It's Time to Come Back!

Discussing Returning to the Office Workshop

Participants learn how to navigate challenging employee discussion about if, when, and how they are expected to transition from work-from-home to a return to the office. In addition to learning how to broach the topic in a most effective way, your professionals learn how to handle resistance, how to advocate their position both effectively and in a way that protects the relationships, and how to collaboratively identify solutions that are acceptable to all parties.

Participants practice applying the Tough Management Conversations: Discussing Returning to the Office framework throughout a variety of exercises and case-studies, including customized simulations that incorporate contexts and nuances inherent to your organization.

Learning Objectives:

• Engage tough management conversations about returning to the office successfully
• Realize organizational objectives with minimal push-back, disengagement, or attrition
• Transform tough conversations into opportunities for relationship building and problem solving
• Avoid tension and hostility by using constructive communication
• Increasing understanding through effective communication
• Manage differences effectively and productively

Learning Objectives:

• Constructive Candor Reflecting
• Surfacing underlying interests
• Understanding the impact of, and resistance to, change
• Influencing Strategies
• Effective advocacy
• Actively listening
• Communicating understanding and empathy
• Increasing emotional intelligence through learning loops

Discussing Returning to the Office workshop