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
Identifying Your Authentic Motivation to Achieve
Learn about the 10 sources of healthy, authentic motivation: competition, curiosity, fun, helping others, material rewards, purpose, recognition, self-mastery, social connection, and structure. Explore whether you are using a motivation that is inauthentic to you and draining your energy.
Reasons People Don’t Use All Their PTO and 5 Tips for Taking It
Learn the reasons people don’t use all their PTO, according to a recent Pew Research Center poll. Leaders, use these 5 tips if you resist taking your own time off. And use these suggestions to help your staff take their own time off.
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.
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.
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.
A Quiz to Measure Your Stress Level
This 10-question assessment quickly measures your perceived stress level. It’s been research validated and is easy for individuals to take themselves or for executive and burnout coaches to use with clients.
The Feeling of Not Living Up to Your Potential
Learn about existential guilt and two things you can do 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.
The Matches Measure, An Easy Tool to Assess Burnout
The “Matches Measure” is an easy, yet research-validated assessment tool for measuring burnout.
Leadership Identity and Behaviors from Unplugging
On nights when leaders were able to disconnect mentally and behaviorally from work, the next day: they were more energized and felt more connected to their leadership role and their staff viewed them as more effective leaders.
Free Meditations for Your Hectic Workday
Listen to quick, workday-specific guided meditations for free.
A Tool for Assessing Well-Being
A tool to use to check in on satisfaction with life.