Extinguishing burnout: As stress mounts, employers can help

More than a year into the pandemic, more and more teams battle another effect of COVID-19: burnout.  Even before the pandemic, burnout had reached record levels. The World Health Organization included burnout in its classification of diseases in 2019, describing it as “a syndrome … resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully […]

Establish your culture as a guiding force

I recently listened to an Adam Grant podcast about an entire organization with no bosses. That’s right: no bosses. It took me a while to wrap my brain around the concept and stop mentally guffawing at the idea of how this business can run — successfully — without a boss. But that’s exactly what Morning […]

First step to preventing a suicide: Ask the question

In taking the applied suicide intervention skills training offered by the Western Colorado Suicide Prevention Foundation, I was struck by how hard it was to ask a simple question: Are you thinking about suicide? And this was just practice with a fellow participant. The stigma surrounding the conversation must be eliminated from our culture. The […]