Leaders Fight Stress, Get Out of Your Office

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Leadership can be a roller coaster of emotion and at times the less pleasant aspects of the job are stressful and can even lead to depression. When that happens, the solution can be right there in the organization. When the world, or at least the working world, seemed to have turned against me I would go out to some part of my organization and visit with the people who actually made things happen. I would watch them and talk to them and each time gain some new appreciation for what they did and how they did it.

I always came away a refreshed, a little less stressed, and with renewed spirit. These visits were also an important reminder that those workers were the ones who determined success or failure and that my future, and the future of the entire organization, was inextricably tied to them. They were relying on me to make it easier to do their jobs.

Those visits renewed my desire to shield them from the problems I dealt with as much as possible. They also reminded me that it was my responsibility to do my best to make it possible for them to do their jobs.

In leadership positions, it’s easy to become insulated from the very people who can determine your success or failure. The four walls of your office can ensure that you never have to interact with the workers.

Don’t let that happen.

Push yourself away from your desk and get out to the shops, or offices, or trucks, or wherever else your people do the work that makes you and the company successful.

You’ll feel refreshed.