To help your team prioritize without micromanaging: 1. Set clear goals: Establish key objectives and deadlines. 2. Regular check-ins: Brief, focused meetings to discuss progress. 3. Empower decision-making: Trust team to manage their tasks. 4. Provide resources: Offer tools and training for time management. 5. Lead by example: Demonstrate effective prioritization yourself. This approach guides your team while preserving autonomy, boosting both efficiency and morale.

Prioritizing without smelling up everyone’s office space. Provide tools for self management that foster autonomy and trust. Steps to take: 1. Ask them to start listing all the tasks and to rank the tasks by importance and by urgency. 2. Teach people time management techniques such as the Eisenhower Matrix. 3. Make your goals and deadlines clear, and get back and let them work the way they want to work. For example, I used these methods with my team and their efficiency increased on their own without my constant oversight. These empower your team so they take ownership and don’t feel as stressed and therefore produce better results.

Support an overwhelmed team by clarifying priorities, linking tasks to goals, and introducing frameworks like the Eisenhower Matrix for independent decision-making. Hold short check-ins to align on tasks and address blockers without micromanaging. Empower team members through delegation and tools like Asana for workload visibility. Be available for guidance, asking open-ended questions to encourage problem-solving. Address overload strategically by redistributing tasks, delaying non-urgent projects, or advocating for resources to prevent burnout. Foster a healthy work culture with breaks, recognition, and balanced habits. This approach builds trust, autonomy, and efficiency while ensuring the team stays focused and productive.

I would call a round table, sit down and discuss the tasks openly with the team. Then we would prioritize by importance (financial or safety) giving everyone a chance to speak. I then would have them execute their tasks the team agreed upon. This way I would just have to follow up and not micro manage my team.

It all begins with planning and ends with execution, lack of clarity is lack of planning which leads to excess tasks or slower execution resulting in overwhelming situations. Following are a few practical tips: 1. Review the plan first and the underlying tasks 2. Help the team to prioritise and make them understand urgent vs important 3. Review the deadlines and progress daily and not just on the D day 4. Understand the bottlenecks and act upon the resolution 5. Be approachable to the team and encourage them to voice the issues they face 6. Encourage proactiveness 7. Engage with team during breaks 8. Show empathy