Interview with Evan Smith

Organizations change when their leaders do: when each leader chooses a growth-learning mindset, assumes personal responsibility ("it IS me!"), and builds capabilities to learn and lead by example.    Evan helps leaders and their organizations grapple successfully with significant demands for learning and growth.  In addition to his own independent clients and work with BolsterUp,  he works with partners Kotter Inc. and Box of Crayons , bringing smart, practical habit change that helps leaders to shift their patterns, create more engagement, and have more impact.   He's worked with leaders across F500 companies, private firms (including startups), government and nonprofits.    He holds an MBA from the Yale School of Organization and Management; Bachelors degrees in Engineering and Liberal Arts from Penn State; and lives in Providence, RI.      CURRENT WORK at bolsterup.life While burnout is often described as an individual's problem - we see organizations with significant influence on the causes, triggers and drivers of burnout.  Individual people - working alone - can't "resilience" their way out of burnout.  Our work supports individuals, leaders and organizations to create more holistic, supportive and collaborative work environments; in healthcare, creating purposeful, meaningful, rewarding work for clinicians and great outcomes for patients.   TWO STEPS YOU CAN TAKE -    For those working in HEALTHCARE as clinicians, nurses, physicians... Please share your experience with stress and burnout in your organization by completing a short survey (less than five minutes) on https://bolsterup.life   Your input will really help to combat burnout.  To support need to better understand two things:  how individual care providers are experiencing burnout, and  what healthcare organizations are actually doing today to mitigate the systemic causes of burnout. To thank you - We'll share "5 Ways to Reduce Burnout for Provider Teams" - that you can use with your team (or share with your senior leadership) For you - as a leader: To address burnout you may be experiencing... One indicator of burnout - individually - is a feeling of depersonalization: where you experience separation of your Self from deeper purpose and meaning in your work - and separation from real contact with people (colleagues, team-mates, partners) important to you in that work.    You can take some small and powerful steps that will help to improve your connection with others in your world/ your team.   To make a better connection - and improve the care and connection you get in return: Go to metamg.com; there, you can download "Making a Better Connection", a collection of tips you can use right away to close the gap, and get closer to people who matter to you and your work.   Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cesmith/ https://twitter.com/cesmith_   Support the Breakfast Leadership Network! Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course. Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course: https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-life Hire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speaking Burnout proof your life with the new book Burnout Proof:  How To Establish Boundaries To Avoid The Negativity Of Stress https://amzn.to/2JkbKxQ Buy Michael's life-altering book: 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenario: https://www.amazon.com/369-Days-Survive-Worst-Case-Scenarios-ebook/dp/B074CCLKZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502047423&sr=8-1&keywords=369+days Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network Like, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410------