To help you build on your recent virtual training we have put together this page of useful materials and resources relating to maintaining productivity and wellbeing for home workers.
We hope they will be of use to you.
Do get in touch if you have any questions.
Kate Jennings
Lead Trainer, Cambridge Exec.
kate@cambridgexec.co.uk
Primary research on wellbeing and home working
A detailed set of initial results from a recent project by the Institute of Employment Studies:
Homeworker wellbeing report
A report on how Microsoft’s employees have responded to the switch to remote working:
Microsoft analytics report
Free emotional intelligence assessments
The Global Leadership Foundation EI test involves 40 forced choice questions and provides feedback across four domains of EI: Self-awareness, self-management, social-awareness and relationship management.
Emotional Intelligence Test – Results (globalleadershipfoundation.com)
IRDLabs EQ test includes 28 likert scale questions and provides feedback across four domains: Sociability, self-control, empathy and wellbeing. It also provides an overall ‘EQ’ score.
Recommended books
The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future by Julia Hobsbawm
The Virtual Workspace: 50 Tips for Effective Video Conferencing Kindle Edition by Andrew King
Dare to Lead by Brene Brown
Useful articles
How unintended and unconscious effects of your leadership style could be getting in the way of building team engagement:
“The Shadow of Leadership”
Why virtual meetings can be so draining – and what you can do to overcome this fatigue:
“Virtual Meeting Fatigue”
Insights from Daniel Goleman on developing resilience:
“Resilience for the rest of us”
We love the title of this article – and it make such good sense!:
“Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure”
“Five ways to boost your resilience at work”
An excellent article from Harvard Business Review:
“Manage your energy, not your time”
BBC article about the future of the office and home working in the light of the Coronavirus outbreak:
“Coronavirus: What’s the future for the office?”
A range of articles on home working from Harvard Business Review, from the perspective of workers and managers:
“Working remotely – how to make it work”
“A guide to managing your (newly) remote workersCould “
“How to manage an employee who’s struggling to perform remotely”
Audio material
Video recaps
Videos, talks and clips
Brene Brown on the relationship between vulnerability and resilience
Daniel Pink on motivation
Bill Benjamin on the ‘amygdala hijack’
Daniel Goleman Introduces Emotional Intelligence
Strategies to become more emotional intelligent