Helping Leaders Deal with Mandatory Return-to-Office Requirements for Public Servants

Your government employees are being mandated to return to in-person office work two to three days per week. While some employees are open to a hybrid work model, public service unions say that a majority still want to keep working from home.

At Virtual Team Builders, we have worked closely with senior leaders in government and business since the start of the pandemic to implement virtual workplaces. Now we are helping organizations transition to new hybrid working models.

With last week’s announcement by the Treasury Board Minister, we understand the challenges of expecting your employees to spend 40% to 60% of their time at the office. The disconnect between what is being mandated and what employees want means that you as a team leader will have to address these concerns and create a fair and equitable hybrid environment.

Here are some of the key issues you will face

• Understanding the challenges of working in the new hybrid model and training your supervisors on how to lead their team through the change.
• ?Knowing how to respond to questions from front-line employees about the in-office requirements and how the logistics of the hybrid model apply to their situation.?

Identifying all the key horizontal co-working teams you need to connect with and figuring out how best to align various team schedules.?

?Determining the best ways to get the work done:

●??????What work needs to be done together (synchronously

●??????What work can be done separately (asynchronously)

●??????How to do mission-critical work (virtually or face-to-face)

Defining who works what day:

●??????Will everyone be mandated to come in the same days?

●??????Will employees be able to choose their days

●??????Who comes in two days/week and who does three?

Identifying how to reinforce the value of coming into the office for your employees:

●??????Sharing the office culture and building connections with colleagues

●??????Teamwork and collaboration that can't be recreated virtually

●??????Being able to better integrate and mentor new team members

Hybrid leadership training to drive success and productivity

It’s crucial that leaders like you strike the balance between government requirements, organization business needs, safety concerns, and employee preferences.

We can provide you with support in setting up and managing your hybrid team successfully. Our consulting and training process offers proven strategies to ensure your team is engaged and high performing.

?Here's our three-step process:

1. We meet with your leaders to help them position the benefits of coming back to the office and help them relate that message to their staff.
2. We conduct interviews with the leaders to assess their concerns with leading their teams in this new hybrid model.
3. We provide a detailed training plan for how best to move forward in this hybrid model.

About Virtual Team Builders

Our consulting, training and facilitation practice helps leaders build the workplace of the future.?With over 30 years’ experience of training leaders how to work effectively in virtual and hybrid environments we are your hybrid team building specialists.

To learn more about how we could support?your team do not hesitate to?contact us at [email protected]