Sticky Learning Lunches #4: Use Your New-Found Time Productively Whilst Working From Home

Get the secret to having laser-like on your productivity with episode 4 of the Sticky Learning Lunches.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon everybody. Slight technical hitch and we still made it at one and a half minutes, just over the start time. So we are just getting prepared. People are still arriving. Nice number of people here. Ready? Again, just making sure that everyone is ready. Bottle of drink, water, herbal tea, whatever it is, you need to keep it going. Staying hydrated, sun's out to make sure we're looking after ourselves. Also, pens and paper at the ready as well.

Nathan Simmonds:

We'll give it another 30 seconds while we're waiting for people to come in. Couple more of people arriving. Fantastic heads up. Gonna give you, um, a little bit of a intro for the end of those. Those of you that are staying till the end of the session today, we've got a little bit of bonus material for you, which I'm really excited to be sharing some new coaching tips and tools, um, from the the MBM lab and also gonna openly invite you guys that are arriving now, get registered for Tuesday's session.

Where to start when working from home?

 

Nathan Simmonds:

So these lunchtime learnings, these, these sticky lunch, learn lunchtime learnings are gonna continue for as long as you guys need it. For as long as we're in this situation in lockdown, we're gonna be doing a one o'clock session, a 20 minute micro learning with q and a every single day until things go back to some sort of normal, whatever that might look like in the future. So right now we're gonna share the link. Alison, you can't hear me. We have some challenges with this. Can anyone, can? Who? Is there anyone else that can't hear me? Crash? Anyone else? Can't hear me?

Nathan Simmonds:

Can hear you fine. Okay. Can hear me throwing my drink all down myself. It's a good look. We might have to edit that one out for the, uh, the upload. Just saying, Alison, just double check your speaker and your volume. I just had to do a complete system, shut down and then come back into this. Um, because we had some technical challenges there, but the reboot seemed to help. Apparently it cures 98% of all problems. Um, if you speak to your IT service desk, um, I'm not sure about that though. Highly debatable.

Nathan Simmonds:

So make sure everyone else has got a drink 'cause I now don't. Good. So the first thing I wanna share with you guys is the link for next Tuesday's learning. Okay, Alison, you might have to go out and come back in. Computer audio should be the right one. Double check your headphone port, all of those sorts of things. Take it out, put it back in, everything like that. If not, come out of GoToWebinar, come back into it afresh and see if that works.

Nathan Simmonds:

So next we're gonna be dealing with, we're gonna continue to look at the mindset model today. Um, we're gonna be looking at D which is about deliverables. Now on Tuesday when we're gonna come back to this, we're gonna be looking at space, which is gonna be talking about our environment. So we're gonna share the link for next Tuesday's session. So you can plug into that immediately and get registered for that session. It's gonna come up immediately at the beginning of the next working week. Okay, I think we're good to go Alison. We will return back shortly, I feel. Brilliant. Let's go, let's do this. Let's make sure we've got some good cover pens.

Nathan Simmonds:

Keep those in the pocket. Fantastic. So guys, welcome aboard. Welcome to this lunchtime learning. Really appreciate you being here. I'm looking forward to sharing the content from today. Picked up some gems this morning. I'm looking forward to sharing those with you as well. So good. Welcome to Sticky lunchtime sticky learning lunches. This is MBM, the Home of Sticky Learning. And we are the soft skills provider to the UK grocery and manufacturing industry.

Nathan Simmonds:

And it's all about sharing ideas and concepts that are gonna help you be the best version of yourself, especially in a time of crisis like this. But also at the same, same time, future proofing you, your mindset, your development, and how we are gonna be working in this brave new world. Let's not kid ourselves. We are not gonna be working the same. When all of this comes to some sort of end, our lives will be completely different, there'll be more homeworkers. Um, the way that we focus on our work will be different.

Nathan Simmonds:

And we're gonna talk a bit about this today and how industry is gonna change. 'cause if it doesn't, there's gonna be some major challenges for businesses and corporations moving forward if they think they can go back to how they were working previously. Okay, before this situation, what are we gonna be covering today? Closing the door just in case we get a little visitor of a 7-year-old. So what are we gonna be covering today? We are gonna be covering deliverables.

Nathan Simmonds:

We've already covered the managing side of it, managing some of your focus, your routines, uh, certain elements here. We've talked about cabin fever through isolation and actually how some of us are already experiencing some of those symptoms. We talked a little bit yesterday about making sure that we're staying neat and looking at our wardrobe and seeing how we make sure we separate the right elements of our wardrobe, uh, and make sure that we're using that wardrobe wardrobe to focus our thinking and to create habits that are gonna help us move from one aspect of our life into another so that we don't blur it.

Nathan Simmonds:

So we're not wearing the relax, the relaxed clothes while we're doing work. And take on that physiology and psychology of that clothing into our, our our routines. Today's session is about deliverables. It's about actually what you are delivering and how you deliver that and how you have those conversations and make that happen. The first thing we're gonna cover today, and I wanna bring some clarity to this for you,

Nathan Simmonds:

Is one of the, the business staples and personal development staples, smart objectives. So guys, go crazy. Break it down. Tell me what smart means in the comments. What elements of, um, what are the, what does the S stand for? The m let's get those in the comments and get those moving first of all, and we'll see what's working, what's not working, and then how I can help you tweak and adjust that to actually get even more out of that model, that framework to help you focus even further. 'cause I guarantee some of you're using it in a way which is actually holding you back.

Nathan Simmonds:

And I want to change that right now today and, and make that really exceptional for you. So in the chat box in the questions, what does smart stand for? If you wanna do break it down one at a time. Go. Come on people. Let's see some fingers moving. I'm gonna get this up on the board. Can we see that just about still got a little bit of sunshine or we've got, we've got specific measurable, achievable, relevant, good time targeted, nice, realistic. We dropped in there as well. Good. Any more for any more

Nathan Simmonds:

Realistic? Good. Agreed. Nice. We've got some different elements. There are a few different perme uh, permeations of this, a kind of few different variants of the smart model and it's really important that we use the right elements of it at the right time. So when we are planning out our time, it's really important that we break these into two parts. The first thing is smart objectives. Yes, smart goals. No. So let's look at this. So the first part is about it being specific.

Nathan Simmonds:

Your goals and your objectives have to be specific. Yeah, they say vague goals lead to vague results. So you have to have absolute clarity on what you are working on and the elements that need to be adjusted, where you are going to this, um, who's involved, all these sorts of questions. And we're going to gonna share a link also in, in the chat box, there is an article on the MBM website all about smart objectives and we're gonna share that. So you've got that as a takeaway for today. The second one is measurable. Make sure my spelling's good.

Nathan Simmonds:

How will you know where you are in relation to the top of the mountain? This specific part is which mountain are you climbing? The measurable part is how do you know where you are in relation to the top of the mountain? How far have you got to go? Um, what elements are required? Or you know, what distance can be clear today that you know. So in the point of three days, four days, five days, you are on track to get to where you said you were going.

Nathan Simmonds:

These are the measurable elements and I'm gonna come back to um, some texts I've got here. Some interesting facts I've learned, um, over the last few months. It's what gets measured gets done. So if you can see, um, how you want to get fit, you wanna run a certain distance, okay, I want to get this fit, I want to be able to run this distance in this time, um, with this sort of recovery. And you put the specific details in there. Then the measurable part is how you're gonna clear that distance and how you're gonna make those improvements over time. The third part

Nathan Simmonds:

Is it achievable. So what have we got in here? We've got agreed as well. Achievable is the common one agreed on. Also, is it achievable? Can I do that? Is it structured in a way? Um, so that I can take bite-sized chunks out of this objective? Because if it isn't, you need to go back to the drawing board and at that point break it down a little bit further. Maybe put another step in that's gonna move you closer towards it. Um, and I'm not sure who the quote was.

Nathan Simmonds:

You know, one man's, um, stepping stone is another man's stumbling block.