Tag: Healthy Culture

‘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

‘Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them. But the healthy ones tap into almost all of it.’

‘At the heart of vulnerability lies the willingness of people to abandon their pride and their fear, to sacrifice their egos for the collective good of the team.’

‘When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, and attempt to find the best possible answer.’

‘If an organization is tolerant of everything, it stands for nothing.’

‘When leadership team members avoid discomfort among themselves, they only transfer it in far greater quantities to larger groups of people throughout the organization they’re supposed to be serving.’

‘Peer-to-peer accountability is the primary and most effective source of accountability on a leadership team.’

‘No matter how good a leadership team feels about itself, and how noble its mission might be, if the organization it leads rarely achieves its goals, then, by definition, it’s simply not a good team.’

‘Teams that lead healthy organizations come to terms with the difficult but critical requirement that its members must put the needs of the higher team ahead of the needs of their departments.’

‘More than getting the right answer, it’s often more important to simply have an answer– one that is directionally correct and around which all team members can commit.’

‘Employees in every organization, and at every level, need to know that at the heart of what they do lies something grand and aspirational.’

‘An organization’s strategy is nothing more than the collection of intentional decisions a company makes to give itself the best chance to thrive and differentiate from competitors.’

Source

Patrick Lencioni (2012). The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business