If you’re unfamiliar with the show Ted Lasso (that took over pop culture during the pandemic and released its final season last year) you may think we have either lost our minds or have way too much time on our hands – why are we talking about leadership lessons from a TV show?!

In an interesting confluence of events, as these legislative changes have been coming into effect across Australia, economic pressures are seeing organisations cut back on headcount whilst being expected to produce the same output. Individuals in these workplaces are arguably being put under more stress and exposed to further psychosocial hazard.

Understanding wellbeing and burnout can be difficult. There are many factors to consider and significant individual variability that creates a complex interplay between individuals, managers, teams, and organisational practices. The good news is, there’s support to get this formula right, and it's an area we are extremely passionate about at Vicissitude.

It makes us wonder: why were we told from such a young age to strive for perfection? What is the impact of the implicit messaging hidden in this saying? And what if we were told instead ‘practice makes progress’ - emphasising the value of effort over outcome?

…flexibility is going to become part of our reality – and as with everything, this is an opportunity for us to grow!

This week we challenge the way many of us have tried to separate work and life and argue for a new way of working and living to stay with us.

…we can take a leaf out of the book of Helen Garner who once thanked her previous employer for firing her because it allowed her to write a book that had earned her national recognition. Similarly, we turn to the Buddhist idea that negative events give us a chance to “wake up” to our reality.