Why Every Leader NEEDS To TAKE VACATION SERIOUSLY

I told one of my employees one time, her name was Jackie Logan, we had a vacation policy of five weeks paid vacation. It was use it or lose it. So at the end of the 12 month period, if you hadn't used all five weeks, you lost it. We wanted people to take every one of those 25 days off because there's no way you can lead the business area of 70 people when you're burned out, when you're stressed out. And there's no way that we're creating a good kind of harmonious work life balance culture. When the leader's a workaholic and all of your direct reports think the only way they can do well in their life is for them to be a workaholic. So if you don't take every one of the vacation days, you're fired. And every week in our one on ones, you and I are going to look at your calendar and make sure that you have the vacation days booked and make sure that you're taking them. Jackie started to cry. Not because she was worried, because nobody had ever cared about her taking time off, nobody had ever focused on her taking time off. Nobody had ever cared for her work life balance before.