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Rethinking Return-to-Office

September 30, 2025

Return-to-office mandates miss the point. Discover why hybrid will become the new default and how leaders can design it for culture, retention, and results.

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The Future of Leadership in an AI-Powered Workplace

September 20, 2025

The rise of AI puts leadership at a crossroads: hand decisions to machines or design workplaces where humans and AI collaborate seamlessly.

Female leader standing at a crossroad where one path leaders to humans and AI's collaborating, while the other leads to a single AI robot.

The Virtual Office - A key component of the future of AI and human collaboration

September 12, 2025

Discover why the future of work will bring humans and AI teammates together in virtual offices. Learn how conversational AI and digital presence are reshaping collaboration, leadership, and workplace

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Beyond the Green Dot: Designing Leadership Presence for the Digital Age

August 14, 2025

How leaders can stay visible, approachable, and human in an increasingly digital workplace

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Designing the Virtual Office for Connection

July 6, 2025

Culture doesn’t grow by accident. Neither does connection. In physical offices, they emerge from architecture, rhythm, and proximity—none of which translate automatically into remote environments.

People Collaborating in a Virtual Office

Launching The Remote Work Formula — A Guide for the Modern Workplace

July 4, 2025

Launching The Remote Work Formula — A Guide for the Modern Workplace

Creating highly effective teams

June 25, 2021

High Empathy is the key to creating an effective working agreement that helps Distributed Teams succeed. This guide with help you with a step by step approach for doing this.

Designing virtual rooms for radical transparency

March 26, 2021

Creating context is a critical element for designing effective virtual workspaces. Virtual Offices like Berst can enable you to create radical transparency by connecting your context with rooms.

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Rapidly aligning multiple teams with OKRs

March 4, 2021

Contrary to the common advice, it is possible to align multiple teams around OKRs. When using a virtual office you, don't require physical rooms or movement so you can just focus on aligning.

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6 Easy Steps to Create a Company Culture Code

November 29, 2018

Culture codes help set clear expectations about how people work and act. In distributed working environment this can be a key factors in the difference between high and mediocre performance.

3 simple ways to build an inclusive team

May 18, 2018

Empathy is the key to building an inclusive team, especially in distributed teams when you can't rely on proximity. These 3 simple approaches can help you get off on the right foot.

Defining an Agile delivery plan with the OODA loop

August 18, 2016

Effective planning in Agile, allows teams to rapidly make decisions based on all readily available information to create an effective plan. This simple approach helps you do exactly that.

Three techniques to enable agile planning, (User Story Mapping, Risk Impact Mapping, Outcome Map).

Align your team with a strategy brief

July 28, 2016

Organisations typically approach creating team alignment by setting and sharing a company vision. But this often falls flat. A Strategy Back-brief enables organisations to bridge the execution gap.