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Every day counts
Miss a day, and you start again. That is why it stays small.
How do you keep your team's energy high, without draining your own?
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Why it works
Leaders usually know what fuels their energy. On a full working day, it simply slips. The largest analysis of behaviour research to date shows that knowledge barely changes behaviour. Habits have by far the strongest effect.
That is why Mental Energy is not another training. It uses Micro Habits: small habits in the working day itself. Small enough for the busiest day, and that is why they stick.
Source: Albarracín et al., Nature Reviews Psychology, 2024.
What a training delivers
Until the next morning. Then the daily grind wins.
What Micro Habits add
Five minutes a day, for eight weeks. That's how an intention becomes a habit.
Who it's for
How employees feel at work depends largely on their manager. Just as much as on their partner at home. That's why we start there: when one manager changes, the whole team notices.
Source: The Workforce Institute at UKG (2023), international survey of employees.
A leader influences the team's energy, enjoyment and resilience every day.
Emotions and energy spread through a team. What the leader radiates, the team takes on.
If one leader's behaviour changes, the whole team notices. That is why Mental Energy starts with them.
The programme
Two weeks per theme: week one the habit for yourself, week two the same habit with your team. Plus one group challenge.
Week 1–2
Self-regulation costs energy. When it runs out, autopilot takes over.
For yourself
Check your energy every day
With your team
Do a team check
Week 3–4
It is not the effort that wears you down, but the lack of recovery.
For yourself
Build in one recovery moment
With your team
Take a team pause
Week 5–6
Attention is the scarce resource. Every task switch costs.
For yourself
Give full attention once
With your team
Plan a focus block
Week 7–8
What the leader does, the team copies.
For yourself
Make healthy working visible
With your team
Share a healthy choice
A taste
Not in one go. One Micro Habit a day, visible in your streak, your week and your team. Small enough to keep.
Mental Energy
Every Micro Habit fills the ring. First you, then your week, then the team.
Day streak
Miss a day, and you start again. That is why it stays small.
Your week
For yourself, and with your teammate.
Group challenge
One goal per theme, with impact for a good cause.
How it works
Results
Week 0
Baseline
Week 1–8
Programme in the app
Week 9
End measurement and report
On screen
Elke Geraerts is a doctor of psychology, neuroscientist and founder of Better Minds at Work. She wrote, among others, Mental Capital and Focus Is the New Gold. For some 25 years she has researched one question: how do people who carry a lot keep their minds strong?
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Mental Energy is one of the nine domains of Wellbeing Leadership.
Pick a time below, and we will see together whether the programme
fits.
No obligation, 20 minutes, with Rob van Drunen.
Wellbeing Leadership is an initiative of The Micro Habit Company & Zilveren Kruis.
Mental Energy is one of the nine domains. We believe leadership is the key to a healthy work culture.
Prefer email? Contact Rob van Drunen via rob@themicrohabitcompany.com