Finding Dis-Stress On Your Teams

Especially When People Don’t “Tell” You About It

I was recently in a group discussion and someone asked me how to identify Dis-Stress on their team.

They said that they will ask people on their team how things are going, and the reply is always the same.

“I’m doing alright.”

They wanted to know how to draw out from their team the reality of what is going on.

There’s a few things to recognize.

This first is this.

About 80% of people are going through Burnout.

That means that just about everyone is in some state of Dis-Stress.

If they say, “I’m doing alright”, it means one of two things.

• They “might” actually be doing well, but these individuals are extremely few and far between (I’d estimate less than 1% of people)
• More likely, they don’t trust you enough yet to tell you.

So, what are you to do as a Leader?

First, is assume that the vast majority of the time people are experiencing some level of Dis-Stress.

It may be a small amount, but as I always say, All Stress Adds.