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Can you make out what this slide says? 🧐 It’s a chart of the “Organizational Factors Effecting Workplace Stress” The top two factors: 1. Inadequete Staffing 2. Poor Communication As employers we can become tunnel focused on the stress and frustration resulting from not being able to find sufficient staff, but it’s easy to forget what it’s like to be a member of a team faced with an unrealistic workload because the company has an insufficient staff level. Staffing issues are a double edged sword. They wear on employers and existing staff. Stressed out, overworked managers have a much higher likelihood of being poor communicators. Anytime we try to push the edge a bit too far on management bandwidth and capacity we risk corroding our employment experience with poor communication. I’ve learned to think of stress in the workplace to be like rust, rusting out a Work Force from the inside out. In our most recent book, Winning with Workers, we talk about eight principles. Principle Eight is: “Create a Net-Zero Stress Workplace” The idea here is not live in a world of denying that stress is an all common part of getting the job done, it’s rather accepting the stress occurs in finding proactive and reactive ways to address staff stress levels. What are the ways that you work to eliminate stress in your employment experience to ensure you don’t rust out your workforce?
At EverLine we strive to be a place where our employees can grow both in their professional and personal lives. So this session “Winning with Workers” with Leighton T Healey was definitely a highlight for us. Looking forward to examining and refining our people processes.
