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Burnout: The personal contribution

Our previous article How should Your Organisation Respond to Burnout raises questions to examine how, organisationally, you can raise awareness of, and begin to address, many of the systemic factors which contribute to burnout.
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How should your organisation respond to burnout?

Burnout is now so widespread that there should be few companies who haven’t yet discussed how best to support their employees to avoid it. But what exactly does it mean? And what should companies be doing about it?
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Podcast

Cary Cooper podcast – The Gender Promotion Gap

“I have a couple of areas that trouble me. One area is, young people learn from the experience of older people. Some people will almost go too heavy on flexible working, and say to young recruits “Yeah, you work from home, come in one day a week”. When actually they need to be there more often, because that's where they learn. From people who do come in, the experienced people. They don't have to be there every day.
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Sahar Hashemi podcast
– The Importance of Being Clueless

“We went round to people in the industry, we went to people who were already selling coffee machines. People who had been selling coffee beans to these sandwich bars. Everyone told us “You can never open a coffee bar in the UK. Coffee bars will never work. We’ve had generations of experience in this world. This is England. People are not going to drink half caff decaff skinny lattes. This won’t work. We know this industry and coffee bars will never work. We’ve tried it before.”
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Podcast – Sahar Hashemi

Sahar Hashemi shares her thinking on the behaviours which corporations need to survive in the unpredictable world we now live in, and to successfully attract Generation Z employees. Challenging bureaucracy and accepted wisdom, and encouraging agility, curiosity, and resilience, are just some of the topics we discuss
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