trukl: 4 Tips to help you support staff

There are many companies out there that push their employees with countless amounts of deadlines and thrive from a high-pressure working environment to drive their financial success. 

However, a fiercely competitive environment is likely to become disadvantageous to the work rate over time, therefore a welcoming and encouraging environment should lead to more positive outcomes for workers. 👏

Although there’s an assumption that stress and pressure push’s workers to perform effectively, there are many downsides to this way of working which negatively affect employees. 

Here's a few tips to help you support your staff and improve productivity within the workplace 🙌🏼

1. Transformational leadership is an effective method of leadership:  When leaders encourage their staff to make suggestions and take part in the decision-making process, it creates a collaborative environment with positive staff performance outcomes and higher organisational commitment. It is based on the idea that all employees should be working together towards a singular, common goal within a company. 
2. Show empathy to your employees: As a boss, you likely set the mood of the office and have a big impact on how your employees feel. Therefore, it is important to show empathy towards your staff so they feel they can interact with you at ease.
3. Be approachable: By taking time out to help workers with anything such as a query or issue in their home life, you will appear very caring and approachable. Chances are you have gained a lot of loyalty from that particular employee too! It has been proven that workers are more productive when their Manager has taken time out to help them.
4. Team spirit is necessary: In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Emma Seppälä and Kim Cameron stated “A large number of studies confirm that positive social connections at work produce highly desirable results. For example, people get sick less often, recover twice as fast from surgery, experience less depression, learn faster and remember longer, tolerate pain and discomfort better, display more mental acuity, and perform better on the job. Conversely, research by Sarah Pressman at the University of California, Irvine, found that the probability of dying early is a whopping 70% higher for people with poor social relationships.” So yes, it is important to host the odd team building activity or allow social relationships within the workplace!