2021-10-12 Meeting notes

Stress Relief in Resource Sharing

Karla/Chris

• What is stressing staff:

  • Are many Resource Sharing Units experiencing reduced staffing due to the pandemic?

  • Are people experiencing additional responsibilities and expectations?

  • Email desensitization

    • How to make information more friendly?

  • Working at home outside work hours

  • Stress relief tip sheet

  • show and tell an office item/decor/toy that sparks joy

  • Word Cloud how you are feeling before and after

  • Send out stress toys? Stress balls?

Ways to help

How to help with Stress?

• Discussions/Open forums can be good but how do we keep it from being just a venting session?

• Sometimes a complain session can be therapeutic

• Update email contacts list

• What are some destress tools/suggestions. De-escalation techniques, breathing techniques, coaching techniques

• Helping others can be stress relieving. Card sharing to say thank you to other ILL departments.

• Thanksgiving. Make a card template to put on the wiki and ask people to send that out to their CSU pals.

• Happy Hour last week of October

• Messages to COLD