Today, many companies work in what I call *Chronic urgency mode *. The mail that cannot wait, the order “for yesterday”, the improvised meeting, the feeling of being doing all day … without arriving.
This not only exhausts bodies; Wearing out links, drowning creativity, blurred strategies and leaves out the important thing: think, decide with focus, talk what hurts.
When this becomes the usual landscape, the work climate is thin, the moody grows, the leaders feel alone, people begin to get sick and not always with medical symptoms; Sometimes, it is another form of illness: reluctance, emotional disconnection, absenteeism, “empty presence.” It is emotional health that begins to fracture.
A company is not built only with processes and products is built with people. And if those people are wrong, sooner or later the business will also be. Taking care of emotional health is not a luxury: it is taking care of the most valuable one that a company has.
Recently, in a session with a manager, he told me:
“I don’t know how to stop this wheel.” They ask me all the time. I am saturated.
I proposed to stop, breathe and talk to his team, tell how he felt, ask them what they needed.
The first step was to create protocols, defined roles and action guides so that they did not depend all the time of it.
It is not magic. But it was the beginning of something different: a closer, more human leadership, which connected them with the essential.
I repeat: it’s not magic. It is a process, it requires practice, brave conversations and sustained commitment.
And you, that you are reading this …
– What kind of conversations are there in your company?
– Are you turning fires … or designing the future?
– How much do you ask how your team feels?
– If they run … Where are they really?
– How much more can this work be sustained?
Maybe it’s time to stop running.
And start putting in the center what really matters.
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