How to Get Your Team to Perform in Difficult Times
When you’re under the gun to perform, how do you get the most out of your team?
Should you apply tension so that they feel pressured to perform? Or, should you take a more caring and compassionate approach?
In this episode, Dr. Patricia Thompson provides a brief overview of the research about how to create the sort of environment in which your team can thrive.
Spoiler alert: applying a lot of tension and stress will not get your people to perform their best.
Avoid committing this very common mistake! Listen and learn what the research says are better leadership strategies for getting great results.
Episode Highlights:
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- Real outcomes of stress – based on research that explores how stress impacts effectiveness, efficiency, andhealth
- Compassion: A better alternative in managing high-stress environment
- 6 characteristics of a compassionate workplace
- Do compassionate workplaces get results?
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- Researches about the real outcomes of stress:
- Stress and Job Performance
- Examining the Longitudinal Effects of Workload on Ill-Being Through Each Dimension of Workaholism
- All Work and No Play? A Meta-Analytic Examination of the Correlates and Outcomes of Workaholism
- Abusive Supervision and Employee Emotional Exhaustion: Dispositional Antecedents and Boundaries
- Job Strain, Job Insecurity, and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in the Women’s Health Study: Results from a 10-Year Prospective Study
- Psychosocial working conditions and the utilization of health care services
- In a Harvard Business Review article, Emma Seppala and Kim Cameron outlined 6 characteristics of a compassionate workplace
- Love 2.0: Finding Happiness and Health in Moments of Connection by Barbara L. Fredrickson Ph.D. – learn more about positivity resonance.
- Researches about the real outcomes of stress:
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