A cohort-based learning experience

Next Cohort: Oct 11 - Nov 18, 2022

  • 5 self-paced modules and 3 live cohort sessions

  • 12-15 hours of content total over 5 weeks

  • Immediately applicable

Course curriculum

    1. Course Overview

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Get the course workbook and toolkit

    3. Join the course Slack community

    4. Complete the course pre-survey (5 mins)

    5. What's your vision for your hybrid team?

    1. Friday October 14th at 1 -2pm ET - 60 min

    1. What's your mindset?

    2. Introduction

    3. Moving from a fixed to growth mindset

    4. Featured story: Chris Grygo, Ford Foundation

    5. Solo Practice: Apply a growth mindset in hybrid work

    6. Team Practice: Retrospective

    7. Three strategies to sustain a growth mindset

      FREE PREVIEW

    8. Resources

    1. Friday October 21st 1-3pm ET - 2 hours

    1. Introduction

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. How has unconscious bias affected you and your team?

    3. Four strategies to mitigate bias in hybrid work

    4. Solo Practice: Identity switch up

    5. Featured Story: Tirzah Enumah, Equity and Inclusion Lead at August

    6. Team Practice: Interrupting unconscious bias together

    7. Resources

    1. Introduction

    2. How empowered are you and your team to make decisions?

    3. Featured Story: Jyoti Argade, Autodesk

    4. Steps for clarifying who decides and how

    5. Solo Practice: What decisions do you own?

    6. Team Practice: Clarifying your hybrid team's decision ownership

    7. Resources

About this course

  • $599.00

Meet this moment

80% of workers expect to work at home at least some of the time post-pandemic. For many teams, the future won’t be fully remote or all in-person. It will be hybrid. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to define your new normal.

  • Upgrade your team culture

    Create a thriving culture that combines the best (and mitigates the worst) of onsite and remote work.

  • Attract and retain top talent

    Prevent burnout. Address long-standing inequities. Give your team the autonomy they’re asking for.

  • Join a community

    You don't have to do this alone. Learn best practices from experts and join a community of peers.

In the words of our partners

“August’s hybrid playbook provided us with a helpful body of practices that built on what we’ve been doing and introduced new things to try. This “next normal” requires resiliency and confidence and August helped us navigate some choppy waters to set us on the right course.”

Nancy Wang, Pacific Life

“August's partnership has been invaluable as we become a hybrid global workplace. They don't just design, deliver and promote these clear, everyday practices for hybrid work; they live them in every interaction. Deep expertise coupled with their responsiveness, creativity and integrity place them among our most trusted partners.”

Christopher Grygo, Ford Foundation

This course is ideal for...

  • Team and Project leads

  • Divisional and Functional leads

  • Culture influencers and HR professionals

This course is taught by August

Erica Seldin

August Co-Founder

Erica is one of the world’s leading consultants to leaders and teams who want to build essential skills for the future of work. She brings her hard won wisdom to her recorded video lessons, pulling from her work as an org designer, strategist and coach to leadership teams at PepsiCo, Intel, Colgate-Palmolive, Bayer, Planned Parenthood, and the City of New York.

Learning Goals

By the end of this course you'll build essential leadership skills in several key areas:

  • Embracing a mindset of learning, making mistakes, and building hybrid skills over time

  • Identifying where bias can arise in hybrid work and selecting mitigation strategies

  • Clarifying who owns decisions in a way that empowers hybrid teams

  • Making every hybrid meeting purposeful and inclusive

  • Developing a set of explicit agreements to support your hybrid team in doing their best work