Tag: Employee Encouragement

‘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

How To Lead So That People Will Follow You

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Great leaders have followers. Poor leaders have themselves.

The question is, according to Erika Andersen, ‘What is it … that makes someone willing to consider one person his or her leader but not another?’

‘A truly farsighted leader envisions a possible future that responds to and resonates with people’s aspirations for their individual and collective success. … True visionaries often see possibilities where others see difficulty and dead-ends.’

‘People who work with a passionate leader don’t wonder what she stands for or whether she will abandon her principles when the going gets rough.’

‘When the leader commits honestly, based on his or her authentic beliefs about what’s important, people tend to feel it and be drawn into new levels of engagement.’

‘When people observe their leader behaving courageously over time, they are much more willing to follow him or her into new territory. … When the leader lacks courage, people feel as though they need to protect themselves.’

‘When others see that you’re willing to do something that could damage you personally in order to support the success of the organization, they are hugely more likely to line up behind you.’

‘When leaders are wise, we see that they’re considering our welfare and that they’ll do their best to make sure that the enterprise succeeds in a way that supports the success of the greatest possible number of us, their followers.’

‘A leader who is fully generous shares both the power to make decisions and the responsibility for dealing with the consequences of those decisions.’

‘The trustworthy leader tells the truth and keeps her word. She speaks the whole truth (sometimes omission is as much a lie as an outright misstatement) and even tells the truth about not being able to tell the truth.’

‘When a leader is worthy of trust, people reward him or her by becoming more trustworthy themselves. Trust is the essential bond between a true leader and her followers.’

‘Trustworthy leaders are competent. They demonstrate the capability to do the job they have been given (and are honest about any deficits in that regard and how they’ll go about addressing them), and they get the results they’ve committed to achieving.’

Source

Erika Andersen (2012). Leading So People Will Follow