Working from home is both a blessing and a curse. While it has eliminated commutes and travel for many, it has also led to longer workdays, more work on weekends, and a blurring of personal and professional time and space.
In this salon, we discussed…
How to set boundaries when your work space and home space are the same.
Try to have a consistent work space that is your own. If there is a door, use it!
Read "One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey" - a MUST for managers and business owners.
When working at home, there's no off-switch. Find ways to take breaks/escape.
The physical, emotional, and spiritual ways to combat stress and “Zoom fatigue.”
Brain breaks throughout the day: Get out and move, but stand up from your desk!
Try walking each day. Fractals are good for the brain - look at trees!
Leverage collaborative tech tools: ThinkHub, Otter.ai, and reverse whiteboards are great examples.
Better meeting management: block time to meet and time to work.
Identify what needs to be a "zoom" vs. what should be a conference call.
How large and small businesses are supporting employees’ mental health.
As a manager/business owner, focus on EQ. Identify where your team is, both mentally and physically. Provide opportunities for 1:1 connections.
Providing meditation resources.
Providing mental health webinars for employees. (So many people share!)
Champion Guest Moderator:
Jenny Niederhoffer is a commercial and non-profit producer and philanthropist. She is a Co-Producer of the Broadway show Be More Chill and the upcoming Broadway show Lempicka. Previously, Jenny produced The Flying Karamazov Brothers 4Play at the Minetta Lane Theater and the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England. She chairs the Off-Broadway theatre company, Transport Group which is the recipient of multiple OBIE, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Dramatist Guild awards as well as a special citation by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle.
Jenny curates a reading/development series which has included Miracolo by Jarlath Barsanti-Jacobs and Emilio Solla, One Good Day by Liz Suggs and Rona Siddiqui, Red Rum by Joe Lovero and Jon Hugo Ungar, Huzzah! by Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe, The Bad Years by Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk, A Walk With Mr. Heifetz by James Inverne, and Death House Jamboree by Michael Panes.