WHAT IF THE NEW NORMAL IS BETTER?

May 12

Written By Jeanette Bronée | Culture Strategist | Global Keynote Speaker | Author

The way we have been working isn’t working, when 50% of the workforce leave their job because of stress and 78% say they are working on the edge of burnout. And that was before COVID.

The reality is that the old normal wasn’t working for us as human beings, because we were stuck in human doing who were just working harder to work faster and we were on the edge of exhaustion and burnout instead of focusing on working better so we can be on the edge of innovation, connection and the kind of communication that breeds a healthy culture.

OF COURSE IT’S NOT THAT SIMPLE.

The challenge for the modern leader is to support people in doing their best work. Too many companies are struggling with a culture running on stress, leadership fatigue, team-disengagement, burnout and talent-loss, instead of a culture that is built on self-care where people work healthy, feel that they matter and want to engage.

Rethinking what it means to cultivate a human-driven culture is to understand what it means to cultivate a care-driven culture.

The shift we are seeing is towards a healthy culture built on healthy relationships and the old model, where we ignore our human needs to keep up, is falling. It is no longer sustainable to accept performance as just pushing harder and harder to do more and more and putting ourselves last. It is no longer a system that work, because we create a burnout culture, that breeds disengagement, unhappiness and unhealth instead of a culture that grows resilience, engagement and connection.

We need to build systems that’s regenerative rather than exhausting and a culture that’s built on trust and a safe environment for everyone to thrive, a culture where people want to work because they care about the work, the people and themselves, - that’s a Culture of Care® where the relationship we have with ourselves becomes a healthy relationship with both work and others.

A culture change starts with the tools we are giving people to have a better relationship they have with themselves, which is why self-care tools matter more than ever.