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Taking a regular digital detox is an essential ingredient for our health and wellbeing, particularly in reducing the build-up of stress. However, it can be difficult to know where to start and to keep motivated for long enough to create more healthy digital habits.

Taking inspiration from the UK NHS ‘Couch to 5k’ app, the Digital Detox - 'Couch to 5k' is 9 weeks of digital detox challenges which are designed to take you from sitting on the couch with your smartphone to engaging and being fully present in your favourite offline activities. Each week’s challenge will build on the progress made in previous weeks.

The Digital Detox - ‘Couch to 5k’ is completely free and is designed to be aligned with participants personal human goals. Download here.

The pandemic has been a catalyst for a step-change in the speed and depth of the digital transformation of organizations. Having responded to the business continuity demands of remote and hybrid working for employees, this flexibility has now become the new norm. However, this new paradigm presents significant new challenges to traditional models of leadership and the role of management. The pandemic has also exposed the complexity and fragility of our global economic system creating much greater uncertainty and volatility across many business activities.

Add to this new Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) regulations; ‘digital native’ millennials and Gen Z now account for the majority of employees; the ‘great resignation’ of older workers; burnout; overqualified employee rates are increasing; and by 2025, the time spent on current tasks at work by humans and machines will be equal.

It has all the ingredients for a perfect storm.

In this article Ana Smith and Colin Corby offer 5 key insights to help you think differently.

Guidelines for Managers - To Drive Leadership, Productivity and Employee Wellbeing During Digital Transformation.

About the authors
These guidelines form part of a collaboration with Dr Anastasia Dedyukhina, founder of Consciously Digital, a global leader in the digital wellbeing programs, with a network of 100+ coaches around the world.
Stéphanie Former, Chantel Ménard, Ana Smith and Colin Corby are Digital Wellbeing Coaches from Consciously Digital and based in France, Spain, USA and the UK respectively.

The pandemic has dramitically changed and amplified the stresses of University life in the digital age. In this article published today, Technology Wellbeing's Glen Bowen provides an essential guide with valuable insights, personal experiences and top tips to help students and undergraduates achieve a healthier and more sustainable relationship with technology.