Connect with purpose

For organisations to connect employees with a sense of purpose, the keystone is trust.

Recently, Soke Performance, the corporate outreach division of The Soke, was asked to deliver a tailored webinar for 24,000 plus staff across 7 locations for a global TechCo. The event offered the opportunity for reflection and learning around the emerging contention for staff of how to manage and balance working at home, in the office and taking the benefits of both, while establishing and maintaining strong relationships between co-workers and teams.

We explored the topic: Have you experienced good relationships within your hybrid working model? When has it worked, when has it not? What are the common denominators of these relationships? 

For this organisation, the conclusion was straightforward - establishing trusting relationships between people was at the foundation of a positive, productive and engaged team environment. Establishing and maintaining a hybrid working environment successfully therefore needed leaders to set the conditions for their teams to build these relationships, creating mutual trust, in the new environment, which needed different and complementary behaviours to emerge.

How are you feeling about hybrid working?  Do you think your company has set the conditions for it to be successful in the long term?

In times of significant change, of which long-term hybrid working is another, stress is an inevitable by-product, and this can lead to relationships closing down and communication receding. When it's at this very moment that organisations need to help people communicate more. Are you getting it right? If not, let us help.

To find out more about The Soke’s corporate services division please contact Ed Lowther, Head of Soke Performance.