator specializing in interdisciplinary expertise in the areas of innovative global workplace initiatives, culture change, strategic communications, next generation/future workplace predictions, and employee engagement. Her career includes assignments throughout the United States Intelligence Community, across the Federal government and in private industry working with Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, academia and start-ups to leverage their flexible, remote and hybrid work flexibilities to achieve lasting competitive advantage.  


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Course schedule & workload

2-4 hours of weekly time investment.

  • 4 week cohort

  • 4 one-hour training sessions on Wednesdays.

    Noon - 1:00pm EST

    Live cohort training sessions facilitated by Mika and Mike on Zoom.

  • 8 Asynchronous training videos

    1 hour of total time

    Exclusive training sessions broken down by topic and delivered by Mika and Mike

  • Hybrid Charter Homework

    4-6 hours of total time

    Building out your customized hybrid strategy.

  • Shared learning and community building

    2-4 hours of total time

    There will be opportunities to network and collaborate with fellow learners.

  • 1-1s with Mika and Mike

    30 min

    There will be opportunities to have 1-1 coaching sessions with Mika and Mike for an added cost.

Free resource

Distributed Team Charter Worksheet

Team charters are key to helping distributed teams get on the same page when working in a flexible, dynamic environment.


Use this free worksheet to align on:

  • Managing Performance
  • Communicating and Collaborating
  • Building Culture
  • Prioritizing Health and Wellness
  • Optimizing the Employee Experience

 

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Learning is better with fellow leaders

Learning is better with fellow leaders

Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and real world exercises.

Learn with a cohort of leaders

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you.

Frequently Asked Questions

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