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4 Types of Intuition Leaders Use for Decision Making
Learn about four kinds of intuition used by leaders and managers to aid in decision-making. Expert intuition, creative intuition, social intuition, and temporal intuition are useful types to be aware of and to add to any leader’s toolkit.
Who is to blame when someone burns out?
Learn about the three contexts that affect burnout and work-related well-being: macro systems, organizational culture and structure, and personal factors. All are interdependent and together create a confluence of conditions that perpetuates burnout.
A Framework for Downshifting and Recharging
Learn the 4 principles of downshifting and recharging
Two Key Questions for Work-Life Satisfaction
It’s important for high-ambition, mission-driven millennial and gen z leaders to pause for some perspective when they’ve been pushing for a while. Use these questions whenever you are feeling a bit drained on a regular basis. Your answers will help you chart a path back to full energy and enjoyment of your work and life.
Inconsistent Leadership and Employee Strain
Leaders need to know that their behavior under stress is noticed by employees and impacts them. A research study demonstrates that employees perceive differences in their direct supervisor’s behavior under stressful and routine circumstances. The higher degree of leadership inconsistency, the more strain the employees reported.
The hectic pace of work can cause even the most mission-driven leader to feel disconnected from meaningful work. Take a quick quiz to see if you are starting to feel drained by your work. Use this quiz with your team.
Learn about Flow at work, where it comes from, why it is important for leaders, and how to find it more often.
Learn to recognize the surprising precursors of burnout. See how they start subtle and progress into burnout. The antidote to burnout is Self-reverence. Burnout and Self-reverence are mutually exclusive. Leaders who are Self-reverent, can’t be burned out and vice versa.
How to Know When You’re Ready to Hire an Executive Coach
Before you spend time finding the right executive coach and invest your money in their services, make sure that you are actually ready for coaching. Take this quick quiz to see if coaching is the right next step for your professional development.
Professional Callings: identification, myths, risks, and research
Purpose-driven leaders and other mission-oriented achievers can identify whether or not they have a calling as opposed to a career or job. Learn about the myths around callings as well as the downsides. Researchers have studied callings and share some results.
When Leaders Work While Sick, So Do Their Staff
Research finds that leader presenteeism (i.e., working while sick) predicts employee presenteeism. Leaders can use their role model status to influence staff to take time off when needed.
6 Social Media Approaches for Strategic Leaders
Learn to use the right approach for your tactical communication needs with this research-based framework.
The Feeling of Not Living Up to Your Potential
Learn about existential guilt and two things you can do about it.
Insights on Meaningful and Meaningless Work
Leaders can pay attention to the language people use when talking about their work in order to infer how they are feeling about it.
Is it burnout or something else?
By some estimates, at least 25% of people reporting workplace-related burnout might actually be suffering from moral injury.
Embodied leadership is a concept fundamental to executive presence. Learn about how your relationship to your body matters for your leadership.