On January 12th, CREW Boston enjoyed an in-person discussion and workshop with Dr. Camille Preston who has been researching and helping high performing leaders and teams mitigate burnout for nearly 25 years. In this workshop, she explored how to effectively manage and replenish your energetic accounts, reduce burnout, and maximize happiness for yourself and your team members.
Some key takeaways:
- Optimize your energy: no one teaches you how to do that in school. Pay attention to what energizes you vs. what depletes you.
- If you try to do everything, you end up doing nothing. You want slow, steady, consistent process when activating new skills.
- Change is hard so pick the high impact thing to do.
- Do what is in your circle of control. We spend too much time trying to drive change in areas that are outside of our control.
- When you see someone doing something well, ask them how they do it! Tap into other people rather than recreating the wheel. Engage others – what *is* working?
- Make deposits easy and start small: for example if you have decided you spend too much time on social media, perhaps you start by deleting one app.
- Build on successes – success leaves clues (learn from those around you).
Here are a few links:
Energy Audits - Fast Company blog
Resource on
Energy Management
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About Dr. Camille Preston, PhD, PPC
Dr. Camille Preston is a business psychologist and the founder and CEO of AIM Leadership—an executive leadership firm that helps drive system-level change by transforming leaders, teams, and organizations from the inside out. A recognized thought leader on virtual effectiveness and team optimization, Camille is also the author of two books, Rewired and Create More Flow, a regular contributor to Psychology Today, Fast Company, and Thrive, and a sought-after keynote speaker. Visit
www.AIMLeadership.com for free downloadable resources, and follow Camille on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/camillepreston/.
