More than three -quarters of the employees face professional exhaustion. Less than a quarter of employees firmly believe that their employer cares about their mental health. And 47% of employees believe that the majority of their stress comes only from the workplace, according to the American Institute of Stress.
For David KO, CEO of Calm, a meditation and well-being platform based on the subscription, the management of stress at work is not only at the top of the brand's mind, but also for itself as a leader. “I am very humiliated to work in this company. I am also quite stressed by working in this company because every second of every day, someone uses our product, ”he says Fortune.
Managers, he says, can do a better work of stress management at work if they stop making this major mistake.
“The first thing I saw that leading to stress at work is the management of the workload,” he says.
When someone juggles too much, errors are more likely to happen. In addition, their time management, their productivity and their stress can all be turned.
“As leaders, we do not do a very good work of understanding [employees’] The whole workload, “says Ko.” You can tell someone: “It's really important. This must be done in the next 48 hours. But as a leader, do you take the time to understand all the other priorities on which they can work? »»
Managers must do a better job to assess the charge, he said, asking what other priorities have been added to their plate and pivoting accordingly.
“What are you going to take?” Ko says. “I often ask the leaders today, if you want to give someone something to do, take the time to go and say, perhaps, however, that the seventh, eighth, ninth priority, who can wait?”
Managers should also ensure that their teams include reasons for a change in priority or why a new task favors others. “We assume that most employees understand why we give them more work to do, but too often, we do not explain why,” explains KO.
Make the employees feel part of the conversation on what they think they can accomplish in a given time, adds Ko. “It is a double-meaning dialogue, not a one-way dialogue,” he says.
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This story was initially presented on Fortune.com
