Shorter days. Cold nights. Time change. Holidays. Elections. Performance reviews. End-of-year wrap-ups.
Both you and your people may have lower energy and higher stress these days.
Consider how you can take care of everyone. It’s a good time to pace the workload, provide little extras in the break room, and check in to rebalance potentially overloaded team members. Make sure to check in to see how each person is doing.
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