How Technology Will Fuel Flexible Working with Microsoft’s Sandhya Rao
Release Date: 09/30/2020
Designing the Hybrid Office We Return To
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Anne-Laure Fayard is an associate professor of innovation, design and organization studies at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. The return to the office is central to many debates, as well as how organizations should rethink these spaces and the technology that teams use to collaborate. In this episode, we look at how to recodify and design the office for hybrid work, what we should use it for, and how managers and organizations can communicate and lead teams through the return to office.
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Technology's Ripple Effect in the Future of Higher Education
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Vijay Govindarajan is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, a faculty partner at Silicon Valley incubator Mach49 and an executive fellow at Harvard Business School. In this episode, we discuss how technology will disrupt education models, why corporations will need to play a bigger part in higher education and what skills the job market might have as a result. You can mail us on for any feedback, visit for more insights and episode transcriptions, and follow us on or for product and podcast news and...
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Body Language and Emotional Intelligence in Hybrid Work
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Sara Nyström, the executive director of the Center for Body Language, is a global leader in body language training for business. Understanding micro expressions and body language is key for sales, negotiations and leaders. In this episode, we talk about building better relations across hybrid teams and understanding micro expressions to enhance our emotional intelligence and adapt to the cues and clues of virtual working environments.
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Strategic Storytelling for Impactful Presenting in Hybrid Work
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David JP Phillips, international author, speaker and coach, is an expert on the skills it takes to communicate with others. In this episode, we examine how to use storytelling in a professional context to master presenting in hybrid work environments. Find out why introverts are usually better presenters than extroverts, how to use neuroscience to your advantage in your storytelling and how communication can better every area of our lives. You can mail us on for any feedback, visit for more insights and episode transcriptions, and follow us...
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Handling Burnout During the Pandemic
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Michael Leiter, an internationally renowned psychologist, has focused much of his career on improving the quality of work life and studying the causes of burnout. In this episode, we discuss the relationship problem at the core of burnout, how to recognize, prevent and recover from burnout and the ways in which organizations can create a better ways of working for employees for our hybrid working future. You can mail us on for any feedback, visit for more insights and episode transcriptions, and follow us on or for product and podcast...
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Work Life Balance for Working Parents
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Alyssa Westring, is an associate professor of management at the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University and author of : The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life. For over 15 years she has been studying work life integration with a particular focus on working parents and women’s careers. In this episode, we discuss a toolkit for working parents, and how managers and organizations can support their teams for a hybrid working future. See more of Alyssa's work at or purchase her book, , on Amazon. You can mail us...
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The Impact of Sound on Productivity and Wellbeing
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Julian Treasure, top-rated international speaker on sound and communication skills, and founder of audio branding company the Sound Agency, has a mission to help people and organizations listen better. In this episode, we discuss the rarity of conscious listening, the skills needed to speak powerfully and how sound affects our productivity and wellbeing. Find out more about Julian by visiting his website at You can mail us on for any feedback, visit for more insights and episode transcriptions, and follow us on or for product and podcast news and...
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Effective Presenting & Communication in Virtual Environments
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Matt Abrahams, Stanford Graduate School of Business lecturer, and co-founder of consulting agency Bold Echo, knows first hand that our ideas are only as good as our ability to express them. While it's challenging to effectively present and communicate in-person, it has a whole new dimension in virtual environments. In this episode, we discuss overcoming speaking anxiety, how to capture and hold others' attention, and the tools any speaker needs to strategically communicate. You can mail us on for any feedback, visit for more insights and episode transcriptions, and...
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Soundbar Recap: Hybrid Working Season One Highlights
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What have we learnt after one year of remote working? In this episode, we recap some of the best pieces of advice from season one, covering productivity, self-control, remote working and the relationships we have with our jobs. Next week, the second season of the Soundbar launches. You can expect conversations with leading academics and professionals around the new normal ways of hybrid working. Join us as we dive into the world of work and discuss how we can work smarter, lead better and adapt to a future of flexible working.
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Using Tech to Empower Educators with Digital Learning Expert John Watson
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John Watson is the Founder and CEO of Evergreen Education Group and a leading educator researcher and advisor for over 20 years. In this episode we discuss topics such as adapting to online and hybrid learning, digital teaching best practices and how to use tech to give power back to teachers in virtual environments.
info_outlineSandhya Rao is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Teams, and in this episode we discuss topics including the explosive growth of the platform, optimizing our home-working and the changes we can expect to see for a safe return to the office.