Paula Davis, the founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute, has a strategy for helping stressed employees feel less strain. She offers corporate leaders a solid, research-backed program for helping employees perform effectively. Worker burnout, tension, and disengagement are at peak levels, and conventional approaches are turning out to be insufficient. Enter Davis, with her proven strategies for reducing stress levels and boosting engagement. She gives leaders five mindsets, five insights, that they can use as actionable tools to communicate with and motivate their employees.
Leaders must ensure their employees’ well-being.
Leaders have multiple obligations to their employees. They must treat them with respect, show appreciation for their good work, and promote their well-being. They must also do everything possible to ensure they receive fair wages. Leaders need to remain aware of the work their employees do and how they do it. The Lead Well framework supports those imperatives.
In these times of unsettling upheaval and change, leaders must know the multiple societal factors that significantly affect all organizations. Pay attention to these quickly changing conditions.
- COVID-19 changed society’s shared perspective on jobs and lifestyles – The pandemic affected every person. Many became ill, and almost everyone experienced isolation and stress. Some began to search for new meaning in their lives. Many experienced a positive change, called “post-traumatic growth.” Such growth fosters a heightened appreciation for being alive, increased psychological strength and spirituality, improved relationships, and the recognition that life can offer new pathways.
- Uncertainty and instability are now the norm...
Paula Davis, JD, MAPP, is the founder and CEO of the Stress & Resilience Institute. She also wrote Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being & Resilience.
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