What do you do if your team members are struggling with stress and career growth?

Humble Listening skills. Avoid story-telling empathy. Acknowledging the situation is the first step: you might see it, but they might not. Once the conversation is brought to the table- by them or you. Listening is the Key. The trick is to listen, without thinking about what to say. Just listen. Avoid story-telling empathy: once you share your own option or your own 'similar' experience you are taking the conversation over and no longer listening. A career coach could be helpful for this phase of their progress.

Understanding Your Audience*: Empathy starts with understanding your audience's needs, challenges, and aspirations. Before writing, take the time to research your target audience and gain insights into their interests and pain points.

Be an active ally. Listen. Listen with attention. Without interrupting, without giving advice, without judging, and without statements like - ?others have it worse.” Show Your empathy and understanding.

Recently, I provided constructive feedback to a colleague about a presentation. I praised their efforts and research, then suggested specific improvements such as including concrete examples and reorganizing the content. They received the feedback positively, and together we improved the presentation, highlighting the importance of a constructive and empathetic approach to feedback. To sum up, we can get the best out of people and learn from collaborative approaches

Act like an active ally! Showing recognition as well as giving feedback is essential in building relationships. Even if your team’s work is not satisfactory and still requires correction and improvement, try to convey your feedback in a motivating way. When assessing, refer to the outcomes! Try to act according to the rule: there are no mistakes, there are lessons. Show recognition and gratitude. Show it at every stage of work, appreciate even the smallest successes! Everyone, absolutely everyone, will feel an extra boost of motivation if the effort they’ve put in is noticed and appreciated.”

Learning equals victory. There is no other way to overcome the stress associated with facing professional challenges than through education. And this is the truth you should share with your team! By adopting the mindset of ?I can do it as I can learn it” they won't allow stress to sabotage their actions and will definitely succeed!

Focus on Real Life - no work is worth your health. If the work is worrying them, it is unlikely that talking about wellbeing magically relive the stress. If the cut is deep, a band-aid won't solve it long term. Dissociate the stress struggle and the career growth. Tackling the stress properly will lead to the other's resolution. Small amounts of pressure can be good adrenaline and motivation boost. Once at the stress stage, you need to help your team member to shift their thinking process and a prioritise the workload.

The only way to maintain a constant level of motivation as far as your team is by taking care of people’s mental well-being. Balance between work and personal life, including the right to disconnect from duties, adopting the approach - when closing the company’s doors, you have the right to rest and privacy, will undoubtedly result in greater productivity and consequently, better outcomes from your employees.

Inclusion. Promoting inclusive work environment, where everybody feels equally important, needed and appreciated, where you have the feeling of belonging, as you are a member of a team, a family, where you feel support and you know, there is a colleague to collaborate, to share opinions, make decisions- this is the key to success

Leading by example is more than just giving orders; it's about inspiring and motivating others through your own actions. A true leader not only tells what to do but demonstrates how to do it. By leading by example, you create an environment where excellence is the norm and personal growth is encouraged. Be the kind of leader you would want to follow - someone who demonstrates integrity, dedication, and passion in everything they do. Always remember: your actions speak louder than your words.

Excellent topic. To begin with, we need to listen, acknowledge and respect the team/person going through this phase. Often, this unfortunate situation is being created by Managers/Top management by making path complicated/biased. If any management implement 7 expensive words “ we have always done in that way” will eliminate the chances of adding new ideas/collaboration & participation. We can solve this by making things/goals/processes simpler, clear and meaningful to the organisation & team. Appreciation, Respect, Right Coaching and progressive path are the only expectations of any employee. Business is all about people and idea’s. The moment you stop respecting people than idea’s, engagement, ownership, belonging will be vanished.

Consider rest and reflection. It's healthy to step away from the stressor. It helps to ease the mind, gain perspective, and reassess what it is they want and need in work (or life).