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What I Learned On My ‘Secret Sabbatical’ As a Scholar-in-Residence at a Private Company

Edsurge

Last fall I started my first day on the job as an embedded faculty member with a corporation—as a scholar-in-residence at Steelcase Education. But don’t be too impressed by the title; according to the employee system, I was just an intern. One such practice I saw at Steelcase was remote work.

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Four rules for hybrid meetings

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

In 2017 when I was on sabbatical at Steelcase , the Steelcase Education team had an all-hands meeting every Monday morning. Most especially, figure out some system of voting that can be done in a hybrid setting. So I have a particular agenda with this topic. But I think I'm not the only one.

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Renewing innovation

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Instead, it has a system of lights on its back that can be programmed to light up in different configurations depending on what is happening on the phone -- with the intent that you look at the lights, not so much at the screen. I saw what real innovation looks like up-close during my sabbatical at Steelcase.