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How Great Managers Can Help Reduce Stress in the Workplace
Common Sources Of Work Stress
- Poor balance of personal and work lives
- Job insecurity
- Low salaries,
- Excessive workloads,
- Poor peer support,
- Limited prospects for growth or advancement and;
- The task at work that is not engaging or challenging.
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Be a Source Of Knowledge
A boss who’s focused on improving their managerial skills is the kind that workers will respect—and want to emulate. Stay abreast of management trends so you can continue to bring out the best in your team.
Work Together On Deadlines
Some managers accept or create unreasonable expectations on performance without checking in with their workers, thus causing stress.
A good manager should talk to their employees and ensure expectations are well thought out and feasible before being defined.
Stop Micromanaging
Some leaders get too deep in the details around how the actual work gets implemented, but implementation belongs to the employee.
Provide accessible and regular oversight for the work to be produced—but don’t micromanage our produce it yourself.
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Questions To Help You Delegate
- As a manager, what tasks am I doing that I was doing before my promotion?
- What tasks would I delegate to a member of an ideal team?
- What team members have the capacity to learn how to do these tasks?
- How can I pass my knowledge along to others to prepare them for these tasks?
Effects Of Stress In The Workplace
- Poor physical health
- Personal avoidance
- A decrease in information sharing
- Bad mouthing the company
- Quitting
- Excessive defensiveness
- Social conflicts
How To Decrease a Manager’s Stress
- Being vulnerable
- Delegating
- Having clear goals and evaluation parameters
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The Wallflower
Wallflowers are the individuals who prefer to be alone rather than in a group setting. Some wallflowers are hard workers, while others can get a little too comfortable in their quiet workspace and lose productivity.
For the most introverted workers in the office, providing a quiet, productive workspace will help raise their output.
The Achiever
Achievers are organized, reliable and consistent in their work performance. Achievers don’t need as much supervision as other work personalities.
They need opportunities for them to advance their goals, encouragement on their opinions during team meetings, and to be pushed with challenging roles and projects.
The Bum
Bums are the workers who initially started out as achievers but somehow fell into a slump.
They may socialize more than they work but tend not to cause any workplace problems due to their low impact.