A leader's gratitude rewires brains from stressed to energetic. Acknowledging contributions increases engagement, trust, and retention while reducing burnout and lifting team energy.
Gratitude strengthens relationships. As a leader, it helps you really express the contribution that your team members are making, and therefore, whether it's individually or as a collective team, it's increasing team engagement, it's increasing trust, it's increasing respect, it's increasing retention. It has tremendous power in gratitude. And it rewires the brain. If you think about it, when all of a sudden, if you're not in the best state of mind and someone comes along and gives you that attaboy, gives you that great job, gives you a star, so to speak. Well, it rewires your brain from maybe a drained, stressed, negative state of being into more positive, energetic. And productive energy. And therefore, if you are finding yourself or someone else feeling just absolutely drained out, burned out, stressed out, then a little sharing, an expression of gratitude can just totally shift that individual's attitude. I,
From Stuck to Leading, Episode 2 — Meet the 5 Inner Fears Destroying Your Leadership
