In a world where burnout is all too common, establishing healthy practices to balance the pressures of work and home is essential for anyone seeking sustainable professional success. With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, it’s a good time for leaders to consider the tone they’re setting, how it impacts team members’ well-being, and how that might ultimately affect retention and the bottom line.
Promoting work-life balance as a leader entails more than offering perks and creating policies—it’s also about setting cultural standards that value well-being and productivity equally.
Click here to gain insights and read tips from Forbes Coaches Council coaches as they share tips to help leaders promote work-life balance throughout their organizations and cultivate thriving, balanced workplaces.
Our CEO Lisa Christen‘s tip was featured:
Reframe Balance As A Performance Strategy
Work-life balance isn’t a perk—it’s a performance strategy. As a leader, you set the tone by how you work, rest and respond. If you glorify burnout, your team will mimic it. If you normalize and encourage boundaries, your team will trust that model. A team will follow what you do, not what you say. The most powerful signal? Showing that recovery isn’t the opposite of performance—it’s what fuels it.
Lisa Christen, CEO, Christen Coaching & Consulting