Sticky Learning Lunches #6: Get to Know Your Employees and How People Feel Whilst Working Remotely

Use these two simple methods to find out how people feel because happy employees are productive employees. Use your time working from home to become the very best version of yourself. This is a Virtual Classroom of 20-minutes, followed by a 10-minute Q&A.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon. I wanted to open up the window. We've got a couple of minutes before everyone's coming. I can see there's a few people already waiting, so I wanted to start this session off as quickly as possible. Get you in the room. Say good afternoon to you. See what's going on. Bear with me. Today's session is all about emotions. That's one of the key things we're gonna be looking at today. I

Nathan Simmonds:

'm just rejigging some of my windows so I can make sure I can see what's going on. So the first question for me right now, how is everybody feeling right now? So this could be week 2, 3, 4 of current situation of the coronavirus lockdown. Good morning. Uh, good afternoon Andy.

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Nathan Simmonds:

How are you currently feeling in this situation? You've got the chat box. Question box over here. Plug it in. Tell me how you're feeling right now. I wanna see what emotions are coming up. Gonna blow my nose. It's a bit clear here today. On a scale of three, then one being not so good, two in the middle, three feeling good on a three scale. How are we feeling? Three is a good. Two's in the middle. Got a couple of in the middle East. How else are the rest of us feeling? One, not so, three being absolutely. How are we? A few more people still coming into the room right now,

Nathan Simmonds:

Just getting a gauge of how we're feeling while the rest of the people go. Again, let's make sure we've got drinks handy and available. Herbal teas. We've got pen and paper ready. We're gonna dive into this very shortly. I wanted to let you know we are not gonna be running at this point in time, a session this Friday, Friday off for you guys. Everyone's thinking in different places. We are gonna be running the session tomorrow, again, one o'clock tomorrow, Thursday, last session for this week, which is gonna be around the, the technical, the technology side of what we're doing for work and at, at home.

Nathan Simmonds:

So welcome back. Absolutely. We're just getting into this. We're gonna share the link for tomorrow's session. If you haven't already registered for tomorrow's session, Sarah's gonna drop that link into the chat box. Click through there in a in a minute while we're doing this, and while you're listening and register for tomorrow's session, which is gonna be a bit more about technology for tomorrow to help you working from home.

Nathan Simmonds:

Ah, good. There's the link. Thank you very much. What are we covering today? We are covering emotions, how we are feeling, how other people are feeling, what are our emotions, how we are going to direct them and what we're gonna do with them. And some quick route to help us make the best use of them. Okay, Good. I think everybody's in,

Nathan Simmonds:

Let's bring this to life. Who right now is experiencing yes or nos in the, in the questions of chat box, who right now is experiencing some new emotions or, um, experiencing a higher level of emotion right now in this current situation? Yes. Or nos in the chat boxes? Who's experiencing more emotion right now? Yes. Yes. Coming through? Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Guys, let me be frank and honest with you.

Nathan Simmonds:

It was a loaded question. Okay. We are in isolation. We're in a lockdown situation. We talked a bit about this, um, last week about the isolation. These are some of the symptoms of cabin fever at a very kind of low level. So the emotions, we're starting to get a little bit more erratic. We're getting a bit more snappy.