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Humanizing and Prioritizing — Top 2 Work Lessons from the Pandemic
A common enemy is always a great unifier
My wife and I both work in the finance sector and have fairly hectic jobs. The other day my wife was working from home because our toddler son was sick, and I had come home for lunch after a rather busy morning at work.
We both sat there — eating some homemade food, with my son asleep with his head on my lap — still recovering from his fever. My wife told me how she’d taken a call with her manager while the little one sat in the same room playing with his toys.
The occasional noise and the minor distractions were OK.
I was logged in on a “virtual” conference session listening in to some experts earlier this week, and one of the speakers suddenly had some background noise. He was in San Francisco where it was 7 pm, and his kids were getting ready for dinner. A 6-year-old and an 8-year old running around the house don’t always know how to keep the volume down coz dad’s speaking at a conference.
But it was OK. The host of the session thanked him for his comments, both as a subject-matter expert, and a father!
I could highlight a number of such incidents that have happened to me, a colleague or a client over these past couple of years — and I…
