Reduce Conflict in the Workplace by Helping Your Employees Juggle It All
After working for the same software company for several years, a young professional moved 90 minutes away from the organization.
Instead of resigning or dealing with a grueling commute, she proposed that she could come into the office just one day a week, and work the rest of the time from home. The company leadership agreed.
The young woman found a mutually agreeable solution that allowed her to achieve work-life balance. Unfortunately, many employees in the same situation wouldn’t feel comfortable making such a request.
With so many companies doing more with less, employees need to achieve a better work-life balance… and you can help your organization do just that.
1. Find Out What Coworkers and Employees Need
Some workers might want a more flexible office schedule, a compressed workweek, job sharing options, or resources for child or elder care. Others may want healthy workplace initiatives like on-site exercise classes and wellness lectures.
What can you do?
Form a work-life committee to survey people and find out their needs. Members can then recommend ways the organization might help employees achieve more balanced lives.
2. Relieving the Pressure of Overtime Demands
When demands become rigorous, everyone suffers.
What can you do?
Do something special for coworkers and employees – like providing a dessert, a dinner, or little thank you gestures. Suggest that dedicated people get an afternoon off… and everyone will be rewarded with a newly refreshed coworker.
3. Setting an Example
People who don’t take time for themselves feel more stressed, and consequently, become less productive at work.
What can you do?
Don’t begrudge people their personal time. Encourage others in showing the proper work-life balance – when your boss leaves at 5:00 p.m. to see her son’s soccer game, realize that she should be doing it with pride!
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Reduce Conflict in the Workplace by Helping Your Employees Juggle it All
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Joyce Weiss, M.A., CSP
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Are your coworkers under so much pressure they’re erupting like volcanoes? Do you see people around you turning into pessimists? Are they waiting for the overwhelming situations to just go away?
Burnout is a general erosion of the spirit. It occurs when its victims have been worn out physically and emotionally as a result of long term stress … However, burnout is also a time for deep reflection to make major changes.
or the overwhelming situations to just go away?
10 TIPS TO KEEP THE FLAME BURNING
It took us a long time to form these negative habits, so it may take some time to make life changing choices. These ideas will take you back to the basics. Find the one idea that “speaks to you” and take some action. Are you ready?
1. Find a hobby.
Talk to people who have achieved balance in their lives and find out what activities they’ve added to enrich their lives. What activities have you wanted to experience? Now is the time to discover them – not when you retire.
2. Take a class for fun in order to add something different to your life.
A benefit from taking a new class is that you will meet people who have the same interests as you. If you are thinking that you don’t have the time, ask yourself…”If not now, then when?”
3. Volunteer for a cause that means something to you.
I hear many success stories of people finding new opportunities after they give their time and attention to others. Studies show that people tend to be happier when they help others.
4. Eat right and exercise.
Do these for the right reasons. Find a nutritionist or health coach who will support you to make behavioral changes that are stopping you from feeling as good as you can. It usually takes only a few sessions.
5. Rest.
I don’t mean hide. Your body may need some extra time to heal. So take the time, just don’t use it as an excuse to stay away from others.
6. Concentrate on what is in front of your nose.
If you’re taking a walk, notice what’s in front of you. If you’re at home, notice the person you’re talking to. Do your best to turn off your self talk about work.
7. Suggest holding team meetings to discuss what everyone in the organization can do together.
Are teams working together or waiting for the stress to go away?
The new norm is doing more with less. Strategize fresh ideas on how the team can work better than ever before.
8. Learn how to be authentic and share your thoughts with others.
This tip is a real burnout buster. People who are straightforward experience less stress. Instead of wasting hours during the night thinking of what you should have said to someone, just do it. Be Direct with Respect® is a skill that is well worth learning!
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9. Discover the necessity of positive humor at work and at home.
Positive humor lightens the stress of impossible tasks. Humor’s not a luxury in our lives anymore, it’s become a necessity.
10. Discover what values are important to you.
The qualities you consider most significant will have a tremendous impact on your life.
Which ones need immediate attention? Could it be personal solitude, creativity, family, social welfare, freedom, or independence? Balance is the key to re-igniting your energy.
REIGNITE YOUR ENERGY!
Abraham Lincoln said, “People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Burnout is a time for us to look within ourselves and find what is missing in our lives. With some introspection and change, we can rekindle our vitality and move on to more exciting times. And one last thing… make sure to enjoy the journey!
Check out the link below if you want to go deeper in your own life to gain the control that you deserve.
You will hear Joyce being interviewed on how to gain control and new facts about stress.
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Joyce Weiss, M.A., CSP
Conflict Resolution Consultant & Accountability Coach
Admit it… you may not like your job. You might come home every evening after a long day and spend the next few hours complaining to anyone who’ll listen about how miserable your workplace is and how you’d love to quit – if only you had enough money set aside to do so.
But let’s also face today’s economic reality. Jobs are hard to find, and any job that pays is one you have to keep. So if your work situation is less than ideal and you want a way to love what you do without changing your job, here are some suggestions to help.
1. Show optimism and a positive outlook at all times.
How can you be optimistic when you dislike your job? Remember that at least you have a job. You’re paying your bills and providing for your family. You’re not part of the newest unemployment statistic. Find something positive to focus on to remind yourself of how life would be if you didn’t have any job at all. In order to stay positive, strive for excellence, not because you have to, but because you want to.
2. Learn from setbacks and convert challenges into success.
Many people feel that they have “bad luck” at work. Everything that can go wrong seems to happen to them, and they then like to talk about these negative experiences, which only makes them even more depressed. But when something goes wrong, rather than dwell on the setback, find out what you can learn from the experience so you can be successful next time.
3. Do whatever it takes to get the job done.
If you don’t like the job and don’t want to do it, then the job won’t get done at all. It’ll be hanging over your head like a dark rain cloud, so you might as well do it anyway. Also, if you don’t get the job done, someone else will, and then you’ll get the pink slip. If you feel that you can’t do whatever it takes to get the job done because of a lack of resources and your hands are tied, then untie your own hands. What could you do differently given your existing resources? There’s always a second right answer.
4. Be eager to share ideas with leaders and colleagues.
You can’t work in a vacuum. You need to talk with others and collaborate in order to expand your thinking and gain new perspective. And you never know… someone may say something that makes you realize your job isn’t so bad after all.
5. Look for ways to constantly grow.
We are all a work in progress. And growth and learning is something that we must initiate; we can’t expect others to do it for us. Additionally, lifelong learning will make you more competitive in the marketplace. So when the economy rebounds and you can find that new job you want, you’ll have the skills and mindset to make it happen.
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which is a life coaching book
to help you deal with life’s stresses.
“A Straight forward, engaging and down to earth book for those desiring improvement in the quality and direction of their lives.”
Anthony Robbins, Author Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power“Joyce Weiss in Full Speed Ahead challenges the reader to deal with change on a personal and professional level as a way to maximize opportunity. The book starts with charging your life’s battery with positive attitude and brakes with a discussion of goal-setting and prioritizing. Each chapter has helpful worksheets that drive Weiss’ points home. Chapter 7, covering creativity, was a personal
favorite because it identifies the mental roadblocks to creatvity and shows how on can detour around them.Jim Pawlak, Book Reviewer for The Detroit News
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Joyce Weiss, M.A., CSP
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