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    • How to Use Sprints to Work Smart and Upskill
      How sprints can help your team tackle tough challenges, gain alignment, and collaborate better.
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    • How to Be a Facilitative Leader

      We talked with Dabney Hailey, founder and principal of Hailey Group, about the Visual Thinking Strategies (or VTS) method, why it works, how to bring elements of it into your daily practice, and why leaders should shift to the facilitative leadership style this method teaches. Here are six takeaways from our conversation.

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    • Mentor Moment: How Do I Onboard New Team Members To Encourage Collaboration?

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      Get activities and ideas for onboarding a team from IDEO’s Heather Currier Hunt.

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    • 3 Frameworks for Managing Organizational Change

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      Wondering how to create lasting change in your organization? Here’s how to identify your change journey and three frameworks to get started.

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    • Real Talk: How to Share Hard Truths With Your Team

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      Consider your delivery of difficult information an experience to be designed. Here’s a step-by-step guide to getting into messy truths.

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    • To Maintain Team Momentum, Shift Modes Of Working

      IDEO Senior Portfolio Director and IDEO U Instructor Katie Soven

      Katie Soven, senior portfolio director at IDEO and IDEO U course instructor shares how to maintain team momentum through complexity...

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    • Strengthen Your Intuition Muscle with This Activity

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      Try this activity at the start of a new project to help your team get comfortable tapping into their intuition.

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    • How Leaders Leverage Intuition to Navigate Complexity

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      IDEO Senior Portfolio Director Dwayne Edwards gives a framework for balancing intuition and data, shares strategies to surface an intuitive ability in yourself and in your team, and talks about the importance of building self-awareness to fuel your intuition.

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    • How to Build Culture Remotely: A Survey of Our Community

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      For many organizations, culture building has been impacted by remote work—and will need to be reimagined. The IDEO U community shared ideas on remote culture building, from connecting with your purpose to finding moments of celebration.

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    • Combat Remote Fatigue: Tips From the IDEO U Community

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      In a future of work that for many will be a combination of virtual and in-person, we’ll need to tackle one of the biggest challenges of remote work: Zoom fatigue. We reached out to the IDEO U community and heard your best tips on staying inspired and engaged, from making a new commute to designing an end-of-day ritual.

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    • The Future of Work is Hybrid: Here’s How to Thrive in the New Normal

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      Hybrid is harder, but it holds the potential for increased creativity and innovation. And it’s what most companies will look like as we come out of the Covid-19 pandemic and begin transitioning from fully remote to hybrid structures. Learn three things companies and individuals can do to thrive in a hybrid work environment, tactics for combating remote fatigue, and how to build team culture—not just camaraderie—in a virtual setting.

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    • 11 Pitfalls of Remote Work and How to Avoid Them

      If you’re struggling to feel settled at the makeshift workspace you’ve set up in your kitchen, or you’re taking work calls from your closet in an attempt to minimize interruptions from your kids, you’re not alone. The “rapid remote” shift many of us have undergone in the last few weeks due to COVID-19 brings its own set of challenges, far beyond the normal ones remote workers deal with daily.

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