Exhausted, overwhelmed, void of passion for our work. Burnout is no joke, and it happens to even the most experienced businesspeople! Here are my top tips for healing and—most importantly—preventing burnout.
Top Tips for Beating Burnout
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Scott Patchin
3 Tips to Encourage Your Team to Establish Their Own Rocks
Cascading EOS is about completing three main tasks: teaching the tools to your team, coaching them through barriers they encounter when using the tools, and ultimately watching them become such experts they can go through...
2022 “Serve First” Donation Wrap-up
When I did my own VTO 6 years ago I defined 4 core values: Serve First, Kindness Matters, Get it done, and Learning+Doing=Growth. This program emerged when I created a 10-year target to give away 20% of my revenue as a way of living my Serve First value. Through Serve...
Why Every Member of Your Team Should Lead
If I asked you to draw me a picture of a leader, you might pull together a confident and commanding CEO running a meeting, a press conference, or a standup with a group of people. Leaders tend to stand out for how they carry themselves, what they wear, and certainly...
A Different Approach to Onboarding From Day One
I had the delightful opportunity to chat with Kelly Plawinski, the COO and EOS Integrator at Adamy Valuation. Adamy is a financial services firm based out of Grand Rapids MI that serves business owners, legal experts,...
One Word That Improves All Leaders
Love. This word can mean a lot of different things to people. For many of us, it has deep roots that take us back to our childhood, current and past relationships, and even the media bombards us with mixed messages about...
STOP Going Through The Motions in Quarterlies: 3 Tips to Make Them Matter
I’ve facilitated hundreds of quarterlies throughout my EOS career. It’s pretty obvious when a leader is going through the motions of EOS but isn’t pushing it to its full potential. You follow the agenda (or not), or you focus on getting...
Why Delegating is a Vital Skill in Business
If you aren’t comfortable passing work off to members of your team, now is the time to start getting used to the idea. Many leaders are exhausted by all the work on their plate, and it’s easy to get overwhelmed by a mountainous to-do list....
Need more trust? Use gratitude to build a stronger team.
As leaders, the phrase "employee engagement and retention" is repeated often. So often that I would argue that we get lost in the slogan and the formal programs or initiatives that happen, forgetting about a simple action that we can do to...
Onboarding New Leaders into EOS
Preface: I have a great passion for this topic. It ties directly to the first Core Focus I wrote over: “My passion is to maximize growth and minimize pain to help leaders move to, and past, the tipping point of success.” It also comes from the fact that I have...
Tips for Collaborating: Boards & Leadership Teams
Some organizations, especially those with a board of directors, may ask themselves: Is EOS really the best option for us? How does it work in an organizational structure with a board? The answer is, it works great! Let me be clear, EOS is...
How to Become the Best Integrator-Visionary Dynamic Duo
I just returned from my quarterly meeting with all of my fellow EOS Implementers. My single biggest takeaway? How much effort has gone into the tools helping Integrators develop as leaders and build an incredibly strong Visionary/Integrator relationship. In EOS, the...