Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, where we help

leaders and teams drive strong performance while also preserving humanity in sustainable ways.

And today, I'm closing out my four-part series on how we can combat burnout without dialing back the volume on our work.

And if your team or organization could use some extra support, a boost of insight and action,

head over to leadabovenoise.com forward slash burnout. You'll find ways to work with me and some

extra resources to help you DIY this, if that's your preference.

I hope something in this series has left you feeling a little more grounded and clear and

maybe capable of creating change for yourself and your team. So far, we've expanded our definition

of burnout as more than a problem of too much work. We've looked at how it can be

about having too much work, but it can also be about feeling bored, like we're not learning or

being challenged, or it can come from loneliness and disconnection, or from having to wade through

bureaucracy and meetings that go nowhere, and on and on. We have talked about the impossible weight

that some managers in particular are carrying, and how they can lighten their loads just by letting

go of some assumptions that aren't serving anyone, like that it's their job to keep everyone

happy or always have the answers. And then we talked about how to start to create action,

to drive change not through long-term plans, but through targeted choices. Like finding one way

to connect with one person, or to opt out of one meeting that you're not adding value to,

or to incorporate learning into the flow of work.

These are all potential starting places. And now, we're going to talk about how to keep this going.

Because this work doesn't end after one reset or one round of applause. It takes consistency and

persistence and a willingness to fail along the way. The antidote to burnout isn't a

single wellness initiative. It's building a system one block at a time that actually works,

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