Fatigue can kill your business, if you let it.

Is your company experiencing financial challenges?  Are these challenges increasing your team’s workload, worries and contributing to organizational fatigue?

Businesses with financial challenges experience a vast increase in organizational workload that will cause team member and stakeholder performance to degrade.

Due to diminished resources, routine, repeatable processes must be handled manually and micro-managed.  These increased tasks add stress and lead to mistakes which require even more counter-measures.

Team members, suppliers and other stakeholders become weary.   They lose confidence.   Little by little, the added tasks go undone or are delayed.   All stakeholders begin to perform less effectively.  Organizational performance degrades, sales drop, and costs rise due to poor execution.

To prevent and combat the fatigue induced “death spiral”, leaders must do the following with team members and stakeholders:

1)      Do not understate the severity of the problem

2)      Define the problem the company faces and explain it completely

3)      Collaborate on a realistic vision of the solution

4)      Set clear expectations

5)      Be honest and clear in your communications

6)      Maintain open, proactive communication

7)      Deal with concerns directly and promptly

8)      Get commitments and assess willingness of each team member and stakeholder to rise to the challenge

9)      Focus on the best and most committed of team members and stakeholders

10)   SHOW UP for the hard stuff

11)   Model calm and deliberate behavior

12)   Help.  Be part of the solution by taking on additional roles where your skill set delivers good outcomes, demonstrates commitment and reduces overall organizational workload

13)   Clarify and Simplify continuously by focusing only on essentials

14)   Define the metrics for determining progress and report them - good or bad

15)   Iterate as necessary, quickly