The Hidden Crisis in Mission-Driven Organizations
Marisol Solarte-Erlacher
20 Year Therapist || Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business || Cultural Strategy Officer || Laughter, Feelings & Function || 5 Year Resilience Consultant || Organizational Leaders...Resilience is Around the Corner
What important truth do very few people agree with me on?
Most organizational wellness programs are failing because they focus on individual resilience while ignoring systemic burnout. It's like giving someone a better bucket to bail water instead of fixing the hole in the boat.
Here's the secret that 15 years of working with non-profits and government agencies has taught me: When leaders push "resilience" without addressing organizational trauma, they accelerate burnout.
The real problem?
The uncomfortable truth: Your team's burnout isn't a personal failure - it's a systemic response to unprecedented challenges.
The organizations thriving today aren't just teaching breathing exercises. They're:
The time for resilient organizations isn't coming - it's here. As mission-driven leaders face unprecedented challenges, we can't afford to confuse endurance with resilience. True organizational resilience isn't about teaching your team to weather storms better - it's about building systems that allow them to thrive through change while staying connected to their purpose. Ready to transform how your organization approaches resilience? Let's talk.
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3 个月Marisol Solarte-Erlacher <response> Thank you for highlighting the critical distinction between resilience and true organizational well-being. Your insights into systemic burnout and the need for trauma-informed leadership are incredibly valuable. In my work with mission-driven organizations, I've also seen the pitfalls of overlooking organizational stress. How can leaders begin to implement these sustainable support systems effectively?
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3 个月wow, that is quite the statistic ! Awareness the first step to implementing change, important topic that your sharing about.
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3 个月great points Marisol Solarte-Erlacher -- if executives are feeling burntout, the audiences they are pitching their messages too are also bunt out on hearing the same things.
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3 个月"Most organizations mistake passion for sustainability." - killer insight!