My People Are Stressed & Mentally Exhausted

A couple of weeks ago DEVELOR started a communication campaign related to leadership across its network. By the campaign, DEVELOR wants to draw attention to some important leadership challenges that leaders face nowadays, and help its clients to handle them more successfully.

A fictitious person – The Time Travelling Leader named Tom – guides the people, who join the activity, through the typical challenges of 2021 leadership. If you or your colleagues would like to join this adventurous learning initiative, all you need to do is to leave your e-mail at the Time Traveller’s site here.

The First Challenge Deals With Exhausted Teams

In his first challenge, you have the chance to get to know Time Traveller’s team. He describes how his team is overloaded and exhausted and what symptoms he has observed during the past months, that he needs you to analyse.

Good Diagnostics, Resilience Support and Well Established Working Routines

After reading the case study of the Time Travelling Leader, we have identified the following findings:

Burning Issue: Physical and Emotional Exhaustion

The leader should dedicate more time to handle the physical and emotional exhaustion and fatigue of colleagues and their consequences on performance. In the attached document you can find the symptoms, which if spotted in your team, are indicating a similar issue.

Leadership Recommendation: Listen to People

As a result of exhaustion, people complain more. The leader should understand these complaints (in connection with other factors) as an invitation for discussion. His / her people are looking for help. The first step to provide support is to actively listen to them. Stop, ask questions and give space for answers. For more details and tips, please see the attached document.

Recommendation for HR: Help Leaders Have Important Talks

HR can play a very important role in solving this challenge. To help leaders in these situations, they can provide guidance on how to efficiently hold the discussion, or if needed, participate in it as well. They should also provide the necessary diagnostics or development solutions for the team – be it a regular pulse-check to keep an eye on the situation, a training on resilience or hybrid / remote work efficiency or – if need be – systematic leadership development program.

What To Do When Your Team Is Losing Team Spirit?

The next leadership challenge of the Time Travelling Leader will deal with the breaking of the team. You can find more details on the dedicated site. If you leave your e-mail, you will receive the challenge and the related solutions, and you can join this playful way of learning.

If you currently face similar challenges in your teams and organization, tell us more in the contact form here.