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

By integrating the four components of B R N T into your life, you are actively prioritizing your own wellbeing in a way that can help burnout prevention, as it supports you to make choices to avoid the chronic workplace stress that causes burnout. And, if your spark has already been extinguished, you can use B R N T to chart a powerful path towards healing and evolving out of burnout.

Balancing the need to drive results with the desire to genuinely care for your people can feel like a tightrope walk. And it’s a challenge many leaders are grappling with today. It might seem like employee wellbeing and a healthy bottom line are competing priorities. And yet the latest data shows that nurturing your team’s wellbeing is the most direct path to unlocking greater profitability.

Research for my first book surfaced the ‘3-Selfs’ as a powerful framework for burnout prevention at an individual level. The 3-Selfs is about intentionally, consistently and uncompromisingly prioritizing individual health and wellbeing, with a view to preventing burnout.

Emotions are essential biological states. They are healthy and can be wise guides on our life path. But emotions have a bad reputation. Especially at work. For a long time, emotions were frowned upon as a sign of weakness, fragility or hysteria. They were viewed as embarrassing or shameful — the antithesis of science and reason. In fact, successful leadership and general personal happiness both hinge on us seeing emotions as normal and helpful, and tapping into them to our ad

Human connection is as essential to our survival as food and water. We are deeply social beings. And yet, we are often so focused on work that we allow our relationships and sense of community to slip down our to-do list, leaving us feeling isolated, unsupported, and even unsafe. Preventing burnout means resisting the temptation to let your important relationships go untended, and making a conscious effort to foster and maintain your own community — whatever that looks like.

this tip is not about body image or what is on the outside. It’s about tuning into the inner experience of your body. Because when you are subject to the chronic workplace stress that causes burnout, your body will eventually start sending up signals that things are NOT OK and you need to STOP AND HEAL.

Our focus, or our attention, is precious. We need it to learn and work effectively, make healthy decisions, feel a state of flow, avoid errors, build relationships and solve issues. We need attention to do everything that has consequences, and to feel that we are living authentic to ourselves. Allowing our attention to be driven by external factors disconnects us from ourselves, puts us on a fast track to exhaustion, and eventually burns us out.