Shadowing-Übung: Simon Sinek on Avoiding Burnout and the Modern Work-Life Balance - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

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The question is how do we take care of the health of our people
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so we can continue to perform over the long term?
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Two lumberjacks every morning, they go to work at the same time.
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Every day they end work at the same time.
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And every day one of the lumberjacks disappears in the middle of the day for about an hour.
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And every day the lumberjack
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that disappears for about an hour in the middle of the day chops more wood than the other lumberjack.
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This goes on for months.
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And then finally the guy who works all day, he stops.
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He says, I have to ask you, every day we start at the same time.
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Every day we stop at the same time.
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Every day you go away for about an hour in the middle of the day, and every day you chop more wood than me.
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Where do you go away for that hour?
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And the other lumberjack looks up and goes, Oh, I go home and sharpen my act.
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And I think it's one thing to enforce people taking vacation, but I think we don't even do a good job of that.
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There's a huge difference between taking a vacation and telecommuting from the beach.
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And I think where we get it wrong is where we allow people to dial in in the morning
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and miss breakfast with their family when they're on vacation.
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or we expect them to be on the call when they're sitting by the pool.
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That's not a vacation.
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That's telecommuting from just a foreign place.
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And so I think work-life balance is becoming a more complicated thing to understand
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and achieve because of this world we live in where now distributed workforces are now a thing where you can work remotely.
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And how and when people work and even what the definition of a full-time job is, is all changing.
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and I've been forced to challenge my own beliefs.
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So I used to be very, very strict that once you leave the office at the end of the day, I don't want to hear from you,
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and don't you dare send me an email on the weekend because you should be with your family.
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There was always going to be exceptions and rare circumstances, but on balance, I was pretty dogmatic about it.
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And I came across some research recently.
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There's a company called Water Cooler, which I help, that tracks sort of everybody's work It's kind of amazing stuff they do.
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And what they discovered is that people who never engage on weekends
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or evenings actually have high propensities to quit and very low engagement scores.
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People who work too much at nights and on weekends burn out very quickly.
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But there's this little sweet spot where people who want to work the occasional night, do a little bit of work on the occasional weekend,
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actually have the best performing and actually the happiest employees, the reason they work on the occasional night and weekend is because they care.
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And so it really flew in the face of what I used to believe.
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So now I tend to sort of take a step back and I just want to make sure people aren't overdoing it.
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But vacation is different.
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I expect people to disconnect when they're on vacation because I need them to sharpen their acts.
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I also expect people to speak out if they need a break.
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And the way to do that is for me to lead the way.

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