Unplug to Re-Connect (session for PIs, managers and leaders)
23 May 2024, 13h30 - 17h00
General context
Unplugging for greater productivity, focus and job satisfaction!
Being always connected can have a major impact on both our concentration (during work) and the ability to mentally disconnect from work. That, in turn, impacts your concentration and productivity, and the negative spiral is set off. The consequences of always being on can weigh on our well-being as well as our productivity.
That is why during this training you will gain insight into your own disconnection profile and we will provide tools to deal with various forms of hyperconnectivity. You will go home with hands-on techniques to deal with the 3 forms of disconnection (digital, psychological and emotional) into practice. The program for employees and leaders largely overlap. Specifically for the leadership session, executives are given concrete tools for making team-level agreements around disconnecting.
After this workshop ...
- ... you know your connection profile and how it manifests itself in the workplace.
- ... you recognize your digital drains and gains.
- ... you can get rid of techno-stressors.
- ... you have insight into your current work-life balance and how you can optimize it.
- ... you can better manage expectations of yourself and others.
- ... set priorities and make conscious choices.
- ... you know how to create space for yourself and your environment.
- ... you can take measures for conscious and balanced connectivity.
- ... can respectfully set your boundaries and formulate needs.
- ... you can identify the disconnection styles in your team.
- ... you can discuss disconnection and work-life balance in your team.
- ... you can work with the communication matrix and meeting hygiene.
- ... you know where your role as manager begins and ends.
To promote transfer, we use "spaced learning" in which both before and after training several learning incentives are given through the learning platform. There is pre-work (intake and checklist 'My disconnection prolife') and post-work (buddy challenge, learning platform) and during the workshop there will be several cases discussed and there will be room for individual reflection exercises.
This session is specifically for VIB PIs and managers of others. There are 2 sessions for the other VIB staff organized in Ghent and Leuven.
Trainers
Katelijn Nijsmans - How's Work
Katelijn is a neuropsychologist and CEO of How's Work. For 15 years she has guided organizations in the search for workable work. She combines her scientific background with her experience in the business world to help organizations get everything out of work that they can. Furthermore, she is content coordinator of the postgraduate 'Mental well-being at work' at PXL hogeschool, co-author of the book 'De brein balans' and editor of the Dutch magazine for learning and development -TVOO.
Program
The program of this training is composed of 6 parts in which the transfer of what has been learned is always guaranteed.
Your connected brain
- Your brain in hyperconnection
- Exercise: Your 'connection' profile and its impact
- 3 forms of disconnection (digital, psychological and emotional)
Digital disconnection: The digital brain
- The neuroscience of Digital Wellbeing
- Exercise: mapping digital 'gains & drains
- Exercise: handles for digital comfort (example: Appendix A.2.)
- Digital Etiquette: the brain balance
Psychological Disconnection: The ON/OFF switch
- Why a digital detox works for zebras, but not for us
- Exercise: How to make the bridge
- Exercise 'Grip on time': about loose ends, priorities and goals
- The ON/OFF switch: unplugging techniques
Emotionally disconnecting: rumination can be (un)teached
- Why your brain sticks to your work
- From disconnection to connection-equilibrium
- Exercise: Work Related Thought Questionnaire
My role as an executive
- What role do I play as a leader in these 3 forms
- Exercise: Communication Matrix
- Exercise: Meeting hygiene
- Exercise: Making things negotiable
Personal action plan
- The disconnection framework©: your guide after today
- Exercise: Completing the disconnection framework©
- Exercise: How do I bring this to my supervisor/team?
- Post-work framework
Practical info
23 May 2024
Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg
Herestraat 49
3000 Leuven
Belgium
23 May 2024
Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg
Please use Parking West - Follow 'Dagcentrum Onco' to get to the O&N buildings. Take the stairs on you left after exiting Parking West. You are now in front of buidling O&N4 and on the left you find O&N5.
23 May 2024
Leuven - Campus Gasthuisberg
ON5, 8th floor, 404-28.08.184