THE PROGRAM
Make fewer promises. Deliver better results.
Everyone at work is collaborating with lots more people than ever before. New tasks, projects, responsibilities, and opportunities arrive every single day. The truth is, everyone wants to be able to depend on each other and deliver for each other. But nobody can do everything for everybody. Too often, people overpromise, underdeliver—and burn out. That’s when siege mentality sets in: as individuals begin to resist collaboration, teamwork stalls and productivity suffers. One person’s burnout can have HUGE effects!
Navigating collaborative relationships—and the many demands on employees’ time—is not going away. Overcommitting is not a sustainable solution for employees, teams, or organizations. What does work? Adopting a true service mindset. That means delivering on commitments by only saying “yes” to the best asks and the right opportunities.
In this program, Bruce draws on decades of research, sharing true stories from real people, in real workplaces, in the real world, blending humor, insight, and concrete best-practices to show participants how to fight overcommitment syndrome. Participants will walk away as better collaborators, better prepared to avoid burnout and deliver great results.
Participants will learn
- What overcommitment syndrome and siege mentality look like—the things most people identify as burnout.
- Why adopting a true service mindset is not about saying “yes” to everyone and everything at work.
- How carefully choosing “yes” and “no” can build a better reputation at work.
- How aligning up, down and sideways helps prevent overcommitment.
Techniques and best practices
- Adopting a service mindset that strengthens professional reputation
- Determining when to say “no” and how to say “yes”
- Executing one thing at a time, not juggling
- Utilizing to-do lists and schedules to break work into doable chunks and find gaps for focused execution time
- Maintaining alignment up, down, sideways and diagonal
- Finding and developing Go-to People when and where they are needed
WHO IT’S FOR
Designed for your people.
Employees, managers, and cross-functional teams balancing competing requests and priorities.
AVAILABLE FORMATS
Built around your event.
Keynotes · Workshops · Virtual programs
Available in person and virtually. Workshops can be half-day, full-day, or multi-day engagements. RainmakerThinking will help you choose the format and customize the focus for your audience.
BRING THIS PROGRAM TO YOUR EVENT
Let’s talk about your audience.
For program customization and availability, contact RainmakerThinking. Tell us about your audience, event and objectives; we’ll help shape the program and format around your organization.