Another fantastic post Helen. This topic is something I believe a lot of folks out there are struggling with, myself included.
The two biggest traps I follow into are treating everything as an emergency and not leaving work at work. For me, this stems from the early days of my career working at a startup. In that environment, everything was an emergency because the company could very well fail if we didn't resolve issues.
This was both a positive and negative in my career. It was positive because I learned how to deal with stressful situations and wear multiple different hats simultaneously. However, it was negative in that I now treat all projects as critical emergency projects (even my own).
I personally need to find the balance here as I believe this is both a strength and a weakness. Essentially I need to learn the skill of walking away and saying "this can wait until tomorrow morning".
Thanks Kyle, that sounds very familiar ... working in a startup environment is incredibly different from corporate life and it's easy to get caught up in every crisis whether its something you look after or not.
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Another fantastic post Helen. This topic is something I believe a lot of folks out there are struggling with, myself included.
The two biggest traps I follow into are treating everything as an emergency and not leaving work at work. For me, this stems from the early days of my career working at a startup. In that environment, everything was an emergency because the company could very well fail if we didn't resolve issues.
This was both a positive and negative in my career. It was positive because I learned how to deal with stressful situations and wear multiple different hats simultaneously. However, it was negative in that I now treat all projects as critical emergency projects (even my own).
I personally need to find the balance here as I believe this is both a strength and a weakness. Essentially I need to learn the skill of walking away and saying "this can wait until tomorrow morning".
Thanks Kyle, that sounds very familiar ... working in a startup environment is incredibly different from corporate life and it's easy to get caught up in every crisis whether its something you look after or not.