Sticky Learning Lunches #24: Having a Mental Health Conversation Bothers Me

Use this 4-part model of M.I.N.D to have an effective mental health conversation. This is especially important when working from home.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon. Welcome to Steady Learning Lunches with me, Nathan Simmons. It is Thursday. We're just waiting for the last few people to join the room. Just gonna keep an eye on them as they're coming in. Give it 30 more seconds just to make sure we're all here. Good afternoon everyone. Vicki, great to see you. Tracy, Samantha, good to see you again. Carolina, Jason, Gabrielle, Darren, Colin, you know what?

Nathan Simmonds:

There's a whole crowd of regulars in here and I'm really liking this. Get more and more people coming into these sessions and staying in these sessions, which is lovely. Good to see you too. Hello. Hello. You can say hello by the way, if you want to type hello and say hello to me. It is allowed. I like the engagement. I like to know that you are there and paying attention and all that. What are we covering today? Let's get into this.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Just as last few people turn out. Let's say make sure that everyone we're setting everyone up for success as we're doing this. As always, first things first, mobile phones. Let's make sure they're all on flight mode so we're not getting distracted. A hundred percent attention on you and what you are learning. Second thing is making sure you've got a drink hydrated, ready to go, and also making sure that you've got a fresh page in the pad ready to go as well.

Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon, Tracy. Clean sheet. At the top of the page you're gonna write keepers and these are the things you want to keep hold of. These are the things you wanna remember that you, when you go back and read those notes, it's gonna remind you and reinvigorate that thinking and come up with new ideas to keep the learning going and keep it sticky.

Nathan Simmonds:

Okay, let's go in and other people can arrive as we get into this. Welcome everyone to today's Sticky Learning Lunch with me. Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer at MBM, making Business Matter, home of Sticky Learning. We are the provider of leadership development and soft skills to the grocery and manufacturing industry. I do with these lunches help you be the best version of you right now from where you are working from home and preparing to return to work in the near future. Let's dive into this. Today we're gonna be covering the D in the mind model

Nathan Simmonds:

Before we even get into it, how is everyone feeling? We've hit Thursday, we've covered some core co. We've covered some, you know, pretty, um, pinpoint content this week. How are we feeling at the moment about working from home Isolation? I wish it was another four day week, Vicki, that could be arranged if you want. How is everyone feeling? I must say great today has a bit of cabin fever by Monday and Tuesday. Absolutely, but now it's great. Nice poor start, but recovering well. So good just about now. Nice, Colin. Good. Took an hour out to tie the garage and needed some variety.

Nathan Simmonds:

Sometimes we need to do this and quite frankly, Tracy, I cannot show you the state of my office right now. It has been a very creative week talking to a lot of people and my variety is gonna be later on today actually just clearing down my office and getting it back to some sort of normal good. Mental health is all about conversations. It's all about having the different conversations and just checking in with each other and checking in with ourselves and seeing how we feel and what we need quick flash through. Then Monday, the m is all about mindset, yours and theirs.

Nathan Simmonds:

The I is all about importance. Where are you putting it? Where is the focus and the importance of making sure that mind the mindset is the nu...