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Wellbeing in Action: Leading Energy and Resilience for High-Performing Teams

Enable and encourage your team to work under optimum stress and energy levels and safeguard their well-being.

Learning Objectives

Discover how to recognize stress and energy levels in your team

Understand which support strategies safeguard optimum stress & energy levels in the team

Design an action plan to enable your team to prioritize their well-being.

Frameworks taught in class​

Flow Matrix

Flow_Framework

The four strategies

Ground rules

Ground rules have to do with everything you organize to minimize too much stress & optimize energy balance. Increase the collaboration with your team members to encourage them to manage their stress and energy. Examples are: team breaks, daily standup, shorter meeting times, daily team walks, flexible working hours, focus blocks, team challenges to set clear boundaries etc.

1:1

Asking for help is a sign of strength, however, not everyone always feels that way. The best way to fend off stress is to show that you care. In 1:1’s show your team members that you listen; to their problems, challenges and that you want to help to find solutions. And also share your challenges every now and then. These planned moments with your team members help to minimize barriers and in turn it increases productivity.

 

Role Modelling

The behaviour you show will largely impact your team! Your team members are influenced by your well-being. Promote activities and ground rules that manage stress & energy and demonstrate them. Remember: we can’t help others until we first are aware of our own stress & energy levels and how we are managing them.

 

Micro climate

 We can’t always influence corporate culture but we can influence the climate in our team. Do we talk about stress & energy management? Do we recognize and openly discuss too much stress when we signal this? Do you (as a leader) support people to open up about this? Does everyone have the same idea about stress & energy management. If not, do you know what ideas are there in the team? Questions like this help to set up the right team climate.

 

How you can support​

Goal check-in

  • Ask the learner what goal they have for the module.
  • What is their approach to reach this goal?
  • How can you support them?

Inspire

  • Share an example of how a support strategy helped to manage stress and energy in a team.
  • Talk about a time when a support strategy would have helped to prevent the negative consequences of stress.
  • What did you learn?

Activate

  • Discuss the learner's stress level and support at times of stress.
  • Ask the learner to make stress a topic on the agenda of the team.
  • Ask which support strategy they want to implement and support them during the implementation.

TIP: in your next 1:1 meeting go through the questions above