Tag: Healthy Life

‘How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, And Overload To Find True Success’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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When you manage yourself, you manage your life. When you manage your life, you manage yourself.

When you can manage yourself, then, only then, can you manage your work.

To overcome stress, guilt, and overload, according to Meghan French Dunbar,

‘A holistic approach blending numerous healthy ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ traits has been proven to be far more effective, driving better employee engagement and retention; decreasing the likelihood of burnout; increasing employees’ feeling of thriving outside work; building more trust with the team; and increasing innovation, creativity, and team member growth.’

‘Before heading into significant meetings, presentations, events, or even one-on-one conversations, review your values and reflect on how they could guide you in this interaction.’

‘Cultivating authentic leadership means doing the work necessary to feel comfortable in your own skin– to value the experience regardless of who else is in the room and offer it freely, knowing that it benefits you and those around you.’

‘When following the crowd means stifling your truth, compromising your values, or holding your true self back, you’ll never be able to fully step into your authentic power.’

‘Trying to assimilate by changing yourself has been linked to loss of identity and increased depression, mental illness, burnout, and chronic disease.’

‘… If you regularly give your limited energy to things that fall outside what you claim to value, you can’t genuinely live according to your values.’

‘Optimized leaders understand that being overextended, stressed, or depleted stands in the way of being their best selves.’

‘When you’re exhausted, depleted, and overextended, you can’t tune into yourself and show up with intention.’

‘Difficult as it might be, part of optimizing yourself might be releasing people from your life who aren’t aligned with your values; consistently drain your energy, feel exploitative; lead to frequent unnecessary drama…’

‘When you insist on controlling everything in your life ... you put unnecessary stress on yourself and deny the people around you the opportunity to step up and grow.’

Source

Meghan French Dunbar (2025). This Isn’t Working: How Working Women Can Overcome Stress, Guilt, and Overload to Find True Success

Creating A High-Performance Culture

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Our job is to develop healthy employees who bring energy to work. That’s the only way the corporation can survive.’

They don’t need more money. They need more love, kindness, and respect.

‘… a new vision for built environments as places that increase and protect the health of those who occupy them every day.’

When you take care of them, when you see them as human beings, they will take care of your environment.

‘The real war is leadership engagement. It is fought to win the hearts and minds of employees.’

If you don’t care about your environment, your people won’t care. If you want them to care, you care first.

‘Workplace that is easy to use understand, navigate, and use sends a definite message, ‘We value and want to support your role in our organization.’

People want to be appreciated. They want you to see them. If you can do that, your culture will take care of itself.

‘Leaders have to care, and they can’t care for people they don’t know.’

If you want your people to follow you, to bring their best selves to work, you must get to know them. Not for what they can do for you, but for who they are.

‘We have the opportunity to restore human dignity through good work.’

As a leader, your number one job is to take care of your people. It is to make them feel better about themselves. It is not to bring them down, but to lift them up.

‘If someone’s environment is going to drammatically impact their health, productivity, and retention- that is where I would focus.’

Yes, you are right. Because health is everything. If you don’t have it, the rest doesn’t really matter.

‘Delivering a healthy building and one that transforms your culture and business may sound daunting, but is very achievable, increasingly necessary, and suprisingly economical.’

You don’t transform your building by adding more things. You transform your building by creating a positive environment.

‘You are far better using the top strengths to develop alternate strategies than trying to improve a strength low on the list.’

Success happens when you are not trying to be who you are not. Failure happens when you are trying to be who are not.

‘Healthy cultures adapt, bounce back, learn, let go, cooperate across departments, serve one another, and add value to the whole. Conversely, unhealthy cultures are sclerotic, prescriptive, political, and rigidly infallible.’

A healthy culture doesn’t happen by accident. It is the work of a great leader, a leader who wants others to learn better, work better, and live better.

Source:

Rex Miller, Phillip Williams, and Dr. Michael O’Neill (2018). The Healthy Workplace Hudge: How Healthy People, Culture, and Buildings Lead to High Performance