Tag burnout

How to Build a High-Performance Sales Culture Without Burning Out Your Team

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by LIZ CHRISTO DEAR STAGE 2: We’re a small team, but have plans to double the sales team this year. It feels like we have to be more intentional about our culture. How do you strike the balance between a high-performing, competitive environment and a nurturing, productive tone? ~CULTURE CONSCIOUS LEADER DEAR CULTURE-CONSCIOUS LEADER: Scaling a sales team is an exciting challenge, but it also comes with a key responsibility—building the right culture from the start. You want a team that thrives on performance but doesn’t spiral into burnout or overly competitive toxicity. So how do you strike that balance? I caught…

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Your Burnout Is Trying to Tell You Something

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by Kandi Wiens for Harvard Business Review “It’s not you. It’s your job!” That’s become one of my favorite conversation starters when my coaching clients and workshop participants tell me they’re burned out. In addition to suffering from the low energy, low motivation, and low work performance that are characteristic of burnout, many of them carry unnecessary guilt or shame, assuming they’re somehow at fault for their own work-related stress and burnout. Research has established, however, that burnout is primarily the result of psychologically hazardous factors that occur at your workplace. (So no, it isn’t just an individual problem; it’s an organizational…

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A Two-Minute Burnout Checkup

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by Chris Bailey for HBR Burnout is devastating. A few years ago, deep in the throes of it, I found myself grasping for tools or frameworks to help me get to the other side. If you’re facing a similar situation, let me share a few things I wish I had known earlier. First, I’ll outline the basics about the signs of burnout and the aspects of our work that tend to cause it. Second, I’ll share a two-minute burnout checkup I created to monitor my own mental well-being and to make sure I don’t reach the point of burning out…

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