Redefining Success: Prioritizing Well-being in the Workplace

🔑 Wellbeing is not about luxuries, but about the daily decisions we make, especially during challenging times.

🚫 Setting boundaries and making time for rest is crucial during difficult periods.

💪 Facing cancer can be an opportunity for personal growth and becoming a better leader.

🔑 The speaker shares her personal journey of overcoming burnout and cancer to become a better leader.

🗣️ She discusses the misconception of equating overworking with success and the lack of role models for work-life balance.

😔 The speaker highlights the signs of burnout, including exhaustion, emotional instability, and losing oneself.

🔑 Burnout is a distinct condition without a concrete medical diagnosis, often overlooked or questioned.

💡 Many believe that burnout can be solved by resting or taking a vacation, but it should be treated as seriously as cancer in the workplace.

🌟 Quitting isn't the solution to burnout; creating a better work environment is the key to addressing it.

✨ Work has a significant impact on our well-being, and burnout is not a personal weakness.

⏰ Technology has created a 24-hour work cycle and a fear of missing out, undermining efficiency.

💪 The belief that overworking is the only path to success is flawed, and we should prioritize working well.

Taking care of yourself is crucial for success.

The skills needed for great leadership are changing.

Productivity should not be the only measure of well-being.

💼 Companies should invest in creating cultures of human sustainability.

🤝 Servant leadership should prioritize self-care as a skill set.

🌍 Well-being at work requires systemic solutions and challenging outdated norms.

🌍 Work needs to be co-created by everyone for the betterment of society and the environment.

⏳ The current working conditions may be viewed negatively in the future, similar to how we see the industrial Revolution now.

🚀 Our future generations will recognize this time as a turning point where we prioritized well-being and made it a central focus in our work.