Relational Energy: How to Beat Burnout and Ignite Your Team
Jan 2027 · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Burnout can’t be solved with just perks or stress-reduction workshops. It's solved by changing how leaders engage their teams—a practical shift that requires no new resources. Grounded in peer-reviewed research, Relational Energy shows leaders how small changes in everyday workplace conversations can spark energy, revive exhausted teams, and build workplaces where people thrive.
Every leader is dealing with burnout and looking for something they can actually do tomorrow morning, and this is it.
In this book, leadership scholar Amy Young, with Kim Cameron, reveals how everyday communication creates relational energy, the powerful force that fuels engagement, creativity, resilience, health and well-being, and performance across teams.
Drawing on interviews with energizing leaders and weaving in supporting peer-reviewed research, Young unlocks the secrets to thriving amid uncertainty and disruption due to AI automation, fragile labor markets, cultural divisiveness, and relentless workplace demands. Through vivid real-world examples, you'll discover how energizing leaders sustain their own vitality while lifting their teams at the same time, simply by rethinking how they approach everyday conversations. You'll learn how to turn those ordinary interactions into extraordinary ones, providing a practical, no-cost antidote to workplace stress and burnout.
In this book, you will learn
Practical, research driven, and immediately applicable, Relational Energy shows leaders how small changes in language can create extraordinary impact, recharging people, teams, and entire organizations.
Every leader is dealing with burnout and looking for something they can actually do tomorrow morning, and this is it.
In this book, leadership scholar Amy Young, with Kim Cameron, reveals how everyday communication creates relational energy, the powerful force that fuels engagement, creativity, resilience, health and well-being, and performance across teams.
Drawing on interviews with energizing leaders and weaving in supporting peer-reviewed research, Young unlocks the secrets to thriving amid uncertainty and disruption due to AI automation, fragile labor markets, cultural divisiveness, and relentless workplace demands. Through vivid real-world examples, you'll discover how energizing leaders sustain their own vitality while lifting their teams at the same time, simply by rethinking how they approach everyday conversations. You'll learn how to turn those ordinary interactions into extraordinary ones, providing a practical, no-cost antidote to workplace stress and burnout.
In this book, you will learn
- how relational energy promotes workplace well-being and performance, creating the foundation for sustainable organizational success;
- strategies energizing leaders use to maintain their own energy levels while navigating the same modern workplace pressures that impact their teams;
- how to have workplace conversations that generate healthy perceptions of challenge and stress and reduce burnout while building resilience and team solidarity;
- specific language choices (wording, pronoun selection, questions, and declarative statements) that empower employees, elevate teams, and drive productivity; and
- how to acknowledge hard realities while building genuine hope and resilience, avoiding toxic positivity that saps energy.
Practical, research driven, and immediately applicable, Relational Energy shows leaders how small changes in language can create extraordinary impact, recharging people, teams, and entire organizations.
Burnout can’t be solved with just perks or stress-reduction workshops. It's solved by changing how leaders engage their teams—a practical shift that requires no new resources. Grounded in peer-reviewed research, Relational Energy shows leaders how small changes in everyday workplace conversations...
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About the author
Amy Young, PhD, is a professor of business communications at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. She is the former faculty director of the Center for Positive Organizations Consortium.
Kim Cameron, PhD, is the William Russell Kelly Professor Emeritus of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business and Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at the University of Michigan. He cofounded the Center for Positive Organizations and continues to teach positive leadership in executive education at Ross.
Amy Young, PhD, is a professor of business communications at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. She is the former faculty director of the Center for Positive Organizations Consortium.
Kim Cameron, PhD, is the William Russell Kelly Professor Emeritus of Management and Organizatio...
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