Exploring the challenges of a leader in a new role, navigating work-life balance, setting boundaries, managing email overload, embracing change while maintaining balance, detaching from external roles for self-worth, prioritizing learning over busyness, and balancing leadership with time management for sustainability.
Balancing productivity with personal growth is key to avoiding burnout and achieving sustainable success.
Setting boundaries, prioritizing learning, and redefining success measures are essential in maintaining work-life balance and avoiding overcommitment.
Deep dives
Focusing on Value and Impact in Work
Ben, a manufacturing team manager, grapples with finding balance between making an impact, being a good leader, and preserving personal time. He values showing up and learning over constantly striving to be ahead, aiming to balance being productive without overcommitting, and prioritizing learning to enhance productivity and understanding.
Shifting Perceptions of Success and Work Habits
Ben analyzes his work habits and success criteria, seeking to ease up on high expectations that lead to exhaustion, and focusing on valuing learning and showing up as himself rather than trying to surpass previous achievements. By recognizing the attachment to his work habits, Ben explores redefining success and valuing personal growth over constant pursuit of perfection.
Exploring Work-Life Balance and Time Management
The episode delves into Ben's struggle with time management, the challenge of setting boundaries, and the importance of controlling his calendar, valuing learning, and reframing success measures. It emphasizes the significance of making deliberate decisions to shift focus from constant productivity to enhancing value and personal growth.
Prioritizing Learning and Personal Growth
Ben's journey highlights the need to prioritize learning, allowing space for growth, and reevaluating success markers to balance work commitments and personal time effectively. By honing in on valuing presence, self-improvement, and calibrating work habits, Ben navigates the path towards a more sustainable and fulfilling professional and personal life.
He’s a leader with a passion for going the extra mile and achieving results. But he’s struggling with how long he can sustain the level of effort and time required to meet the demands of his new role. Host Muriel Wilkins helps this leader unpack what drives his work habits, redefine how he demonstrates his value, and align his workload with his overall goals.