Bricks+Brands Podcast - The Secret to Successful Hybrid Work Featuring Nola Simon

The Secret to Successful Hybrid Work Featuring Nola Simon

04/26/22 • 49 min

In this episode of the Bricks+Brands Podcast, we’re speaking with an international consultant who has been a pioneer in remote work since 2012.
In this conversation, we cover:

Hybrid & remote work
Employee engagement
Employee advocacy
Leadership
Future of workplace culture

Meet Nola Simon

She's an international consultant who has helped develop hybrid/remote work teams for the last 10 years. People hire Nola because she knows how to get things done. Challenging the status quo is bred in the bone.

She's worked for five (5) different corporations, two (2) of them global, over the last two decades.

She's developed extensive business acumen and experienced lots of change. Nola pioneered hybrid work and has worked some version of hybrid and/or remote since 2012.

It changed her life.

The secret to hybrid work is intention. Communication matters - it requires listening, asking great questions, establishing trust and psychological safety. Flexibility and a willingness to experiment and adjust course is the way to build effective culture and process.

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In this episode of the Bricks+Brands Podcast, we’re speaking with an international consultant who has been a pioneer in remote work since 2012.
In this conversation, we cover:

Hybrid & remote work
Employee engagement
Employee advocacy
Leadership
Future of workplace culture

Meet Nola Simon

She's worked for five (5) different corporations, two (2) of them global, over the last two decades.

She's developed extensive business acumen and experienced lots of change. Nola pioneered hybrid work and has worked some version of hybrid and/or remote since 2012.

It changed her life.

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Why withholding information can actually be beneficial to a team (in certain situations)

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Meet Rhonda Delaney
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Why?
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