5 Ways To Support the Mental Health of Your Team

Latoya is an author, business owner, consultant and strategic leadership practitioner in Leesburg, Virginia.

  Leadership   Talent Management  

With many of us working remotely alongside our spouses, significant others and kids (who are also working or schooling remotely), one could argue that we have moved further away from a work-life balance and more into a work-life blend. The two are not the same.

While we are blending the two, many are not necessarily balancing the two. With the demands of work, childcare (including educating our children) and home life all tugging at us at the same time, it can be difficult to manage. We are trying to cope and manage our mental health—and so is every member of our team. In a new update of a yearly Gallup survey on mental health in the United States, just 34% of U.S. adults said they felt their mental health was in “excellent” condition (when asked in November). That is down from 43% in 2019 (2020 Takes Toll on Mental Health, Statista.com).

As managers, the acuity of our team is vital to achieving our objectives—thus the mental health of our staff must be addressed as part of our management style more than ever before.

This article shares five ways that we as managers can support the mental health of our teams—and thus positively impact the success of our projects.

1. Foster a balanced workload. Not only are work and home life blending, but because organizations are trying to do more with less, employees are bearing the brunt of it. …

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