RWL212:How to help your team to avoid burnout

Speaker 1
0:00

Hey , it's Alex from Remote Work Life Podcast . I hope this finds you well , wherever you may be in the world , and thank you for joining me once again for another episode of the Remote Work Life Podcast . It's much appreciated . And today we're going to talk about encouraging a healthy work life balance for yourself and your team . This is really key , really important , something that I've been , I guess I've benefited from in the various teams that I've worked in . I've been lucky to have managers , lucky to have colleagues that appreciate the benefits of having balance in work and life .

Speaker 1
0:39

And before I go on , I would stress that work-life balance is , I guess , different from person to person . It's not something that is a one-size-fits-all . What's balanced to some is imbalanced to others , and by balance I don't necessarily mean that everything is in perfection . Balance means that you are managing . You know managing optimizing your work and your life so that you sorry optimizing your work , so that you can benefit from everything that life has to offer as well . So that's something that I've managed to do myself . It's not an easy thing to do . It's something that I've managed to do myself . It's not an easy thing to do . It's something that requires work , but from the perspective of working in a team and if you're managing a team , it's something that's really important , and there are just a few tips that I wanted to share in order for well to hope , in the hopes that you can use these tips , if you're not doing so already , in order to help yourself and members of your team to experience that that balance , because that that balance can can lead to to better well-being for yourself and your team and therefore , hopefully , a more productive team . So here here are , I guess , four tips let me suggest to you that I've either used myself or have experience of having , or have had those shared with me by other people who work on a remote basis . So , leading by example , especially if you're a manager , if you're not in balance , if you're out of sync with work and life , then it's going to be very difficult for you to recommend to your team , or they're perhaps not going to . Your credibility is going to be questioned in terms of okay , if you , if you're not managing and balancing your work and life , then how then can you have that credibility to to to say , to your team or to impress upon your team the importance of work-life balance ? So you need to demonstrate a healthy work-life balance by setting your own clear work hours and respecting your personal time , and hopefully that will encourage your team to do the same thing . So that's number one .

Speaker 1
3:21

Number two is open . So creating an environment where your team members feel comfortable about discussing their work-life balance , their challenges , their successes , and even sharing with the rest of the team the things that are going well , and also even discussing well-being as well . I mean , not everybody's going to be comfortable discussing well-being on a one-to-one basis , let alone on a team basis . So you have to be empathetic in that area and understand who wants to talk about it and who doesn't want to talk about it . But I think it's something that should be encouraged at least , or at least , even if you can't discuss it in a team , I think there should be channels in which it can be discussed privately if the individual wishes to do that . So open channels for communication . This can be also achieved through regular check-ins or check-ins when you both agree , and creating a space for , for open dialogue , whether whether that's , as I said , in a private forum or or amongst your , your teammates .

Speaker 1
4:36

So number three is setting clear expectations . So clearly , communicating your work hours . So everybody needs to be encouraged to communicate their work hours , if that is possible , and availability with your team , and it might be that this is done through shared calendars , so you don't necessarily have to show everybody everything that's on your calendar , but at least if they can see , you see when you're working , when you're you're working , when you're not working . This transparency helps to manage expectations and reduces interruptions and , it again , it shows that you're attempting at least to create that balance that you , that you're striving for . So that's number three on my list .

Speaker 1
5:23

Number four is celebrating achievements . So take time to celebrate your achievements and milestones , to maintain a sense of accomplishment and achievement , because you know work is , is work and work can . Um , can feel like you don't want to be feeling like you're working and you're not sort of making any progress . So any acknowledgement of a specific achievement or a specific milestone , no matter how big or small , can help to encourage a healthy and balanced working environment . So I hope those tips have helped . Um , if you can think of any other tips , please by all means do share them . Uh , you can do that by sharing with me personally my linkedin details are in the show notes below or , by all means , leave a review with your suggestions with your questions , and I'd be happy to read each review . And , of course , if you have any ideas or ideas for guests or for episodes on the Remote Work Life podcast , please do reach out to me via LinkedIn and let me know . But until next time , I wish you all the best .