This April is Stress Awareness Month. Now in its 29th year, the campaign exists to bring awareness to our ‘modern epidemic’ of stress and the harm it can cause. Modern-day stress levels are no secret, and a quarter of people say that work is their biggest source of stress.
Work should be a place to thrive, grow and achieve — when done well, HR is the track on which a high-functioning workplace runs. Read on for our 3 steps to handling stress in the workplace.
Begin with the essentials
Picture the scene. Business is going well. All of your hours are filled with meetings, accounts, sales reviews, team training. Then something comes up, and you don’t have the right HR systems in place to deal with it. Perhaps it’s staff misconduct, an equality issue, the need to hire somebody new. You’re left scrambling to fix it, on top of everything else.
Sounds stressful, right?
Beginning with all the HR essentials in place sets a great foundation. A HR specialist can simplify this process, finding out exactly what your business needs, and is likely to need in the future, and making sure it’s all in place for when you need it.
Make HR work for you — not the other way around
We know that sometimes Human Resources might be caricatured as needless form-filling, the reality is quite the opposite: good HR can put systems in place that free you up to do great work.
Start by diagnosing what is going to bring the biggest benefit. Perhaps implementing a watertight system for onboarding new employees, or a set of compliant policies to take the guesswork out of disputes, redundancies or health and safety.
Whatever it is for you, a little investment ahead of time will save stress and time in the long-run.
Leave it to the professionals
We get it. You didn’t start your business to become an HR expert. You started it because you have a product, a service or a set of skills you believe in, and you want to do great work.
The good news is that HR experts are only a phone call away. Whether you’re looking for a complete HR service, or help with a specific project or policy, bringing in a skilled HR pro (like us, for example!) frees up a ton of your time, and is an affordable investment.
And with your HR in safe hands, you can breathe a sigh of relief.
Ready to take the stress out of your HR?
Why not take 30 minutes to set yourself up for stress-free HR? We’re offering a totally free 30 minute phone consultation. Ask us your HR questions, and see how we could help you.
