These challenging times demand more from leaders at all levels to keep the business running and reaching its goals, but we must also notice and address the ways we ourselves are responding to the moment. While I knew that the past few weeks had been demanding, looking at my work habits cast things in a new light: I’ve been attending more than 55 meetings per week, spending more than seven hours per week in meetings outside of my preferred working hours, and had, on average, less than an hour per day of intentional focus time. And I’d be naïve to think that my way of working wouldn’t influence the work habits of others, too.
UNDERSTAND HOW TIME IS SPENT, AND THEN EXPERIMENT
Before we can adjust our work practices, we must start with understanding how the work gets done, and technology can help us with this. These personal insights–like time spent in meetings, focused work time, meetings outside working hours, and more–are embedded into our Webex platform and allow employees to understand how they are spending their most precious asset…
