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How Leaders Can Help Prevent Emotional Exhaustion at Work
Are you or your employees short-circuiting? Here's what leaders can do
Source | www.entrepreneur.com | Shaun Belding
Our natural response to fear — our fight-or-flight response — is widely understood. On perceiving a threat, the hypothalamus in our brains sends the message to our adrenal and pituitary glands to release hormones that prepare the body for action. When the perceived threat is gone, the brain stops triggering the release of these hormones, and homeostasis begins, with our bodies gradually returning to their normal states. Easy-peasy.
Things start to break down, however, when our brains start continuously getting signals that there is a threat
