Soultuitive Leaders With Clare Josa

Do you secretly cringe when you hear the word 'resilient'? But you need your team to be resilient, rather than falling apart at the slightest knock. What can you do to lead your way through the resilience backlash, why has it become such a dirty word, and what's the antidote?

In today's episode we'll cover:

• Why there's a not-so-quiet backlash against resilience
• How resilience becomes toxic
• Why this is one of the two biggest predictors of burnout
• The 3 pillars of burnout & how they contribute to toxic resilience
• What's the antidote? And how could you make a start on that today?

Resources from today's episode:

1. Experience the Natural Resilience Method® for yourself with my free course: the Natural Resilience Method® Kickstart
2. Make sure you've subscribed to this podcast to be the first to hear when our Burnout Prevention Toolkit goes live - there's a version for employees and one for line managers and leaders
3. Take my burnout scorecard, to get your overall risk score, your score again each of the 3 pillars, and a personalised action plan
4. Read the latest research in our 2022 Burnout Research Study white paper
5. Change your life forever, with near-zero effort, in just ten minutes a day, even if you hate meditating: Meditation, Made Easy
6. Want to talk about working together to make toxic resilience a thing of the past in your organisation? Here's where to book a call to talk about using the Natural Resilience Method® and The HOPE Matrix® to create cultural, environmental and habit-based change.

Join In The Discussion:

Here's where we're talking about this episode, and toxic resilience in general, on LinkedIn.

72% of line managers in our current research study say they don't feel confident giving feedback, and only 7% of line managers said their employer had ever given them training on how to deliver feedback in ways that are safe and that inspire performance improvements.

So it's no wonder we leave it until December.

This episode is for you if you're up for taking the next step towards mastery in your feedback skills, you're on a mission to inspire and empower your teams, but you secretly dread December's annual appraisals.

What we'll cover today:

1. the little-known truth about how most managers feel about feedback
2. why some people thrive on feedback and others dread it
3. what our research shows about how our inner attitude, as leaders, impacts the effectiveness of the feedback
4. the tangible risks of sub-standard feedback
5. why we need to ditch the 360 degree performance review
6. simple things we can start today, to make feedback something people value and even look forward to

Resources from today's episode:

Take the feedback mastery scorecard to get your score on the 3 pillars of feedback, plus a personalised action plan.

Read: How to handle performance review anxiety (even if you're the one giving the feedback!)

Read: Ditching Imposter Syndrome

Heads-up: audiobook version coming very, very soon.

Clear your feedback baggage with my inspirational hybrid coaching programme: The Imposter Syndrome Bootcamp™

Get on the waiting list for the next round of my Feedback Mastery Workshop

Join In The Discussion:

Here's where we're talking about today's episode, over on LinkedIn.

23% of UK employees considered quitting due to burnout in the past week. As a line manager or leader, it's essential that we can spot the warning signs, and know what to do about it, to prevent it. But there's a problem: psychological safety at work legislation creates a paradox that can unintentionally undermine our burnout prevention efforts.

Here's what you'll discover in today's Soultuitive® Leaders podcast episode:

1. the paradox of how psychological safety at work can actually undermine burnout prevention, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea
2. How burnout affects individuals, teams, organisations and home life - warning signs for line managers and leaders
3. Why this paradox only exists because we're fixing the wrong thing with both burnout and psychological safety at work
4. Why the solution lies in deeply addressing the three pillars of burnout
5. Simple actions you can take today to turn this around, more quickly and easily than you might imagine

Here are the resources I mention in today's episode:

• Take the burnout scorecard - and get a free personalised action plan
• Take the feedback mastery scorecard
• Read: Burnout research white paper
• Read: Advice guide - how to have the Imposter Syndrome discussion
• Take my Natural Resilience Method® Kickstart course - it's free
• Fast-track: Natural Resilience Method Bootcamp - work with one of my certified coaches and create life-changing burnout breakthroughs in the next six weeks.
• Book a call - let's talk about how we could work together to make burnout a thing of the past in your organisation

And here's where we're talking about this, over on LinkedIn. I'd love to get to join in the discussion with you.

Today's episode is for you, if burnout is on your radar - whether it's for yourself, or whether it's for team members. If you've found it almost impossible to get people to 'hit the ground running' in January, this episode is going to guide you through:

• How to spot the warning signs
• Why most of what we're doing to prevent burnout at work is back-to-front, accidentally fixing the wrong thing
• And practical things you can do today, to turn this around

Resources from this episode:

• Burnout risk scorecard - get your score and personalised action plan - free - here now
• Burnout & Imposter Syndrome white paper
• Book a call to discuss how I can support your organisation in truly preventing burnout

Join In The Conversation:

Here's where we're talking about this episode, over on LinkedIn.

One of the things I'm asked most often by leaders, at the end of a keynote, is how to bring up the subject of Imposter Syndrome with a colleague or team member - and then what to do to help them.

It's so easy to freeze, or talk ourselves out of broaching it, or worry that the other person will react badly, or that we won't know what to say or do next...

... So we avoid it. And that leaves the person stuck. It perpetuates the taboo. And we feel bad, because we wanted to make a difference.

So in today's Soul Led Leaders podcast episode I'm going to share with you what you can do, mistakes to avoid, and how to find out what to do to move beyond 'tea and sympathy' if you've got it right and the person wants help.

In today's episode of the Soul Led Leaders podcast, you'll discover:

• Why we bottle it!
• The risks of getting it wrong
• The two things you must (I don't use that word lightly!) do, before you take that deep breath and leap in
• How to start the conversation
• The five super-common mistakes to avoid
• And how to actually help the person to turn things around

Show notes and the gift PDF training I mention are here: soulledleaders.fm/27/

As people are heading back into the office, bringing with them the impact of 18+ months of chronic stress, anxiety, and burnout warning signs, there has never been a more important time to proactively support mental health in the workplace.

In fact, in the near future, UK employers will be required to take action to create a culture that supports psychological and emotional wellbeing.

But is training up Mental Health First-Aiders enough? And why might that be leaving things too late?

In this episode of the Soul-Led Leaders podcast, you'll discover:

• Why Mental Health First-Aiders are a great initiative
• But how these MHFAs are having their remit stretched beyond what is safe
• What's missing from most organisations' mental health strategies
• How the three pillars of burnout unlock the key to preventing the vast majority of mental health crises
• And the one question that all employers need to ask themselves, to figure out what to do next

Show notes and resources are at https://www.soulledleaders.fm/26/

Imposter Syndrome First-Aider training can be found here: https://www.clarejosa.com/firstaider/

Do you feel like you're running on empty, and that nothing seems to top up your batteries any more? Is it getting harder to concentrate and easier to make mistakes?

Do you find your fuse is shorter than ever and that smaller things are stressing you out? And if one more person tells you to be resilient they might find that the 'bouncing back' is at the end of your virtual fist? You are not alone!

In this episode of the Soul Led Leaders podcast you'll discover why, far from being the antidote to burnout, classic resilience actually causes it, and the five-step solution we need, instead.

• What burnout is - and what it isn't
• Why it's not a sign of weakness
• The three pillars of burnout
• The problem with classic resilience and why it's not the antidote to burnout
• Insider secret: how classic resilience causes burnout
• Why the opposite of being burnt out is not turning into a couch potato
• The five-step solution we need instead

Show notes & additional resources: www.ClareJosa.com/soulledleaders/25/

Joanna is a champion of the cause to remove 'extraversion bias' from organisations. She has seen first-hand how it can undermine engagement, productivity and performance, as well as impacting mental health.

In her interview, she'll be covering the myths about introversion and why this is so vital for hybrid working, how to include introverts naturally, and how to enable introverts to play to their strengths.

• The myths and misconceptions around introversion
• A tale of two lockdowns
• Understanding what hybrid means to different personality types and why they will have preferences
• What we can do to make the working environment introvert-friendly
• We've got to stop judging introverts!
• Avoiding FOMO with team building
• Brilliant battery boosters for hybrid-working introverts

Show notes & additional resources: http://www.clarejosa.com/soulledleaders/24/

HR Directors are telling me that burnout is one of their biggest concerns for the rest of 2021. Companies are trying everything from wellbeing days to free mindfulness app subscriptions to beanbags in meeting rooms, but they're not seeing results.

In this episode, you'll discover why. And what we need to be doing, instead.

Today's Soul Led Leaders episode is taken from a masterclass I ran in June 2021 and in it you will learn:

• 5 hidden ways that Imposter Syndrome leads to burnout - and how to spot the early warning signs
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• Why the 'bridge of coping strategies' approach falls apart in times of change - and what you need to be doing instead
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• Clare's favourite 'Emergency Quick Fix' strategy to help you to reset your stress response in under sixty seconds
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• Why 'resilience' is such a dirty word - one that makes your teams want to throw rotten tomatoes at you
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• How Clare's 5-step Natural Resilience Method™ can slash stress levels, boost confidence, and prevent burnout, in ways that are fast, fun and forever

And I can't wait to hear what your 'next 24 hour action' is - all will become clear!

Show notes and additional resources: www.clarejosa.com/soulledleaders/23/

A senior consultant specialising in internal communications and managing change, Annique Simpson is passionate about creating true inclusion by helping make sure we "listen with the intention of taking action".

In this inspirational interview, she shares the practicalities of how to do this, as a leader or line manager, how to avoid the common pitfalls, and how to make sure people don't feel they have to vote with their feet, to make their voice heard. We're talking about:

What We Cover In This Interview:

• Who is really controlling the hybrid employee experience
• The vital importance of employee voice - and how to hear it
• How leadership's priority needs to be engaging with employees to design in work-life balance
• How to connect with people who aren't in the building
• How to predict and avoid the unintended consequences of decisions

Shownotes and more: http://www.clarejosa.com/soulledleaders/22/