I am a new manager, and I am STRUGGLING. It's a ton of work, and I can't seem to keep my team motivated. We are on a very stressful project. I empathize with them and see them setting the boundaries – I don't blame them. But It feels like an impossible situation now that I'm in a management position. How do I make this work? I don't want to become a toxic manager, but I don't know how to be effective in this environment anymore.

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That is tough. I work at a fairly large company. Some things that we do to keep morale up is celebrating employee birthday on a quarterly basis and doing a quarterly team engagement. We still have a ton of work but the forced fun seems to be paying off.

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