The Power of Habits training is based on the New York bestselling author, Charles Duhigg’s book of the same name, “The Power of Habits”. During the Covid lockdown I completed the Power of Habits training course and learned how habits work and how to unlock the power to change them. The training taught me the skills to identify and create the habits needed for success within your organisation. The course focused on the science of habit formation and helped us to learn how to recognise when they need to change, what behaviours they ought to change, and how to make the desired behaviours stick. It sounds simple but in practise it’s much more difficult, for example,
a) Identify the habits,
b) Use skill instead of will, to replace limiting habits with effective ones, and
c) Create new routines that produce desired outcomes.
Who is Responsible for Your Return to Work Strategy?
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The most successful global leaders in fighting coronavirus have communicated clearly, displayed empathy and always favored science over politics. When challenges arise we don't rise to the occasion, we sink to the level of our training. We have to recognize that things are not going to back to what they were before the coronavirus. The pre-COVID world was all about performance, agility and efficiency, the post-COVID world will be all about one thing - survival. Does your organisation have a plan for how we get people back to work? Are you ready to tackle the challenges ahead?
Health and safety of the workforce should be management’s top priority and managing employee numbers will be critical to protecting workplace health, as the higher the number the higher the risk. Have you thought about the benefits of a staggered reintroduction, e.g. rotating who works from the office and who works at home?
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Once open, how can you keep your employees safe? There will be more questions than answers, for example:
- What will be the new physical setup?
- How much distance should there be between desks?
- Have you made restrictions on your office building capacity?
- What about employee gatherings around the coffee machine?
- What about the cafeteria and lunchtime procedures?
- Have you developed new office sanitization protocols?
- Will there be guidelines for wearing personal protective equipment, e.g. face masks and/or gloves?
- What are the rules for checking employees who are returning to work after illness?
- Will your employees need help to manage this mindset change?
- How will you deal with employees who are reluctant to return to the office?
- Do you have a Crisis Management team to deal with ethics and compliance complaints?
Would you like to have a training plan for implementing new operational procedures, processes and policies during your “back to workplace” transition and beyond?
Contact us on sb@peakbalance.dk to hear more on how we can help your organisation.
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