Your Key Leader Is About to Burnout — Here’s What To Do

You have key leaders that are silently suffering in stress and anxiety and are at risk of burnout.

It’s not because you’re a bad leader or don’t care about them. It’s because your key leaders lack a framework to support all the work to make your vision a reality.

Not only can you save your key leader from burnout - and avoid the toll on your business - but you can empower your key leader to make your vision happen. Even better, you can actually make both their worklife your worklife easier.

If you’re ready, jump to the bottom.

Otherwise let me tell you something that might scare you.

It’s Not Just You :: Key Leader Burnout is an Epidemic

Key leader burnout is an epidemic. 75% of Employees report feeling burn out according to FlexJobs.

You have a big vision, a contribution you want to make, goals you feel burdened to achieve.

The challenge is you need the results from these key leaders, and your resources are limited. You can’t simply hire more people and make the problem go away.

But how can you get results without key leaders burning out?

How to Identify Stress vs. Burnout

You might be resisting this message, and believe stress is just part of the job. It is just the tax you pay on the results you’re getting.

We could argue about the role of stress, but burnout is a whole other level. Here’s how to tell the difference:

Where stress makes you attentive to the game, burnout sidelines you, rendering you unable to participate.

The Real Cost of Burnout

What would it cost your business if one of your key leaders burnt out?

At best the key leader needs time to recover, diminishing your ability to get the results you need.

At worst they leave your company, which Gallup research shows ends up costing you 1.5 to 2x the key leaders annual salary. You simply can’t afford to let you key leaders burn out.

Beyond the real costs, there is a human cost, both on the key leader burning out, and on you. You care about the key leaders on your team, you don’t want to be the type of leader that would let this happen.

Without a framework, burn out is inevitable for a portion of your key leaders because of their ongoing experience of overwhelm. But why?

Why Your Key Leaders Are Overwhelmed (Hint: It’s not you)

I have good news and bad news.

The good news first: your Key Leaders are 100% responsible for their life, so it’s on them to change. They have lived into whatever habits they have related to managing their time.

Here’s the bad news: as a visionary with endless ideas, you’re not helping the situation.

Let me illustrate:

As a visionary leader, you are constantly coming up with new strategies and ideas to move your business forward.

You need to delegate your ideas to your Key Leader so they can make them happen.

And you continue to ideate and delegate…

Eventually your Key Leader is overwhelmed, unable to tell you when your next idea will get done, and generally agitated toward you. But why?

Your Key Leaders lack a framework for managing all the ideas coming at them, and do not have a sense of their capacity, leading them to saying “yes” far too often, and ultimately feeling overwhelmed.

How to Stop Burnout AND Get Results

Imagine if someone set up your key leader each week to crush their goals and protect their mental health.

• Aligned to your goals.
• Aligned to your values.
• Right-sized to the their actual capacity.
• Verified by you to ensure aligned to your goals.

This person exists. It’s called a Time Boss.

When we plan, we are our own Time Boss. A Time Boss sets up their future self to be successful. Time Boss is a simple set of habits that can be learned in a few hours, and locked in over a few weeks of daily repetition.

And great news: every Key Leader on your team is a Time Boss, they just need to be shown how to own this role.

Your key leaders can make massive progress on their priorities while maintaining peace…or they can risk burn out.

And more great news: it’s so easy to for you to help them take the next step.

Ready to support your Team?

On February 13th I’m leading a free masterclass on the Time Boss Operating System, a proven system to make massive progress and feel less stressed. I’d welcome you to send any Key Leader you think might benefit.

What your Key Leaders get from this 90 minute FREE Masterclass:

• Eliminate Their Overwhelm: Learn how to run an effective Weekly Planning Meeting, giving you control over your week instead of letting it control you.
• Increase Their Focus: Discover the power of the Daily List to focus your efforts and significantly boost your day-to-day productivity.
• Reduce Their Stress: Find out how a Daily Review Meeting can help reduce overwhelm and bring clarity to your daily tasks.
• Crush Their Priorities: Gain valuable insights and practical tips on prioritizing and managing your time more effectively.
• Lock in Habits for Life: Equip yourself with strategies and habits for long-term success in balancing workloads and maintaining peace of mind.

Due to the interactive nature of the session, space is limited, and there will be NO recording available after. Please encourage them to RSVP now!

Why is this Masterclass free? The “What” of Time Boss is the easy part, which we’ll cover in the Masterclass. It’s the “How” where the work has to be done. If your Key Leader is a self-starter, they can instantly apply what they’ll learn at the Masterclass. If they need additional support, Time Boss offers 6 Week Coaching Cohorts that leverage group accountability and daily reps to lock in the habits, and help your Key Leader experience a new level of progress on your priorities, while maintaining peace.