The Emotional Overdraft: 10 Simple Changes for Balancing Business Success and Wellbeing, written by top leadership coach, speaker and Non-Executive Director Andy Brown is a must-read for leaders who find themselves working long hours, constantly trying to do too much and often sacrificing their wellbeing for the success of their business.
Do you find yourself constantly firefighting? Being pulled in different directions? Torn between being a supportive leader and leading with authority? Knowing you need to delegate but not trusting your team? You’re not alone.
Leadership burn-out and overwhelm is a rising problem, with recent research finding that as many as 50% of managers feel burnt-out. We often view stress as an inevitable part of being a leader. Many of us accept working long hours and missing out on time with our families and friends is part and parcel of the job. Indeed, in his work coaching business leaders – many of whom he has saved from burn out – Brown found that, time and time again, business success comes at a high personal cost to leaders.
Many leaders habitually overcome their company’s challenges at the cost of their own mental and physical health. Brown argues that leaders are running up an emotional overdraft. The hidden cost line in a business’s P&L, constantly dipping into your emotional overdraft is not only unsustainable, it can also mask issues that need to be resolved in your business.
In his game-changing new book, Brown explores why you run up an emotional overdraft, how to spot the warning signs, the problems it causes and what you can do to stop it.
The book is a highly insightful exploration of the day-to-day challenges facing business leaders today that will resonate with many. Readers can complete a revealing self-assessment to establish the size of their emotional overdraft and begin to understand what’s driving it. Based on the lived experiences of the leaders Brown works with, it gives leaders a potentially life-changing opportunity to reflect on the impact running up an emotional overdraft is having not just on themselves but also on their families and colleagues – and the tools to change this.
The book helps readers to understand their emotional overdraft – identifying the key drivers within leaders’ behaviour that run it up, for example putting your teams’ needs ahead of your own, not trusting others and a lack of resources. Brown then shares 10 simple behaviour changes leaders can make to reduce their emotional overdraft and empowers them to adopt and maintain them.
An invaluable guide for business leaders, managers, HR teams and anyone looking for a way to balance success and wellbeing, the book reveals how to build a healthier relationship with your business, yourself and your loved ones.
