In a demanding world where change happens at an increasing pace, a lot is asked from your employees. The temptation to be always ‘on’ and the need to perform well adds a lot of pressure. Stress, overwhelm and exhaustion lowers productivity & creativity and increases sick leave.
It’s been said that 90% of disease are caused by stress. According to McKinsey Health Institute1, globally one in four employees are experiencing signs of burnout.
Employees who chronically abandon themselves to the demands of an always-on world—who push through in their need to get things done at all costs and meet expectations—don’t just erode their health and focus. They become harder to work with, harder to live with, harder on themselves.
Sick leave rises, irritation surges and often quality of output and work satisfaction drops.
Iris presented to our meeting of international executives and her talk was both useful and inspiring. Her ideas on personal energy and productivity are gold!
“In a sleep-deprived state, your brain is more likely to misinterpret cues and overreact to emotional events, and you tend to express your feelings in a more negative manner and tone of voice. Recent studies have shown that people who have not had enough sleep are less likely to fully trust someone else. Another experiment has demonstrated that employees feel less engaged with their work when their leaders have had a bad night of sleep.” —Van Dam and Van der Helm, 2016.
Prioritizing self-care and scheduling strategic rest isn’t optional. It’s essential to support new ideas, great execution and a pleasant working atmosphere.
Making these changes isn’t just about understanding the importance of breaks—it requires feeling the freedom to stay true to yourself, being able to listen to your body and prioritize what supports sustainable performance. Even when that requires saying no and setting healthy boundaries.
When employees get lost, overwhelmed or disconnected from what they and their body need, they need to be guided back home to themselves.
Iris has created powerful proprietary tools like the Energy Balance ScanTM and the Growth Accelerator AssessmentTM to help people see what their energy and stress level is like and where they are on their (personal) growth curve. She’s the author of Radiant: How to Have Energy You Need to Live a Life You Love.
Iris has helped many individuals, teams and organizations identify where things are ‘off’ and showed the way towards a solution.
Other topics she has supported companies with:
The result? Better performance, happier and healthier employees.
Each event will be tailored to the specific needs of your organization—whether it’s a keynote, half day of training or a multiple day workshop for your team or department.
The scan gave us insights in how our business is doing as a whole and in addition it was a great reason to discuss with each other what is going well and what can be improved. From our responsibility as an employer, we can now be more focused in approaching an employee and have a conversation about these topics. Also, the employee gets clear advice combined with practical action steps. Furthermore, the scan offers measures which an employee can use to ensure that where things do go well, they will continue to go well. That last element is extra important for us because our employees need to deliver high quality performance during pretty challenging phases in projects.
Iris is keynote speaker, transformative mentor and author. She has been supporting people and teams since 2002 with life-changing insights and tools. Thanks to her MBA and background in the corporate world, she can combine her extensive business experience with her renowned razor-sharp intuitive insights in order to support those struggling in their life, career, business, or high performance as a whole.
Iris has hosted workshops and trainings in NYC and other places in the United States, Ireland, Italy and of course all over The Netherlands.
Her clients range from entrepreneurs, leaders, executives, coaches, Olympic athletes, managers and artists to large companies and organizations such as KLM Arboservices, Brink’s Nederland b.v., Van der Breggen BV, Vandrveen, Unicef, KPN, RBVLEAF, Sint Franciscus Gasthuis, OV Bureau Randstad, Metropoolregio Rotterdam Den Haag, Microsoft, Securitas and others.
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Iris van Ooyen helped our company KLM Health Services improving our innovative skills and creative problem solving. As a result of this we are able to make the most of our opportunities. She is a very skillfull and nice person to work with.
