Supporting Your Team through Team Stress: 4 Steps

The video discusses stress management for team leaders, focusing on identifying stress signs, understanding and addressing root causes, and building resilience. It emphasizes restoring control, treating individuals with compassion, and implementing long-term strategies to enhance team resilience.

What is the most important sign that a team might be under stress?

• Increased productivity

• Improved team relationships

• Tangible changes for the worse

• More frequent team meetings

What is a common cause of stress according to the video?

• Lack of vacation time

• Feelings of not being in control

• Too many team-building activities

• Excessive praise from management

If a deadline cannot be changed, what should a manager do to help reduce stress?

• Increase the workload

• Reduce team size

• Ignore the deadline

• Give more control over work structure

What is an important step in treating individual cases of stress?

• Ignoring their requests

• Reducing their responsibilities permanently

• Listening to their concerns

• Assigning more tasks

Why is it important to address the root causes of stress?

• To increase team size

• To improve office decor

• To prevent worsening of the situation

• To reduce the number of meetings

What is a key aspect of building team resilience?

• Providing unlimited resources

• Reducing team communication

• Encouraging competition among team members

• Establishing routines for stress management

How can team members be made more resilient to stress?

• By reducing their responsibilities

• By ensuring they have good routines for rest and exercise

• By giving them more work

• By isolating them from the team