Leaders should check their team's workload before assigning new tasks and help prioritize when everyone is stretched thin. The strategy relies on honest talk about capacity and protecting time for recovery to prevent burnout.
So this week, what I would love for you to do is initiate a conversation about sustainable pace and workload. This doesn't mean that you're necessarily, you know, putting the brakes on everything and, you know, everybody is getting time off and massive bonuses. That's not what we're looking for here. OK, what we're looking for is I want to talk to you about how we're managing workload and pace together. Here's what I'm committed to. I'm gonna communicate my capacity honestly before I hit the wall or before I push through something. I really want to respect the boundaries that we have as a team. And here's what I need for you. Check my current workload before adding on new requests or help me prioritize what matters most when we're all at capacity. If you're modeling some of that language and if you're, if you're the leader, you would flip it. So it would be, I wanna talk to you about how we're managing workload and pace together. Here's what I'm committing to. I'm gonna check your capacity before I'm adding work to you. I'm also going to help prioritize so that you're not always feeling like you are on, you know, 100%. I want you to also have your recovery time so that you actually have the time to recover so you can keep going at the pace that we're at. So can you hear that language? How when we communicate honestly and when we talk about, hey, you know what,
From Stuck to Leading, Episode 2 — Meet the 5 Inner Fears Destroying Your Leadership
