Sticky Learning Lunches #1: How to Be More Productive Whilst Working From Home

Find out how to manage yourself better with 'M' - The first of 7 best practices from the M.I.N.D.S.E.T model for working remotely and how to be more productive whilst working from home.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Amazing. So we're just, we're a couple of minutes early, we're just seeing who's arriving. Let's make sure we're setting ourselves up for success. Give this a few minutes just while other people are starting to come in. This is the first day back from the Easter weekend. I definitely feel like it's the first day back at school. Good to see you guys coming in. Like, as I've said before, let's make sure we've got drinks available. Let's make sure we've got clean notepads and pens before we dive into this.

Nathan Simmonds:

Gonna make sure I've got some pens in the pockets. Colin, great to see you again. Andy. Thanks for being here. Few of the last people coming in. 30 more seconds. I'm watching the clock. 30 more seconds and then we're gonna dive into this and cover some key things around your workspace, especially when you're working from home. There's gonna be some key points here that you may not be thinking about.

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Nathan Simmonds:

There's gonna be some things that you know you might be thinking about and we're gonna try and tweak those and, and make them a little bit more, um, a little bit more clear for you and take 'em off another level to really support you, that you are getting the best out, the spaces that you are working in, right? I said drinks, pens, and papers. We will do questions through this. First of all, first question, while we're waiting for any last couple of people to join in, did everyone have a good Easter?

Nathan Simmonds:

Yes. We've got some yeses coming in. My question box is not working very well. Bear with me. Real thanks. Yeah, no, thanks for asking. So I appreciate it. I had a glorious one. The weather here was phenomenal. We're down in Hastings and it was beautiful for some reason. I have, I can only see one question. It's doing weird things on my question box. So I may have some challenges with that later, but we'll work that out later.

Nathan Simmonds:

Yeah, so I spent the, uh, a couple of days on the vegetable patch, growing vegetables and, and tidying things up, right? We're all here. I think this is good to go. We're gonna go in, gonna share some ideas. Welcome all. This is the Sticky Learning Lunches from Nathan Simmons here at MBM Making Business Matter. We are the home, well we are the leadership, uh, and soft skills providers to the UK grocery and manufacturing industry.

Nathan Simmonds:

And right now, while we're in this lockdown situation and we're working from home in these changing dynamics in this brave new world we're in, we're gonna be sharing 20 minutes of learning with you every single workday, uh, for as long as you guys need it. And sharing some core concepts and leadership skills that are gonna help you to be the best possible version of yourself while you can be while you are working in these new spaces.

Nathan Simmonds:

Bear with me just trying to find, fix some final elements of my question boxes. 'cause it is not playing the game. Right guys, let's do this. I'm gonna come off the screen share. So you've just got, uh, the background of me

Nathan Simmonds:

And dive into this. Come on, play the game, right? We're good. We're live, we're in. So today what we're gonna do is we're gonna continue to focus on the mindset model. Last week we already picked up on, um, managing some of our routines and our, and certain elements of our working from home. We also talked about isolation. The, the symptoms of cabin fever. We talked about work wear, how to make sure you are dressing for where you are mentally and physically. And also talks about deliverables.

Nathan Simmonds: