Day 3: Healthy Practices

Colleagues,

Today’s email is an adaptation from my Leading from Home video series produced in the first days of the global shutdown in 2020. Although geared towards home, the suggestions are just as critical in our “normal” workspace.
 
Day 3: Healthy Practices
 
Today we will look at some healthy practices to enact while leading from home.
 
Accepting limitations means accepting that we can’t do everything. There are too many tasks, needs, and people that need attention. Understanding that everything won’t get done means that you choose what gets done today and what doesn’t. 
 
Being fully present is the single most powerful thing you can do to both improve your leadership and enhance your state of mind. Being fully present means that you are physically, mentally, and emotionally present to the person or task in front of you. 
 
Steps to being fully present:

• Create a clean break. 
• Eliminate distractions. 
• Engage fully with the person. 

 
Strengthening connections is imperative in a time of physical separation and isolation. Try these:

• Be vulnerable and ask for help. 
• Allow time for really seeing how people are doing at the front end of those video meetings. 
• Engage with a community beyond your own organization. 

 
There is a lot more in the video! You can watch it at my YouTube channel here or my website here.

Cheers!

​Frederick