Dr. Kurt Love

But it has a lot of avenues for things not going well.

So it really behooves us

as people who are leaders and working with our teams and managing to dig in to find out what is going on mentally and emotionally with our team members on a very regular basis.

Not every day, that would be a lot too much, but to get into, I think, a good cycling of understanding what is happening.

Are my team members, are they okay?

Are they burning out?

Are they in this space of quiet cracking but not telling anybody?

So, you know, we have ways of anonymously checking in.

And it's not about anything punitive.

It's not about anything that leads to a negative outcome, somebody being dismissed or anything like that.

What it really is about is just getting that general sentiment deeply understood as a leader so that you can make really informed decisions that...

you know, inform just sort of the trajectory of the business or the organization, but also taking really good care of the people who are doing all that heavy lifting on a regular basis.

Do they feel that they have the support?

Do they feel that they have the recovery when they need it?

Do they, are they coming to work feeling drained already?

Are they leaving work feeling even more drained, right?

Those are recipes for disaster within any company.

And I just want to remind people listening that it's not that adults don't want challenges.

Adults thrive in environments that provide the right kind of challenges.

So it's really about understanding that we can do the hard work.