Supporting Your Team through Team Stress: 4 Steps
Under pressure, teams get stressed. Team leaders need to be able to spot the signs of stress and support your team through stress.
Watching this video is worth 2 Management Courses CPD Points*.
(See below for more details)
This video is part of course module number 4.3.4
Program 4: Managing & Leading Groups
Course 3: Teams
Section 4: Supporting Your Team
Other videos in this section include:
🎬 Supporting Your Team Under Pressure
🔗 https://youtu.be/FiVt4SmwlGQ
🎬 Supporting Your Team through Change – 6 Steps
🔗 https://youtu.be/6PJwjVsPNvc
🎬 Supporting Your Team through Conflict
🔗 https://youtu.be/NsdizR46Lmo
🎬 Supporting Your Team for Learning
🔗 https://youtu.be/FY3kYZ1ECnw
LESSON NOTES
When you recognize the signs of stress in your team…
What you need to do to counter team stress:
1. Understand the causes – likely to link to loss of control
2. Address root causes by restoring control or by focusing the team on what it can control
3. Deal with individual stress with compassion
4. Long term, build team resilience
RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
1. Assess your team, as it is today, for signs of stress. What evidence do you see? What is your level of concern? (2 MC CPD Points)
2. If you identify signs of stress, what are the likely causes? (2 MC CPD Points)
3. What can you do, to address the root causes of the team stress you identified? (2 MC CPD Points)
4. Who in your team needs your support? Determine how you are going to support them and schedule the first steps into your agenda. (2 MC CPD Points)
5. What can you do to build long-term team resilience within your team? Make a plan that you can execute over the coming weeks. (4 MC CPD Points)
DOWNLOADS
Free Resources
– CPD Tools – https://gum.co/MC-CPD
Paid resources
– Management Courses Onboarding Kit – https://gum.co/MC-ObK ($3)
RECOMMENDED READING
How to Manage Stress is the 2nd edition of my best-selling book (originally called Brilliant Stress Management): https://geni.us/AxTfrH
– The Five Dysfunctions of a Team https://geni.us/wbIE
– The Wisdom of Teams https://geni.us/7i1AL
– The Belbin Guide to Succeeding at Work https://geni.us/Kzc4GV4
– Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart https://geni.us/oAgEOdA
– Pulling Together: 10 Rules for High-Performance Teamwork https://geni.us/zUVV3G
– HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Teams https://geni.us/0DLsNe4
Managers need a basic set of kit to do your job well. Here are my top recommendations: https://kit.co/MikeClayton/manager-s-work-kit (the links are affiliated)
Management Courses Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points
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