Strategies you can employ today
Establish real connection - be a human-being, not simply a human-doing!
We are all spending an inordinate amount of our work day on video conference calls. The temptation is to make these calls as efficient as possible through getting straight down to business and avoiding any social interaction. The reality however, is that as well as facing new stressors connected to business processes and continuity, staff are increasingly suffering the ill-effects of spending time alone. Human contact is at a premium!
TIP: At the start of a call give each participant a moment to share where they are at. Here your willingness to LISTEN, CONNECT and EMPATHISE is far more important than a focus on fixing problems. What may seem like wasted time, may be the difference between you and your team coming through this current time in one piece, and in peace! If you are the team lead, then lead in this too. Do so by being authentic and appropriately vulnerable.
Communicate, communicate, communicate!
Trust is built and lost very quickly when communicating digitally. Vital body language cues are reduced. Keeping everyone well informed is now even more critical to team success.
TIP: Factor in additional time to keep everyone up to speed. Don't assume people know - check in with them. Increase the amount of VERBAL communication to compensate for the loss of visual cues - ask more questions! Overall, increase your FREQUENCY of communication.
Wellbeing is the new Health and Safety
Wellbeing is the new Health and Safety
Wellbeing is the new Health and Safety
A new decade focuses minds on the future and new strategies to encourage companies and individuals to thrive. And if there’s one commitment that the City should make in the 2020s, it’s to treat the mental health of staff as seriously as their physical health and safety. Andrew Rodgers of Reenvisage inspires.
A chance to reenvisage
Wellbeing is the new Health and Safety
Wellbeing is the new Health and Safety
Pressure changes people. As Sustainability and Wellbeing director for a global financial services company Andrew Rodgers harnessed the potential of pressure, to excel or eviscerate a team.