Sticky Learning Lunch #31: Feel Like Your Constantly Stuck in the Office?

When working from Home I Feel like I am Always Stuck in the Office. Discover ways to separate home & work, and be much happier in both.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon. Sticky learning lunches. Just waiting for the last couple of people to arrive. Looking forward to doing this session today. Good afternoon. Just waiting for people to get in. Good afternoon, Claire. Good to see you. Colin. Great to see you again. Thanks for being here. Fabian, wonderful to see you again, Gareth, splendid. Laura and Tim, thanks for being here. Just what given to give it 30 seconds as always, just as I'm having a mouthful of tea, before we dive into this, make sure we've got our phones up. Let's make sure our phones are on flight mode. Cancel out the distractions. Give yourselves a hundred percent attention right now. Let's see. Just gonna give it 30 seconds.

Nathan Simmonds:

Question for those that were already here. What is, we've been in lockdown for, what? 11 weeks, 12 weeks now? It feels like a long time. Maybe. Maybe I'm exaggerating that. Firstly, how long have you been in lockdown for? And secondly, what's the strangest randomest thing that you've actually, you know, learned to do or, or put your time into doing While you've had all this extra time, let me know in the questions box or the chat box, how long have you been in lockdown for?

Nathan Simmonds:

What's the strangest thing that you, or the newest thing that you've been learning to do since you had the all this extra time to play with. Just as we're waiting for the people to arrive. And let me know in the questions box and I'll share with you my new project in just a moment. Completely unwork related, sort of good last few people just arriving. Focus on them, the colleagues, always focusing on them.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Alright, pens in pockets ready to go. Welcome to today's Sticky Learning Lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM Making Business Matter. Excited to be here again. Been doing this for six weeks. I think I've worked out earlier, just over six weeks now. We've been delivering these lunchtime, learning these micro learnings to give you ideas that's gonna help you be the best version of you in what you do right now and prepare you for the return to work, whatever that might look like over the coming weeks and days and weeks.

Nathan Simmonds:

Welcome to this sticky lunch. So for those that don't know or maybe new to making business matter, MBM is the home of sticky learning. We are the leadership development and soft skills provided to the grocery and manufacturing industry. And I just wanna share some core ideas just to help you push your concepts in thinking forward. One of the most valuable things that we do at MBM is we make learning stick. And what does that mean for HR professionals and, and l and d professionals and leaders out there?

Nathan Simmonds:

Is the way that we deliver our training. Makes sure that the training and the learning is embedded and stays there and is getting used. Too many training providers go in one day, deliver a piece of content and then exit. And then maybe they do kind of their, their evaluation sheets or maybe they have a bit of a conversation a couple of months time, but they don't go back and revisit or address or support or tweak and adjust that content as those learning experiences start to adapt and evolve in the live environment.

Nathan Simmonds:

So, making business matter, the way that we structure our learning and development is all about making sure that these new skills, these new ideas and these new concepts stay in, get used and create results. One, one of these, you know, the elements of, of what we are doing here, right at the beginning of this situation in lockdown,