Positive Approaches to creating Personal Space:

• being open with colleagues about your need, at times, for privacy and solitude
  
  
• identifying somewhere appropriate where you can create some personal space when you need to.
  
  
• booking meeting rooms for quiet work.
  
  
• making time to ‘go off’ somewhere else to think in isolation, even if only for a short while.
  
  
• recovering from stressful situations by creating a sort of retreat - but resisting the urge to make a dash for it mid-confrontation
  
  
• recognising team members’ needs for occasional solitude and enabling them to have it too
  
  
• using the space available to you, effectively, to create time to think and reflect
  
  
• ensuring that you have a good means of retreat in your home environment
  
  
• keeping weekends and evenings free from work
  
  
• working from home when possible.