Resilience resources: a crowd-sourced collection of ideas, information and resources to help you navigate challenging times.
Supporting your team
- Strengthening resilience for better leadership: the importance of maintaining your self-control, tapping into support, and acting on feedback [Thrive Global]
- Five mindfulness and emotional intelligence practices for difficult times: how exercising empathy, kindness and compassion can help in stressful times [Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute]
- Want to improve team resilience? Strengthen relationships: encouraging social connections with work colleagues will improve your team’s resilience. Here are some suggestions on how to ensure your colleagues get to know each other [Thrive Global]
- 10 habits of resilient teams that start with you: whether you are a leader or team member, you can shape your work environment for better communication, productivity, and collaboration [Thrive Global]
- How to build your resilience: you can build and maintain your resilience by incorporating these five resilience factors into your life [Thrive Global]
- Build resilience with meditation: like most other mental skills, resilience can actually be deliberately cultivated and developed. Here’s how… [Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute]
- Reducing stigma: everyone can help stop stigma related to COVID-19 by knowing the facts and sharing them with others in your community [CDC]
Working remotely
- A Manager’s Guide to Supporting Remote Teams: this guide shows you how to lead with vision, confidence, and humanity and support parents and caregivers in times of crisis and change [Kunik]
- Ultimate remote work guide: a list of the biggest remote work pitfalls to avoid and simple hacks to overcome each challenge [LifeLabs Learning]
- Understanding remote work [Envato]
- Supporting working parents: COVID-19 is stressful. Supporting working parents shouldn’t be. A guide on best practices and creatives ideas to build a culture of empathy and support [Kunik]
- 5 Tips to stay connected with practicing social distancing during COVID-19: learn how to keep employees engaged and help them maintain social connections while working remotely [Virgin Pulse]
- Crushing loneliness through virtual connection: there are currently two epidemics. One is the coronavirus. The other is loneliness [Peoplestorming]
- 11 high-impact questions managers should ask remote employees: the questions that you should be using to create better dynamics with your remote employees, faster [LifeLabs Learning]
- Going remote overnight, preparing for the coronavirus: if you don’t already have some form of remote/flexible work policy, now’s the time to draft one [NOBL]
Health information
- Coronavirus toolkit: PDF guides, posters and health information for quick and easy distribution [Virgin Pulse]
- A science-backed approach to coronavirus: this is what the science says about Coronavirus and how to prepare accordingly [Virgin Pulse]
- Care for your coronavirus anxiety: resources for anxiety and your mental health in a global climate of uncertainty [Shine]
- Flatten the curve: why a good plan now is better than a perfect one later [Flatten the curve]
- Coronavirus: why you must act now: what should you do and when [Tomas Pueyo]
- Staying home club: a list of companies working from home or events changed due to COVID-19 [Open Sourced]
Crowd-sourced ideas
- Suddenly remote workforce: crowd-sourced list of resources, articles, tools to help you think about WFH practices and policies – and how to care for your employees in an empathetic manner [Kunik]
- Coronavirus HR comms & resources guide: crowd-sourced list of public Coronavirus/COVID-19 company policies, updates, conference & school closures, and resources
These are great too
- Tech companies providing free remote-working tools during coronavirus outbreak: as many companies ask employees to stay home, these five are making their services available to others
- Relieving stress: a 4 minute on demand meditation to relieve stress when you need it the most [Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute]
- Focusing attention when overwhelmed: a 9-minute mindfulness practice to calm a busy mind [Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute]
- Anxiety busting hacks: five simple tactics to try to reduce anxiety [LifeLabs Learning]
- Support for hourly and in-person workers: health, safety, job security and questions to discuss with your exec team [LifeLabs Learning]
- How to be an ally in times of xenophobia: 3 steps individuals and companies can take right away to reduce bias and to practice allyship [LifeLabs Learning]
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