Business View Civil and Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 6

13 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 6 Here are a couple of ways I’m keeping my team’s culture alive in the hybrid environment: • Find ways to virtually capture in-person traditions: Determine how you can make an office-wide event accessible for both remote and in-person workers. For example, this year, consider incorporating a virtual component during your organization’s annual summer outing so both in-person and remote workers can connect and chat for an all-inclusive experience. • Create new, all-digital traditions to ensure remote team members don’t miss out: Whether employees are remote or onsite, it’s the perfect time to implement a fully-virtual event, such as an office-wide summer reading assignment or mindfulness challenge. This can further engage those employees who are in the office while enabling a larger participatory experience to those who are remote. As a bonus, it creates a space where remote workers can engage with their in- office colleagues and get to know each other through outside-of-work topics and discussions. Animated video trainings allow leaders to communicate with nuance about complicated topics like the return to work. This snippet from a training video was created with Vyond’s video animation software, which allows businesses to easily create professional animated trainings.