Employers ask you to manage. You also need to be able to cope. The difference between the two is crucial.

Many of my clients face excessive workloads.
Incessant demands impossible to plan for.
Ever-rising business volumes without the right processes.

In response, they are expected to manage.

Managing is both cognitive and behavioural.
It demands reflection and execution.
It is a core skill notably involving thinking analytically, problem solving, mitigating risks and replanning.

In contrast, whether managers cope seems on no one’s radar screen.
Coping is emotional making it possible to process feelings.
It’s vital because a manager unable to cope eventually runs solely on fumes.

Most workplaces demand managing and overlook coping.

Under stress, a manager’s feelings often include:

  • anxiety over continued delivery
  • worry over their team’s welfare
  • a growing sense of overwhelm.

Your feelings unacknowledged and therefore unprocessed –  without any support to cope – your capacity to manage well will erode, especially over an extended period of time.

When a manager is unable to cope, Relation Friction shows up when they:

  • Inappropriately reveal their frustration, for example snapping at colleagues
  • Themselves become a cause for concern
  • Bring their stress home and spoil their family life

If this resonates with you, I can facilitate your Relationship Wisdom so you:

  • Know how to consistently resource yourself
  • Remain a safe harbour for your team
  • Put in place a few powerful time management strategies

Coping is self-care. Denying it self-sabotage.

I invite you to develop your restorative Relationship Wisdom.

 

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