Jeanette Bronée

Our relationship with work is broken. We abandon ourselves to perform at our best, which is when we need self-care the most. Why do we do that? Well, it’s our automatic human behavior which is why rethinking self-care is so important to harness our human advantage, potential, and happiness so that we can thrive at work and in life.

What we get wrong is that we think of self-care as something that takes time, but self-care gives us time back because it’s not what we do, it’s how we think.

The Self-Care Mindset® is the emotional intelligence of self-care. It’s how we bridge the gap between how we think, engage with others and show up at work, accessing our human advantage so that we can harness our potential.

At the core of our humanness is CARE and when we can access what truly drives us, our inner fuel, we can reclaim our personal power and unleash our professional potential, without the burnout.

The Self-Care Mindset® is based on 4 key aspects of self-awareness and self-management to help us understand the connection between how we think and our human behavior so that we can take charge of our mindset and habits to not only prevent burnout, but also connect and work better.

Rethinking self-care means breaking up with the myths of self-care, turning it upside down and inside out to achieve the kind of wellbeing foundation that cultivates high performance and a culture where people connect, belong, and work better, together.

What if resilience is not about pushing through and success is not about working harder but instead it’s about pausing on purpose so that we can work better, together?

Keeping up with technology and the speed of work, we have lost the connection with not only each other, but also ourselves. In our modern digitally driven, hybrid work-life, we are losing the balance we used to have (if we had found it) between work and life and the human connection that nourished our work-culture. Now we must focus on cultivating work-life quality, not just so we can survive the speed and future of work, but rather so that we can harness change and rethink resilience, by becoming more aware, adaptable, and agile and reconnecting with what helps us thrive, our human connection.

Power-pausing is a simple tool with a huge impact on our physical, emotional and mental wellbeing as well as our professional success and health of our work culture.

Taking a pause to care is how we can THINK, ENGAGE & ACT with more intent and purpose as individuals, teams, and leaders to cultivate essential leadership skills of listening, accessing our EQ and communicate with empathy. It’s also how we as a culture can activate our collective growth mindset because when we Power-Pause we can connect, communicate, and collaborate with care.

Imaging a culture of pausing, what could change?

What if the future of leadership is based on truly understanding what drives us a human-beings as the foundation for creating better results? Where the best leaders ask better questions and lead with care, driven by curiosity, leading towards clarity and cultivating courage.

Leadership is changing and we need to change our communication to change with it.

For leadership to work better it needs to be human-driven, process-driven, and support driven. Supporting people and teams in being at their best by creating a culture of trust, empathy and authenticity.

Leadership is no longer about managing people to produce results; it’s about understanding what drives us as human beings and what we need so that we can produce results.

Let’s stop making people-driven leadership a guessing game and start asking the questions that give people agency because we have the tools to be our best selves.

Care-driven leadership is based on asking better questions, using the care-model: curiosity, acknowledgement, respect, and empathy to cultivate better connection, communication and collaborate by engaging in conversations that build trust, support and activate our human potential.

Leadership from the inside out is how we can harness our human advantage and cultivate both personal and professional success, because we CARE.

The world is talking about a wellbeing economy so how do companies function as an eco-system of relationships that foster a Culture of Care® where people connect, belong, and work better?

Self-care is no longer a personal problem, it’s a culture possibility because stress is contagious and so is wellbeing.

The care ripple effect is when we care for ourselves, so that we can care better about others, and collectively we can care better about and for our clients and customers.

A Culture of Care® is focused on rethinking self-care as a a tool for peak-performance, engagement, and achieving results, without running on survival mode headed towards burnout, but rather running on CARE-mode: confidence, agility, resilience, and empowerment.

A care-driven culture is a culture that works better together, because it’s inclusive of our diverse human needs and fosters a work-culture driven by connection, communication, and collaborate. Belonging happens when we care together.

A care-driven culture is a key factor in being on the edge of the competition, innovation, and harnessing change in the future of work.