How to Protect Your Team When Stress Turns Someone Into a Liability

About this episode

The episode discusses how to identify and manage team members under stress to prevent negative impacts on projects and goals.

We're talking about what happens to the people around you when pressure spikes, how to spot the ones who are about to blow up the mission, project or goal, how to be honest about whether that person might be you and 3 protocols to put to work when the pressure is on and someone is losing it and doesn't even realize it. STUDY CITATIONS Raio, C.M., Konova, A.B., & Otto, A.R. (2020). Trait impulsivity and acute stress interact to influence choice and decision speed during multi-stage decisio...

People in this episode

Host: Brandon White

Topics covered

• team management
• stress management
• workplace dynamics
• decision making
• protocols for pressure

Keywords

• stress
• team dynamics
• management
• protocols
• decision making

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