Tips for Working from Home

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Tips For Working At Home
Bursting Silver
A Covid-19 Survival Guide
03/19/20

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◇ High Growth : 0 to 70 people in 7 years
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◇ Staff located across Canada and the US – all can work from home with drop-in offices in Toronto and Calgary
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corporate social responsibility.
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Establish a Morning Routine
Shower
Get a coffee and spend 5
minutes planning your
day
Start early if you can
Work-out, but
wake-up
early to do it.
Get Dressed
Create a to do list

Establish Your Dedicated Workspace
Do not work in the bedroom, that is for
sleeping and relaxing.
Find a space that is not the
living room or kitchen.
Set rules with people working in your space.

Enhancing Your Dedicated Workspace
Try an essential oil diffuser
to help you relax
or energize!
Click to add textGet a good chair.
Play some background
music, or even
better, match your music to
your task, reach out
to teammates to see
what they are listening
to, coordinate a Spotify
playlist.
Get a desk that is the right
height – standing desk.
Implement a mechanism to
indicate
you can’t be bothered (if you
have small children,
utilize realistic time frames –
Mummy/Daddy needs
one hour)

Invest in Solid Hardware Technology
Don't just work from a laptop
Ergonomic Mouse
Full Keyboard
Large Monitor
Webcam
Great Pair of Noise-Cancelling
Headphones

Evolve 75E

The Mute Button is Your Friend

Productivity Techniques
If you are working on a deliverable or a
key task, turn off email, messaging
notifications
Discover your high productivity hours
and structure calls – morning
productivity and afternoon calls and
vice-versa.
Ruthlessly set time limits to get tasks
done
If you need to do laundry use it as a timer!
Get a white board
Establish a to-do list
Structure between tactical
and strategic

Software is Also Your Friend
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Self-Care

Look After Yourself!
Go For a walk or a run
Ease up on snacking
Do a quick workout

Communication
If a conversation is taking more that 3-4
back and forth messages, pick up the
phone
Be responsive but not necessarily immediate
as that can be distracting
TALK to your colleagues,
don’t be an email or Slack only hermit
Schedule time for your responses to
accommodate your tasks and assignments
Schedule a time for your responses to
accommodate your tasks and assignments

Conference Calls
Use your cell, better receptions than IP
based connections
Noise cancelling headphones and the mute
button are your friend
Get the Fastest Internet You Can Get
Stand-up, walk around, and if you can,
get outside on a balcony or deck
Resist the urge to do household tasks,
But if you must, insure it is quiet

Avoid These Distractions:
Don’t use the “I work from home” to make
appointments in the middle of the day
Do your meal prep the day before,
lunches and dinners
Get out of the house
Don’t do chores
Don’t have friends ”stop by”
Stay off social media

Establish a Daily Schedule
Time Blocking Home and Business Tasks
Give your kids and pets
some attention
Quick breaks for coffee
and fresh air
Stretch
Eat a good lunchBlock your schedule
Take care of yourself

At The End of The Day

End of Day Routine
Sign-Out Log-Off
Shut the door
behind you.
Turn-Off
notifications

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