Improve your meetings for the well-being of your employees
In this article, originally published in Harvard Business Review France, Julia Milner, EDHEC Professor, proposes and describes how new ways and forms of meeting can (easily) improve the well-being of teams.
Being a manager is no easy task. With so many demands on your time every day, so much responsibility and so much pressure, it's easy to become overwhelmed. That's why it's vital for managers to invest in their own well-being. By taking care of themselves, they set an example for their team.
But well-being at work isn't just for leaders. They also need to ensure that their team members feel good. Ideally, managers should put in place and apply organisational strategies that promote well-being for everyone.
To be clear, while everyone can take action at their own level, this does not mean blaming those who do not feel well for their own ill-being: on the contrary, systemic measures must be put in place to give everyone the opportunity to take care of themselves and flourish at work.
Here are a few practical ideas that could be considered, both at the level of the systemic organisation and at that of the individual employee. Let's look in particular at a phenomenon that seems to cause a lot of headaches, increase stress levels and have a negative impact on well-being at work: meetings.
