1. TAKING CARE OF YOUR CLOTHING
Because an effective telework day begins with good preparation beforehand, establishing some basic rules and conditions will positively impact your productivity.
So even if you work from home, avoid comfortable indoor clothes and plan to dress properly without being ostentatious, just as if you were going to work outside.
This professional conditioning will promote optimal concentration and allow you to approach your workday more seriously.
2. CREATE AND DEVELOP YOUR WORKSPACE
A proper and well-thought-out workspace will help you organize your day in the best possible way and manage your daily tasks with more ease.
Plan to develop a real office practical and functional in a quiet room, bright, and thought-provoking environment with fingertips all the tools necessary you may recurrently need (computer, printer, scanner, documents, files ...).
Organize your workspace so that you can quickly find everything you need without wasting unnecessary time.
A determining element of your comfort, the armchair or chair that you install, must be reclining for the well-being of your back and adjustable to the height of your desk.
Also, to develop a climate conducive to work, take care of your office's decoration, this space where you will spend most of your day. A designer desk lamp, a pretty plant, will bring a warm touch to the place.
3. DEFINE A DAILY ACTION PLAN
First of all, define your professional schedule based on your usual working hours in a company.
You must then set daily goals for yourself, by drawing up a list, with on the one hand all the tasks (from the most urgent to the least important) that you will have to manage daily, and on the other hand, also in order of emergency, the one-off missions you will have to face.
Finally, make a weekly schedule with all the responsibilities that you will be required to accomplish on a day-to-day basis.
4. ORGANIZE YOUR TIME USE
Teleworking effectively means knowing how to organize your schedule so that your privacy and personal obligations do not encroach on your working time.
Of course, by finding yourself in a familiar environment, you risk being distracted, but for your professional activity at home to be as productive as if you were at the office, learn to divide your time to prioritize professional imperatives and know to distinguish between the essential and the secondary.
5. SCHEDULE REGULAR BREAKS
The intellectual activity cannot be productive without short but regular breaks throughout the day.
However, there is no need to leave your workspace to clear your mind. You can take a few steps around the room to stretch your legs, perform a few stretches to loosen your back and improve your posture or close your eyes for a few moments to let them rest from the bright computer light.
Far from being distracting, these short breaks will instead allow you to refocus more on your work and be more efficient afterward.
6. ESTABLISH CLEAR RULES AT HOME
Telecommuting does not rhyme with constraint. It is imperative to dissociate professional and private life and establish clear and strict rules at home, especially if you have children and families to manage.
For things to go as well as possible, take the time to explain to members of your family your activity, your working hours, and your need to work in peace and organize the care of the little ones so that you cannot under any circumstances be disturbed during the exercise of your professional activity.
7. KEEP IN TOUCH WITH COLLEAGUES
Communication is one of the essential foundations of successful teleworking. Therefore, teleworking does not, in any way, mean placing yourself in a situation of isolation.
Indeed, although you are in a context of physical distance from the company that employs you, you remain one of its employees. An invisible thread links your work's outcome or success to the team you are a part of.
Therefore, it is important to maintain close ties with the other team members to work collectively around a common project, share ideas, and find solutions to problems encountered together ...
The relationship with co-workers can be established through, for example, the organization of videoconferences or audio conferences on Skype, telephone calls, or via a more basic and impersonal mode of communication, such as the exchange of emails, simultaneous file-sharing, or other tools available online, which will facilitate your communication.
8. SET BOUNDARIES BETWEEN WORK AND LEISURE
Just because you work from home doesn't mean you have to make yourself available day and night for your business.
Learn to set limits for your colleagues and your superiors and enforce your working and leisure time. During your personal time, outside of your professional activity, do not feverishly check your emails dozens of times a day.
If there is an emergency, your contact will take care of calling you. Also, have the courage to refuse a non-emergency request that might arise out of your hours of work.
9. SPEND TO INCREASE YOUR PERFORMANCE
Whether you are a fan of running, a fan of swimming, or a fan of walking, a regular sporting activity is an excellent stimulant to boost your motivation, cope with a sustained intellectual effort, release tensions, reduce stress, increase your energy tenfold and increase your professional performance, as well as your productivity while teleworking.
Indeed, many research work and scientific studies have highlighted the multiple benefits of sport on the brain.
Move, run in the fresh air, wake up your muscles, tone your body ... Physical activity ensures the brain's oxygenation. It contributes considerably to its vascularization, promoting a multiplication of neurons and increasing the capacities of concentration, reflection, memorization, and assimilation.
10. CULTIVATING THE ART OF SERENITY
Stop stress! The secret of the happy teleworker lies in his ability to trust himself and to accomplish his work serenely.
Far from the city's hustle and bustle transport, and possible tensions in the office, you can finally concentrate only on your work without suffering the collateral consequences.
During your breaks, learn to relax and disconnect for a few moments from your surroundings. Take a deep breath, close your eyes, and meditate for a few minutes. Do some yoga or tai chi exercises. These moments of calm will restore your concentration and promote increased productivity.
Finally, take a few moments to think about how lucky you are. You choose where you work, how you work, who you work with ... So smile! Happiness is within your reach.
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