Many leaders encourage their teams to take time off.
Then spend the entire holiday weekend checking email.
If you're answering messages at all hours, joining calls from vacation, or responding to every notification within minutes, your team notices.
And most won't feel comfortable doing something different. They schedule calls around your vacation, send quick questions to your phone, and feel guilty logging off.
What you model matters
The culture of a team is shaped by what you model, not just what you encourage.
With a long holiday weekend coming up, this might be a good time to ask yourself a simple question.
When you're off, are you actually off?
Or are you still carrying the business around with you?
Sustainable leadership
Taking time to recharge isn't a luxury.
It's part of sustainable leadership.
When you create healthy boundaries for yourself, you give everyone around you permission to do the same.
Enjoy the holiday.
Your inbox will still be there on Tuesday.
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