Sponsored by Nola Simon Advisory: Learn More From This Bonus Podcast Episode

This is an experiment - a repurposed LinkedIn audio room I recroded this morning.  I stopped the recording before I invited anyone up on stage.

Here's the newsletter I wrote about the offer:

The thing about corporate budgets is that you have to use them, or you lose them.

A current state audit of your hybrid/remote strategy is an ideal way to resolve this issue and set your company up well for 2024.

What’s your vision for distributed work?  I don’t mean right now but 5 or 10 years from now.

Do you want to be an employer of choice with a wildly successful company and people who are happy, healthy, and fully engaged in their work?

The decisions we make now about when, where, and how we work will inform the future of work.

It’s worth investing in.

Maybe you are confused by the constant headlines about huge employers implementing harsh return to office mandates.  Is that the future? What data do you trust? Maybe you’ve implemented a strategy but it’s not working.  Are people refusing to go to the office?  Is there turnover? Are your people disengaged? Has trust in your leadership eroded?

Disengagement is an $8.8 trillion workplace problem according to Gallup. You aren’t alone.

What if I told you that it’s less about data and more about imagination?

What if I told you that you can set a course for the future of work you want to see and use the data along the way to adjust and adapt the strategy? Trends, scenario planning, strategic foresight all inform future-focused strategy.

You need to know where you are to see where you need to go.

That’s where the current state audit can help. Book your spot now.

What’s in the box?

• Strategic Kick Off Call
• Imagination training workshop for executive leaders
• 1:1 executive interview, small focus groups
• Assessment of employer brand and communications
• Overall Report
• Final Presentation of current state and recommendations for future action
• Next Steps Workshop
• 4-6 weeks
• $10,000

 

Fully remote, asynchronous except for the kick off call, interviews, final presentation, and workshop.

Company to assist with scheduling, provide all previous qualitative and quantitative assessments, engagement surveys.

Limited spots. Once limit reached, I will start a waitlist. Payment in 2023, work completed in 2024.

Who am I?

If you don’t happen to know me, I’m Nola Simon.  I’m a hybrid/remote futurist located in Ontario, Canada.  I’m an international B2B consultant who has advised hybrid/remote work teams for the last 10 years.  I have the ear of senior transformation consultants and futurists around the world.  I also host a chart topping podcast called the Hybrid/Remote Centre of Excellence with more than 70 episodes on leadership, management and career development – let’s co-create the future of work.  It starts with hybrid/remote. Want to know more?  Check out my website and my LinkedIn profile.

FAQs

Why Nola Simon Advisory instead of a big-name consulting firm?

I’ve been involved in strategically influencing hybrid/remote for 10 years. It’s the rare big firm consultant who ever worked outside of an office pre-pandemic.  When you hire me, you get me and my experience.  Big firms often have senior staff handle the sales presentations, but the junior staff do the work.

What do you know that we don’t?

I designed hybrid/remote strategy from the inside as an operations subject matter expert, an individual contributor.  This means that my expertise is unconventional and very different from most consultants who either worked as traditional leaders or have an HR background.  I’ve been called the voice of the employee, but I combine this with deep research into futurism, leadership, organizational design, and HR. My podcast is in the top 25 leadership podcasts all time. A short-term engagement is a great way for us to get to know one another - behaviour change takes 12-18 months.

Why an external consultant at all?

It’s hard to change a system when you work within it.  Your employees work within a hierarchy and it’s sometimes hard to deliver hard messages when you are worried about your next performance review. 

What will the outcomes and deliverables be?

• 2 presentations
• 2 workshops
• 1 report,
• 1:1 executive interviews, small focus group interviews

 

(the number of interviews and focus groups will depend on company size and will be negotiated)

If you’ve been stressing how to improve your distributed work strategy or worried that Amazon and Nike know something you don’t about return to office mandates, a current state audit can help you understand how your company is doing. If you’ve implemented a strategy already but feel it’s not quite right, we can look at how we can improve it even more. No one has all the answers about the future of work – each company needs a solution customized for them and their employees. It’s not a cut-and-paste type of problem.

Do the work now and you will set yourself up to achieve that vision of being an in demand, successful employer dedicated to the health and wellbeing of your employees. 

I can help you.  Book your spot now.

Don’t let your unused 2023 budget haunt your 2024.

Who doesn’t want to be known as a future-focused innovative and trusted leader?