What are your plans for Mental Health Awareness Month?

Optimizing Your Workload: Our next short, free webinar on the 6 Drivers of Burnout happening this Friday, 4/21 at 1pm PST.

In order to take advantage of the warmer weather through scheduling regular High Quality Time-Off into your schedule, optimizing our workloads is key. Workload is the #1 driver of burnout. With teams being asked to "do more with less," individual contributors and managers must juggle an overwhelming amount of tasks each week. This session looks at management science research on managing a large workload. We look at opportunities to prioritize, delegate, and reflect on what really matters at work.?

This session is designed for both managers and individual contributors, and provides an introduction to tools and frameworks that can support teams with too many work tasks.

Register here: bit.ly/optimizeworkload

Making most of your PTO with summertime High Quality Time-Off

Summertime is right around the corner- everyone’s favorite time to make sure to use that PTO. Studies show how important it is to use your time off- including in advancing your career.?

Here are some of our favorite highlights from HBR about why taking your PTO makes business sense, and why how you vacation matters:?

• A positive, engaged brain improves important business metrics. When the brain can think positively, productivity improves by 31%, sales increase by 37%, and creativity and revenues can triple.

• In research done by the U.S. Travel Association’s Project: Time Off, when managers were asked what vacation time benefit would motivate them to talk to their employees about using more vacation days, the top benefit was increased personal happiness (31%), followed by productivity (21%). Why? Because most managers understand that happy employees are more productive and collaborative.

• But, not all vacations are created equal: 94% of vacations result in higher levels of happiness and energy if you:?

1. Plan a month in advance and prepare your coworkers for your time away,?
2. Go outside your city (the further the better),?
3. Meet with a local host or other knowledgeable guide at the location, and?
4. Have the travel details set before going.?

Smart vacations lead to greater happiness and energy at work, and therefore, greater productivity, intelligence and resilience.