Get tips from an expert about how employees and teams can reduce stress.
Partner with your teammates to identify and eliminate hazards in your workplace. Encourage everyone to voice their opinion and be part of the process.
Make appreciation part of your team agenda. Such positive gestures build morale and reduce stress and anxiety.
Renew your focus on gratitude and recognize teammates who shine amid the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic.
How to get that feeling of success and fulfillment that comes from doing work that matters.
Do you toss and turn because you have trouble falling asleep? Help your co-workers make small changes to their sleep routines. Then huddle up and discuss what worked best.
Mayhem ensues in this spoof when a medical assistant at Mainstreet Hospital is pulled in too many directions. Turn to your unit-based team to avoid a similar fate!
Mayhem ensues in this spoof when a medical assistant at Mainstreet Medical Center is pulled in too many directions. Can you avoid a similar fate? Get involved with your unit-based team and help fix out-of-whack systems and processes that can cause stress and lead to burnout.
In this spoof about stress, a busy medical assistant at Mainstreet Medical Center is overcome—literally and figuratively—with work. There's hope, though: Unit-based teams are great at fixing out-of-whack systems and processes that can undermine a team and its members.
In this spoof about stress, a busy medical assistant at Mainstreet Medical Center is overcome—literally and figuratively—with work. There's hope, though: Unit-based teams are great at fixing out-of-whack systems and processes that can undermine a team and its workers.
Produced by Kellie Applen.
Shot, edited and directed by Vibrant Films.
Tips and tools for and by managers and leaders to relieve job pressure—on themselves and others.
Part of a manager’s job is to look at the big picture—and job stress and burnout are usually part of the picture in health care. Operational leaders from two regions share their thoughts on keeping workplace energy and morale high.
There’s very little downtime in our work. We want to deliver great service, quality, affordability. The pace is fast, as our industry is changing rapidly. That can be a formula for stress. No one can do this work alone—we all need to support one another.
High-performing unit-based teams are part of the solution. Solving even one problem at a time can help a team increase job satisfaction and get results, and that reduces stress. If you are leading teams you have to be very purposeful—making time with your team, creating space to talk and making our meeting time productive and solution-focused.
Some of our facilities have Living Room huddles, where people from all departments gather before the start of business, and one department presents a topic. It’s an opportunity to learn and build relationships across the facility. The more connected we are, the more we can support each other.
Running is my No. 1 antidote to stress. I try to run regularly—early in the morning before the workday, and longer on weekends. It’s my way to expend physical energy and feel mentally reenergized.
You have to make time for yourself, and that includes exercise. It’s not easy to do. But when you make exercise a priority, you create energy to be able to deal more effectively with stress.
It’s hard to generalize about stress because everybody has a different stress meter. We all handle things differently. It’s an issue of work-life balance, and we’re in an industry where we all invest our personal energy, because health care is about caring for others.
People have to be aware of that and think about what they can do to manage their energy and stress levels. We should proactively manage things at work that sap energy and invest in things that raise our energy.
As a leader, I have to be aware of what I can do to minimize energy-wasters and reduce job stress.
We talk about stress in our workplace safety conversations. I address it as part of leadership rounding. And rounding is not just checking the box. It’s focused on engaging with people about how they’re doing, letting them know you care, encouraging them to spend time with their families and calling out work-related issues that are barriers to performance.
We focus on creating a culture where we understand and respect one another.
I hate sitting all day long. I do core exercises at work in my spare moments. You have to know when to step away and recharge. I try to eat right, exercise, listen to music and pray. I’m still working on getting enough sleep.
Rounding is a powerful tool for creating a culture where employees are free to speak. Having a short list of open-ended questions to ask each person on a regular basis makes it easier for staff members to raise concerns—and that, in turn, helps reduce stress levels.
This PowerPoint slide highlights a call center team that improved employee morale with fun, healthy diversions.