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Energy
Can people sustain the pace?
Weak
Change fatigue, quiet burnout, and good people going flat before they hand in notice.
Strong
A pace people can sustain, recognition that's specific, and change that's staged, not stacked.
Playbooks
In the works
- Recognition that costs nothing
- Boundaries and burnout
What weak looks like in your industry
- Software and technologyFour reorganisations in two years and the best engineers have stopped volunteering ideas.
- Healthcare and practicesRotas filled by the same willing few until they go off sick.
- Accountancy and professional servicesBusy season never really ends, it just changes name.
- Manufacturing and operationsOvertime is the plan, not the exception.
- Small businessYou and two others carry everything, and it shows.
In the frameworks you already use
Every framework touches this dimension somewhere. Here's where.
All frameworks →From the blog
Twelve small rituals that stop a team going stale
Teams rarely burn out from one big thing. They wear down from the same week on repeat. Twelve small, cheap ideas to bring some energy back, none of which need a budget.
How to enable change without a change programme
People don't resist change. They resist loss, and being done to. How to lead a change so people come with you, whether it's a new system, a new structure or a new way of working.
Change fatigue: when your team has had enough
One change is manageable. Five at once, with no end in sight, wears people out. How to spot change fatigue early and protect your team from it.