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How to manage when you are understaffed
Try to stay focused and dedicated to delivering quality products and high performance to continually meet the needs of the business. This can be quite a challenge trying to achieve everything that used to be completed by more people. You may be feeling overwhelmed and stressed out, but don't let any of your employees sense your anxiety but instead stay calm and try to come up with different strategies to balance everything.
When you are understaffed, make sure you hold regular team meetings. You need to keep the team focused on the company goals and acknowledge positive results and efforts your team members make every day. This process can get the team members energized and help them to stay effective to support long term goals. It's essential to periodically reevaluate individual and team goals to ensure that their goals still match to the ones of the company. If an employee just can't seem to accomplish everything on his agenda, then he needs to choose one goal that is critical and focus on it until it is done. If you take the time to honestly study and recognize your team's accomplishments, you can bring new ideas on how to make their work more effective, beneficial and productive. You can implement new technology. This can be painful in the short term, but can have long term benefits. You can bring them to focus more on what they can do differently to give better returns with better results. If employees leave the company often or are constantly absent, establish a retention plan. Try to focus on improving communication. Offer different exciting incentives and come up with new programs to help them to enjoy coming to work each day. Managing when you are understaffed can be done with tactics and with a very positive attitude. Keep yourself mentally fit to face everyday work challenges and stay focused on one project at the time. Make sure you have good communication with your team so you are aware of what's going on at all time. Keep the stress level down by letting yourself enjoy life from time to time. |
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