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New Practice November #1: Instead of taking a meeting from your normal desk, take it elsewhere!

Christine P. Dela Rosa

Week 1 challenge: week of Oct 31

Instead of taking a meeting from your normal desk, take it elsewhere!

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Try taking a walk outside while listening to a meeting or webinar.
- Maybe even take a walk with the person you're meeting with.
- Maybe even take a walk with someone you don't work with while listening to a meeting.
Try doing household chores with your meeting in your headphones.
Try moving your office set up.
- Maybe work from the office if normally from home or vice versa.
- Maybe work from a table in a different room than the one you normally work in.
- Maybe turn your monitor so that you're facing a different direction than normal.

After doing this at least once or twice this week, let us know in the comments how you felt after working that way this week.

Thanks to @Daniel Eads for the suggestion.

About New Practice November 2022:

Each week during November, we prompted this group to adopt a work behavior for that week. At the end of the challenge week, we shared our reflections in the post's comments.

Even though the prompts for the month are over, feel free to continue sharing your reflections as this discussion will be available well after New Practice November 2022. Thanks to all who have and will participate!

Comments

Marta Woźniak-Semeniuk_m044pw

Working from home I already have this thing when at least once a week I have one of my less formal calls from my couch - with my cats showing up too It always makes whoever I speak to smile and I love it In the summer I sometimes also go to the balcony and show my city panorama behind me (I live quite high)

Christine P. Dela Rosa

Honestly, I'd love to see that if I were in a meeting with you lol. Feel free to drop screen grabs

Tinker Fadoua - [Seibert US]

Well believe me guys I tried couple times from other spots. Either while driving, walking, or a different room inside my place. It was a total failure. I am one of those people who go crazy if they miss something during an important meeting. While driving or walking many times I either lose the signal or I can not focus 100% as something else caught my attention. Trying a different spot in the house has been an option, however I still prefer the comfort of my desk. It is so frustrating to be presenting when one of my kids jump to ask a random question 😡. To them since mommy is not at her desk she must be having fun since she is sitting in a different room.

All the best,

Fadoua

Christine P. Dela Rosa

I really like that this post shows an attempt at different spots that didn't work out. Because experiments shouldn't work 100% of the time.

And @Tinker Fadoua if you don't find a new spot to work, that's okay, too! This was more to see if a change of environment would be helpful from time to time. So if it's not, then you have your answer

...though continuing experimental spots is also welcome

Opher Lichter_rvv91i

Besides home and the office, I've taken meetings in the car (mostly out of convenience), at the local Starbucks, and occasionally in my backyard or even a local park - those last two made for a welcome change of scenery and helped me to better focus my thoughts before and after the call!

Christine P. Dela Rosa

Yes! Double use of something already in your life and a change of environment for a change in mindset. Thanks for sharing

Floris van Himbergen

Due to the common work space at the office I often move to a different room for meetings. While this space does not have monitors I can plug my laptop into, it still feels nice to change things up and get myself into a "meeting mindset". As a bonus, I might encounter colleagues on the way there and exchange a smile, greeting or short conversation!

Christine P. Dela Rosa

Rad!

Luis Machado_rllvhc

I tend to take client calls in my office, there's something about standing and having enough monitors to see everything that gives me some confidence/calm. But I have totatlly been taking internal meetings/calls outside on the patio, especially when the weather's nice.

Christine P. Dela Rosa

There are backgrounds on your monitors/screens and then there are backgrounds in real life. Love that you have variety on both

Ronald Hipol

Since the work-from-home set up started, I have been watching Jira tutorial videos while doing the dishes. :-D

Christine P. Dela Rosa

Well that's safe multitasking I can get behind!

Amélie Duplany

So funny, I will try after Holidays with my colleagues
Thank you for your idea !

Graham Twine

This is worth trying. I am remote and always use the opportunity to walk around the garden. It also just gets me moving

Tommy Augustine_u4x60v

I am fortunate that my company has hammocks and treadmills to take my laptop to for meetings!

Courtney - TechTime

Our office is right by the beach so sometimes in catch up we walk by the water and it's so lovely! It's also so good to make sure you get time outside rather than always being glued to the screen.

Omar Mohamed Fathi

looks fun

Dan Breyen

Any chance to break up the monotony of the meeting can be very productive.

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