Catherine Stothart – Essenwood Consulting

Support and Challenge in the Virtual World

Are you getting the right amount of support and challenge at work? How are you feeling? Bored? Stressed? Cosy? or Energised?

Trust

With many people still working from home, managers are having to work out how best to delegate in the virtual world – and how to trust that the work will be done.

Your Wheel of Life

Now that #lockdown is being gradually lifted, it’s worth reflecting on how we really want to spend our time before we rush back to the new normal….

How you interact with others can be a blocker or an enabler to working collaboratively with them. If you can’t build rapport with people different from you, you won’t get the benefits of their Rebel Ideas.

Give them CREDIT!

It’s inevitable that conflict will arise during the #forcedtogetherness and pressures of #socialisolation. But if we can give CREDIT to other people for their positive intentions, this goes a long way to defusing and dealing with misunderstandings and conflict

0 How to Collaborate

I call this the “give and take” of communication – Peter Senge calls it advocacy (how you make statements) and enquiry (how you ask questions).

0 What’s Your Conflict Style?

In my last blog I gave tips on how to defuse and deal with conflict. This week I am looking at the different ways individuals react to conflict. …

0 Defusing and Dealing with Conflict

In the last few weeks, I have blogged about the pressures of #forcedtogetherness for different personality types. But what about conflict? It’s inevitable that conflict will arise and when we are feeling anxious it’s even more likely to occur. …

0 Lockdown and Learning

With the government set to announce another three weeks of #lockdown today – and probably more to come after that – it’s a good time to review how we are doing, both personally and within our work and family lives.

How to help yourself through #lockdown

When we interact with others, we get stressed by different things. Last week’s tips were how to help your housemates cope with #forcedtogetherness. This week it’s about how you can help yourself to manage the stress of so much time at home – with or without others.

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