Care, Trust, and Pause: Building a Happy Workplace Culture with Jeanette Broneé

Well-being and leadership expert and author Jeanette Browning challenges burnout culture and reframes self-care as a leadership responsibility.

In our chat today, with your hosts Henry and Maureen, Jeanette shares personal stories of burnout and caregiving, and introduces the concept of “power pausing” towards creating clarity and connection, with others and for others.

Hear about the importance of listening with empathy and also how trust, agency, and caring conversations can transform workplace culture, towards making both high performance and humanity compatible.

Jeanette also offers practical tips for happier workplaces, through pausing, building trust, and genuinely caring about people.

Jeanette's tips for a happy workplace:

1. Design "pausing" into your work and conversations
2. Build trust (within people themselves) by creating space to listen
3. Care about people (have a conversation)

Links and resources mentioned in this episode:

1. Jeanette's book The Self-care Mindset
2. Happy Workplace