How Bosses Can Stop Themselves From Taking On Everything In The Workplace

When you’re the boss, your schedule gets very easily packed.

From making decisions to meetings to customer interactions to employee training to doing admin, there’s a lot to keep up with that’s your responsibility. However, it’s also easy to take on things that aren’t really all that important for you to do. It’s why learning to delegate is such a crucial skill for any and all business owners; you’ve got to let your team take on some of the load.

The emotions that arise from this can be hard to deal with as well. If you’re doing too much, your head is going to be all over the place. When you feel stretched thin like this, your emotions are going to come to the surface in a way that’s hard to control.

And that’s something we want to focus on in this post. Not only do bosses tend to be genuinely busy, but their thoughts and feelings get tied up in it all too. If that’s the kind of situation you’re in, the points below can help you address both. Don’t let yourself take on too much when you’re at work – you’ll burn out sooner than you think.

Remember, a Bad Interaction is Not Personal

If you’re the boss, you can tie up your worth in your career in the moments when things go wrong. Whether you’re customer facing or it’s your job to lead shareholder meetings, mistakes can happen, and bad interactions are often the result.

They make you feel awkward and incapable, but they’re very normal. That’s the first thing to remember: you’re not the first boss or business owner who’s made a mistake. It’s easy to feel like one angry customer means you’re terrible at providing a good service, but rarely ever is an issue like this a personal one. Don’t let yourself take them too seriously; deal with them by remaining calm and professional, and remember that you’re representing a lot more than this one customer.

Trust in Your Employees’ Skills

You hired them because you knew they’d be good at the job. So, once they’re in the workplace and you’re feeling tempted to look over their shoulder, or you’re struggling to delegate tasks that are in their remit, remember this very simple fact. You put this team together because you needed them. You wanted to be able to leave tasks in their hands and forget about them. You wanted a team you could rely on, and this is where you can prove you made the right call.

Trust in yourself. Don’t let a sense of control get in the way of workplace satisfaction for everyone.

Set Up a Dynamic Phone System

Ever felt like the phone is ringing non-stop? Then you need a dynamic phone system to take the brunt for you. This will mean you’re not constantly grabbing the phone to see who’s on the other end, and as the boss, you know how hard it can be to resist that temptation! To create this kind of phone system, you’re going to need to invest in a virtual phone number. With virtual phone numbers you can set up various extensions that anyone in the related team can answer and handle.

This way you won’t have to forward anything yourself, which prevents you from becoming overwhelmed by the amount of calls you get during the work day. It also provides another way to trust in your team’s abilities. If they can be contacted directly and nothing goes wrong, you clearly made the right choice.

Turn Your Phone Off at the End of the Day

With your phone turned off, you’ll be truly disconnected from the working day you’ve just had. You won’t have to get connected again until you turn it back on the following morning. And if you can’t turn your phone off because it’s also your personal phone, you definitely need to invest in a separate one for the professional world.

Don’t underestimate just how stress relieving a move like this is. If you can turn your phone off the moment it hits 5pm, you won’t have to deal with any of the anxiety spikes that come with hearing business talk away from the office.

It might take some getting used to, but once you know the zen of having a clear and uninterrupted evening, you’re never going to want to go back.

Don’t Measure Your Success By a Bad Day

This is the follow-up to our first point. Bad interactions come and go, and while they can be damaging to your image as an upright professional, they tend to be easy to recover from. When you’ve had a full on bad day at work, however, you can end up feeling ten times worse.

A bad day is when those awkward interactions don’t stop coming, and by the end of the working day, you feel like you should hand the business off to someone else. You feel on edge about your future in the working world, and whether or not you made the right decision for your career.

One bad day really can get you spiralling like that! You start to doubt any and all success you’ve had up until now, and imposter syndrome can start to creep in. That’s where a business owner falls into the territory of making dangerous choices, but the key is to not do something rash. If you’ve had a bad day, give yourself time to calm down before you do anything else.

Feel Clogged Up By Work? Let Things Go

If you’re the boss, stop yourself from taking on too much at work by remembering points like these. The more you keep them in mind, the easier it will become to assign tasks, trust in your team, keep the work day flowing, and get home on time without any stress on your shoulders.

And never let yourself take things personally in a professional setting; it’s just not worth the time and energy!