6 Reasons Why Leaders Should Prioritize Self-Care

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“Self-care” is one of those phrases that’s on everyone’s lips these days, but the concept isn’t well understood. It’s not selfish or self-centered to prioritize your well-being. Self-care is also not a luxury. When you take care of yourself, you feel positive, you can do your job, and you help others on the team feel better too.

Think of self-care as a way of showing others that you respect them enough to show up to work with your best face forward. When you take the extra effort to function at your best, it encourages others to do the same. Self-care is a win-win for you, your team, and your company.

However, while many leaders acknowledge the importance of self-care, it can be challenging to know where to begin. Sometimes that’s because leaders have put others first for so long that they don’t even consider their own well-being a priority anymore. Other times, leaders get around to caring for themselves only after they start to feel the effects of burnout. But self-care works better when you’re proactive about it, and the great news is that it doesn’t have to be time-consuming.

Especially this year, when managers are feeling more burned out than ever before and they’ve experienced steeper declines in engagement than their employees, it’s vitally important that well-being regains its status as a top priority. And there are numerous outcomes you can look forward to when you do this, including the 6 benefits that I share in this week’s article.

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