The variety of the elements you self-identify with define your inner balance. It is a scientific fact, that you’ll be much happier if you just stop trying to be one dimensional and accept your own complexity. In fact, not just accept it, but aim to expand it.

Strong cultures are built by nurturing each individual’s inner identities. In order to avoid toxicity in your work environment and to build a healthy climate, you need to respect and enhance your people’s all inner identities.

Who holds the responsibility when we experience burnout? Is it the management, our colleagues or us?

Burnout is our responsibility, but most people cannot tell they are burnout out, because it has become normalized. And let’s be honest, most people can’t cope (let alone afford) with having to say ‘no’ to their boss. With “burnout” now officially recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO), the responsibility for managing is shifting away from the individual and towards the organization.

So what can you as an individual do to protect yourself from burnout and what can you as an organization do to protect your most valuable asset, your people?

We’ve all felt as being that “other” person – when we felt that we didn’t fit in in a social group, or we felt that we didn’t belong in a specific work environment or even when we had the complete opposite opinion on a matter than all the rest.

To understand DEI, you first need to understand that we’ve all experienced inequality or simply not fitting in.

The most important thing is to take those biases that we have and evaluate them, so as to see which of them truly are defence mechanisms and which of them are just perceptions that we’ve turned into stereotypes.

At the heart of any successful transformation program and of any healthy organization lies a fully functional, agile and collaborative team.

Teamwork bonds people together, builds trust and allows them to rely on one another to get things done. Teamwork also enables progress and allows the group to overcome obstacles that would have frustrated an individual. Without teamwork, progress is simply not possible.