Today, on Management Development Unlocked, Eric sits down with Jimmy Burroughes, founder and CEO of Jimmy Burroughes Leadership. His company focuses on turning busy, overworked, and overwhelmed managers into high-impact leaders. Jimmy achieves this using his books, a podcast, and 400-500 workshops annually. Those workshops include facilitated conversations, seminars, and webinars that allow people to learn in the flow of work. Jimmy’s team consists of around 460 associates and facilitators.
Eric and Jimmy’s conversation focuses on why we’re working so much harder in today’s corporate world, the three factors contributing to a leadership perfect storm in the post-COVID world, tips for overcoming burnout, and the enormous costs of multitasking. You won't want to miss this episode if you’re a manager experiencing a lack of engagement on your team.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- Jimmy Burroughes’ leadership development company and its mission to help overwhelmed and overworked managers become high-impact leaders.
- Jimmy’s theory on why we’re working much harder today than our parents did and the impact of being bombarded with all this information.
- The three factors creating a perfect leadership storm in the post-COVID world.
- Two reasons leaders are struggling to lead in the hybrid work and remote work environment.
- Lack of engagement from employees and the critical mass point they’re reaching.
- Increasing burnout, why just “working harder” doesn’t resolve the issue, and how it impacts aspects of your entire life.
- The huge costs of multitasking.
- Jimmy’s podcast, The High Performance Leader, his upcoming new book, “Escape the Multi-tasking Trap,” and his first book, “Beat Burnout, Ignite Performance.”
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