Managing people is hard.  You have to manage time, function, effort, and problems…both your employees and your own.  Having a Human Resources partner can help with managing your biggest asset, your people.  Working is stressful, whether it’s deadlines, money, customers, orders, etc., it puts pressure on all of us.  When that pressure hits a certain point, we tend to lose effectiveness.  Here is a great article from CBSnews online about coping at WORK.  Give it a read, and then post how you cope with stress at work.  What helps you, or your employees?  Have a pool table in the office?  Foosball? Ping Pong?  Let us know, and lets talk about how to releave stress and improve productivity.