Here's how you can balance stress and work-life as an Operations Research expert.

Personally, I would suggest to Pareto daily and move forward with small steps. It works for short-, middle- and long-range timelines and it is disproportionately simple tool to apply, compared to how powerful it is. This simplicity also helps lower stress as you do not have to make complex decisions, when you don't have all the data to make the absolute best decision. Still you will also make the best decision with your current knowledge. If you Pareto daily it also naturally drives your actions into a continuous improvement notion, which yields massive results in the long-term. Teams also benefit from the clarity in priorities and also the causality of qhy they work on the exact tasks, they have in the pipeline.

Set Boundaries: Fixed work hours, prioritize tasks, and don't overload. Work Smarter: Automate tasks, use collaboration tools, and take breaks. Stay Healthy: Sleep well, exercise regularly, and disconnect after work. Find Balance: Build a support network, pursue hobbies, and recharge outside work.

Learn to trust on your team, learn to disseminate and decentralise task, do not always to be at front sometimes let the team go ahead of you to measure their understanding, leadership skills, and their succession capacity to leadership roles. This will relieve you and give you room for other things I.e., strategic, family, community, side hustles etc.

Re email, I decided that when I was only a .cc on a note, it was therefore not my immediate priority for action. So in Outlook I setup a rule to put all of these straight from my Inbox into a ".cc" folder, which I checked weekly rather than daily. This helped to reduce the time I simply spent on email, releasing time for other tasks.

To effectively navigate the demands of an operations role, it is crucial to establish distinct boundaries between work and personal life. As an operations professional, the influx of tasks can be constant, necessitating the streamlining of processes through automation of repetitive tasks. Flexibility in scheduling is key to addressing urgent matters promptly, with a commitment to balancing work obligations with personal time. Familiarize yourself with the appropriate technologies and periodically assess your workload to identify and streamline time-consuming tasks. By implementing these strategies, you can enhance efficiency and maintain a healthy work-life balance in your role as an operations personnel. I am proud to be one.

It is difficult to maintain intense concentration on anything for more than 2 hours. So limit yourself to sessions of this length, and question any meeting or conference which goes into a third hour without a break.

The key word is Balance. Personal life (family, children, development, leisure) and professional life require a lot of balance depending on the dynamics of current life.

It is self-evident that in a team there will be a blend of skill-sets, regardless of grade. Therefore it is most efficient to delegate tasks according to talent and enthusiasm.

Agree in principle, but flexibility is needed if your workload is worldwide, with colleagues on time-zones ahead-of, or behind your own. Ensure you pay yourself back for any overtime or unsocial hours worked.