High levels of stress in the workplace are common for workers at any job level. Yes, it’s the same with subordinates, people at the leadership level can also burn out from the pressure to deliver large output with minimal input.
One of the ways to prevent burnout and work stress is to balance your personal and professional life so you don’t burden each other. Reporting from Entrepreneurs, the following strategic methods can be applied by those of you who are at the leadership level to achieve this balance.
Prioritizing Yourself First
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Determining business and personal priorities is a skill that a leader must have. However, between the two things, you must prioritize personal things, aka yourself, because everything you try in life will come down to that point.
If you compare the time you have in a day to a container filled with boulders and sand, then personal things are boulders and work is sand. To maximize volume in a container, all you have to do is place your large stones first before filling the spaces between them with sand.
Check Your Needs Every Day
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Prioritizing your own well-being is only the first step to balancing your personal and professional life. The next step to take is to examine your own needs each day.
Focus your attention on the four most important aspects of yourself, starting from physical, social/emotional, mental, and also spiritual. Evaluate these aspects every day and plan what you need to optimize those aspects.
Increasing Mutual Trust in the Team
4 Ways Leaders Can Do to Balance Personal and Professional Life/Photo: Freepik.com/tirachardz
Mutual trust is, without a doubt, one of the most important aspects of building a solid team. If you want to be the leader of a team like this, you have to demonstrate integrity and take the time to build good relationships with team members.
You can also increase that team members can rely on each other by putting anyone’s personal well-being before business.
This is one of the skills that a leader must possess if his team members are to feel comfortable discussing personal matters outside of work and looking after each other in the professional realm.
Ask for help
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The next way to balance your personal and professional life to prevent burnout at work is to be humble and willing to ask for help. As a leader, you don’t always have to take on all the challenges your team faces alone.
Surround yourself with people who can give you important advice or input, even if it may go against your basic principles. By doing this, you will realize that some problems that seem too hard to solve alone are actually quite easy to overcome with the help of others.
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