Happiness can boost your productivity, motivation and ambition
With increasing pressure to achieve results, understaffed teams and uncertainty about the future, happiness at work can be hard to sustain. But there are a number of things that managers can do to stay positive, perform to the best of their ability and deal with new challenges as they make their way up the career ladder.
Avoid the two-year itch
Managers are at their happiest and performing best, during the first two years at an organisation, and after that their performance and positivity tends to drop significantly. Managers can avoid this danger zone by seeking out new challenges and taking on new responsibilities to keep them stimulated and motivated.
Develop skills for the future
Before you reach the two-year mark in your organisation, find out training or qualifications are on offer and talk to your boss about how these may help your career progression.
Develop a vision
To develop a vision, you need to analyse the environment in which you work, forecast how it will develop, and you are to where you want to be.
Find your optimum stress level
While too much stress can have a negative impact, a certain amount is actually a key ingredient for the happy manager and their team. The challenge for managers is to keep stress at the right levels.
Master your workload
Focus on developing the skills you need to break down your tasks and conquer your to-do list. Softer skills, such as goal-setting and delegation, will help you to get things done in an efficient way.
Keep an eye on your team
The happiness of your staff is a reliable indicator of their performance, so be sure to act on any signs of unhappiness amongst your team. — The Guardian
