Build A Strategic Engagement Plan: Avoid Stress and Burnout Of Your Executive Team

Some leaders are so motivating, setting such a great example and operate at such high functioning levels that they don’t see negatives of positive leadership until it’s too late.
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March 11, 2010 - PRLog -- Some leaders are so motivating, setting such a great example and operate at such high functioning levels that they don’t always see the negatives of positive leadership until it’s too late.

Negatives of positive leadership?  What kind of double talk is that!?!  

It turns out, that’s not double talk at all.  Michael Hahn, CEO and Founder of Beyond the Good Life can explain.

“There’s a client of mine who is an excellent leader.  She’s caring, supportive and assists her executive team with goal setting without placing outrageous expectations on them.  That’s all well and good, but only recently has she discovered that the example she’s setting is causing her team members to place unreasonable expectations on themselves in order to please her.  That’s not what she intended” says Michael.

A great team will often do everything they can to please a supportive and caring leader.  This creates the rather unique problem of self-imposed burnout due to prolonged levels of high stress.  Leaders responsible for sustaining high performance must have effective stress release valves in place.

Michael suggests building a strategic engagement plan that openly recognizes and appreciates the work load controlled by your C-Level team.  “Most people already have the ability to control the release valve that integrates their home and work life, they’re just not aware of it.  Through hobbies and down time, most executives exercise an innate homeopathic process that reduces stress and feels good too.”

To help business owners, CEO’s, CFO’s, CMO’s (Chief Marketing Officer), CLO’s (Chief Learning Officer), and other highly responsible leaders get control of and reduce stress related burnout within their executive teams, Michael took a look at several different companies.  By studying employers of choice who still, despite the great recession, hold a competitive advantage by engaging their leadership teams, Michael was able to create the Stress Resiliency and Strategic Games retreats.

Most often facilitated as off-site events, these retreats are designed to get leaders out of the workplace and into a new, non-threatening environment.  Michael calls it a ‘Shift Experience’.  

Michael clarifies, “During the retreat we explore the signal feelings both emotionally and physically that are the warnings that stress levels are no longer controlled.  We discover what methods people are or maybe aren’t using to control that stress valve and then help them learn how to control the integration of work and home life.”

The outcome created by the Stress Resiliency and Strategic Games retreats is three fold.
1)   Recognize how and when control of stress is lost
2)   Recognize how, through their homeopathic process, control is regained
3)   Recognize how through that process, they become fully recharged
These are the building blocks for your strategic engagement plan.

Michael points out that many professionals are pointing out the need to recover as the past 18 months to two years have been very detrimental to employee engagement.

“In her article, ‘Staff Turnover Tipped To Soar During Recovery’, Principal Psychologist Alison Skate of Personnel Development Solutions says that lack of employee engagement has been found to be directly linked to decreases in sales and productivity, more workplace accidents and higher voluntary turnover of staff.”  http://quest-news.whereilive.com.au/your-news/story/staff...

Dr. Skate’s article also pointed out that among top influences for employee’s reasons to leave included leadership policies and behavior such as poor communication and inadequate recognition.

Michael points out that through these retreats leaders learn that lasting change requires communication.  By dealing with self imposed stress, difficulties with change, instabilities of teams and even improving the management of interpersonal relationships, your executives regain control.  More control leads to increased confidence and alignment, faster decision making and bottom-line profits.

The negatives of positive leadership are recognized, addressed and restored resulting in integrated control of stress and reduced risk of executive burnout.

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For more information on this press release or on team relationship coaching programs produced by Beyond The Good Life contact Michael Hahn, CEO and Founder.  Via email, michael@beyondthegoodlife.com or, via phone 630.985.8065.

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