How’s Your Organization’s ‘Stress Department’ Doing?

When you walk into an office, are you greeted in a friendly manner or made to feel as though you’re interrupting something more important? How do people answer the phone when you call? Do you get a returned call in a reasonable time?

While a certain amount of stress in an organization is absolutely normal, when levels get too high you start to see under-performing teams, missed deadlines, less smiling, and more conflicts. In a nonprofit, you find less eagerness to participate, a loss of motivation, and more personality issues.

Before the most recent economic crash, I regularly conducted retreats and training to develop teamwork and camaraderie, leadership and management communication skills at all levels for many smart enterprises, including financial organizations and a variety of other industries. Now, I’m beginning to see wise leaders move in those directions again, as experienced Boomers leave their positions and under-trained or never-trained colleagues are expected to take their places. But stress remains high in many places.

If you’d like to learn how your organization’s “stress department” is doing, I invite you to download and review a sample Workplace Stress Assessment, which I can provide for free until May 30.  http://speakoutinc.com/leadership-communication-corporate/