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Tips for developing positive tech habits

Tips for developing positive tech habits

From the course: Creating the Environment for Productive Virtual Teams

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Tips for developing positive tech habits

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- Virtual working typically means spending more time on digital interfaces on a computer. What's more? There are lots of digital temptations to distract you from work. And there's no one to keep you in check to minimize these temptations. How can you make sure you develop healthy tech habits in an age of virtual working? Let's start with the first challenge with today's technology, the vast reams and reams of information on offer. Although we have attentional filters that do a good job of selecting what infiltrates through to our brain, they have limitations. And it's all too easy to become cognitively overloaded. We all know what it feels like to be in this state. Overwhelmed, feeling mentally exhausted, hard to make decisions, irritable. I used to get it after trying to go to the supermarket with a toddler. So many things to be on high alert for. Your teams need to know that lots of data means that your brain will get exhausted. They need to be intentional about what information…

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