Bring your human to work

Noisy kids, cute pets (we can’t get enough of them), doorbells, unintentional cat filters, pristine backdrops, untidy backdrops, cd collections, full bookshelves, bold wallpaper choices. We are getting such a privileged insight into other peoples’ lifestyles through remote working and we are reminded that, despite our *clears throat* best attempts to remain professional, we are all human!

 

Seeing each other in our ‘natural habitats’ on video calls has been one of the better things to come out of lockdown. By now, many of us have given up with the pretence that everything is as serene as it would be in an office and allowed the shiny veneer to be replaced with a double helping of reality. Of being a human.

 

Last month, our PR trends post touched on some of ways in which we are showing more of our human side, and how humanising key spokespeople is making leaders more accessible. But there's more we can consciously do and start to embed in the ways we communicate and connect. Here are a few suggestions on how you can bring your human to work and help build credibility:

 

 

And when we do all eventually return to our places of work with full workforces and without social distancing, let’s not leave our human at home. Let’s build on the positives that have emerged from the last 12 months and make our human side continue to be part of what makes businesses great! After all, people do business with people they like and trust.