It is impossible to completely remove stress from the business environment, but a little stress can be helpful. The key is to create an environment that will help employees stay productive, even under difficult circumstances and that is one of the most important things you can do as a leader.
Stress reduction begins with the company culture. Research has shown that working in an environment whit leaders who support their employees is the most powerful indicator of reduced stress. When stress infiltrates in your culture, it can come to a lack of motivation and even the easiest tasks can become a challenge.
1. Train your team on how to manage working hours properly
You can organize or initiate training that shows how to properly manage working hours. You will probably want to look for the help of experts who will properly direct you unless you consider yourself sufficiently qualified for such a venture.
It is important to help your team estimate their ability to manage working time by asking them to singly keep a record of the time spent on individual tasks
Introduce them to applications that serve the proper organization. Consider investing in software that will track the time spent on individual tasks, to get a reference impression od their productivity.
2. Get actively involved in the work
Your team members succeed when they incessantly learn. As a leader, try to spend as much time as possible helping your team as they learn, progress, and follow your example.
A great way to do this is to delegate selected tasks whenever it is possible. Just make sure you have time so they can do quality training and check their progress.
3. Provide time for rest
Your team members will lose motivation if they are overworked because everyone needs time for themselves, away from work, to recharge their batteries and regain perhaps lost motivation.
It is important to encourage your employees to take time off, and this starts with you and applies to you. You should be a role model and example of healthy behavior and balancing between business and private.
Also pay attention to the workload to make employees feel comfortable and leisurely. Brain rest is a kind of overhaul from which both parties, the employer and the employee, profit in the long run.
4. Provide a comfortable workplace
Each of us wants to work in a pleasant atmosphere that encourages us to make business and personal progress. Do your best for the maximum extent control conditions in the workplace, respectively react properly if you notice that these conditions are violated
5. Don't punish mistakes
Properly determine the distinction between sincere, human error, and negligence to be eradicated. If you judge that the mistake is justified by other factors, encourage people to try again to fell security and confidence that will give them the incentive for new challenges.
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