burnout

Science shows sustained high performance hinges on healthy rest. This goes beyond improving your sleep hygiene and extends to your daily habits around breaks, disconnecting and boundary setting. Rest can take many forms and in the face of a busyness-obsessed world, we need to consciously build these into our lives to ensure our health and wellbeing. Rest forms a key second part of my burnout and prevention framework: B R N T. And it doesn't have to mean massive overhaul of

Breathe means using practices that connects you with your breath and your physical body, and that engage the parasympathetic or ‘rest and digest’ mode of your nervous system. Highly stressed or deep in burnout?  Make sure to opt for restorative practices rather than ones that exhaust you further. Here are some examples of what Breathe can look like for busy professionals. 

As workplace regulations regarding psychosocial risk mitigation are implemented around the country — Victoria being the last state to do so, with regulations taking effect on 1 December this year — discussions are tense. Leaders are nervousToday let’s explore (1) the impact of the new regulations, (2) the difference between mitigating physical and psychosocial risk , and (3) how stress management and burnout prevention programming directly contribute to meeting these new regu

Burnout prevention is a complex matter for all organizations and industries, and the legal profession throws a few extra curveballs. So, what will it take to end lawyer burnout? Before we look at solutions, let’s first unpack burnout and its root causes, then zoom in on the specific causes for lawyers and why so little seems to change in the legal profession. Finally, we’ll look at how senior leaders can start to create a burnout-free law firm culture.