WFH: How to improve connection, focus and overall well-being
Some useful tips and tricks for you to implement in your own day to day life while working from home.
It’s not easy to balance office life with working from home; here are some pointers for inspirations to make the most out of your WFH situation.
For connection:
- Plan coffee dates to just do the ‘coffee-chats’
- Plan a team afternoon where you play games together.
- Plan a virtual lunch together.
- Take extra time for meetings, just a quick hey how are you doing, before diving into the details of the meeting.
- Check-out; do a quick check-out (opposite of the daily) to just discuss the day and say goodbye to each other!
For focus:
- Pomodoro all the way; I usually set the timer for 20min, during these 20min I close my ‘distraction-apps’ and get a crack at my focus-point which might be; writing an article, practicing a training or writing feedback for a colleague. After the 20min I re-open these apps to see if I missed anything, grab a drink, cuddle with the kitties and then ready to focus again.
- As a facilitator, take extra time to prepare meetings. There are plenty of tools out there to help you out with this and inform your team members in a timely manner so they also have extra time to prepare meetings.
For overall well-being:
- Morning Yoga ( I love to use ‘namaste in bed’, because well efficiency and lack of space).
- Be strict about your working hours, take that lunch-break away from your computer.
- Lunch walk, take a stroll outside even if it’s for 10min.
- Be ‘forgiving’ to yourself when you feel less productive, your overall-well being is worth more than that ‘extra’ hour you are putting in.
- After your workday, actually close your computer and put in somewhere else.
- Go for a walk after dinner, just a quick digestive walk to be a little active and prepare your body for rest.
What kind of new habits did you develop yourself?
Let me know if you want any tips and tricks on tools, remote facilitation of meetings or just a simple coffee chat to discuss your challenges & learnings!
