My top 5 ways to manage working from home.

1. Continue to curate personal relationships with your team.

Meet regularly to help maintain a sense of normalcy in these uncertain times. Be open to having appropriate non-work related conversation and build meaningful rapport. Use video and voice technology to help mitigate the noise in written communication—external, internal, semantic.

2. Occupy your time with things that will benefit overall mental/emotional state.

Carve out a dedicated personal physical space. Take time to work on something for yourself—finally get to that tutorial you’ve put off for professional development, try that recipe you’ve bookmarked, write that book you know the world needs.

3. Don't obsess about the news.

This is easier said than done, but you have some control over the outcome. Continue to do your part to flatten the curve by sheltering in place, practicing social distancing, washing your hands, and following CDC and local guidance.

4. Engage with the LinkedIn Learning catalog.

Tremendous resource with varying subjects to support remote working, time management, and other professional skills.

5. Be kind :)

Be intentional about your interactions with team members. We each manage stress differently in regular times… these are not normal times. 

As leaders, we need to be on the lookout for common stress cues:

• Mood swings (i.e., irritable, anxious, abnormally sensitive)

• Decrease in productivity

• Disengaged (i.e., less social and more secluded than usual)

• Fatigue (i.e., make more mistakes than usual)

Work with your leaders, department resources, and People partners to navigate any issues. 

 "In crisis times, it's actually not more difficult to motivate your staff because everyone gets much more focused on how they control their own economic destiny." 

Reid Hoffman

Stay safe, folks, Vince.