Episode 68: Supporting Insight people through change

James is joined by Lara Meyer, an expert on Insight team stress and well-being, to discuss the ongoing importance of developing Insight professionals and nurturing our teams amidst rapid technological advancements. Lara shares her personal journey, highlighting the necessity of balancing high performance with well-being for sustainable success. 

Burnout can creep up on even the most resilient among us, quietly eroding our passion and energy, and Lara explains how this can easily happen to Insight professionals.

• What is burnout?
• What are the signs to look out for?
• How can we help our colleagues to avoid or alleviate stress? 

This is a critical issue for Insight leaders and anyone who aspires to be a senior manager in an Insight team. 

Please listen to find out more!

Topics Discussed

• Developing Insight People Through Change (00:36)
• Balancing High Performance and Happiness (06:10)
• Recognising and Preventing Burnout (14:12)
• Importance of Work-Life Balance (19:29)
• Benefits of Self-Awareness in Leadership (27:06)

Highlights

• “Sometimes as individuals I speak from personal experience and as managers or leaders, or even organizationally, we don't take care of ourselves or the people that we're working alongside quite as well as we should do.” (04:59)
• “Having many clients and many stakeholders, certainly when I was in my client-side roles in Microsoft, balancing, many, many requests from across the business mean that you're trying to do the best that you can and wanting to deliver as much as possible, which can often mean taking on too much.” (09.18)
• “That balance between work and out of work always fascinates me. This was, you know, I've just been putting the finishing touches to a book called the Insight Leader's Playbook, and I found myself finishing the book by making reference to what's a bit of a bugbear of mine.” (18.42)
• “The key is in the small steps that you can do for yourself, specifically outside of work. So it is about how you can do small things for yourself that help you to recharge, because the antidote to, you know, being overly stressed, being burnt out, isn't just taking a pause, taking a break.” (24.35)

This is episode 68 of the Transforming Insight podcast. 

If you have the ambition to transform your Insight team and the role it plays in your organisation, please tune in to future episodes. Not only will we explore the 42 secrets of successful corporate Insight teams as outlined in the Transforming Insight book, we will also talk to senior corporate Insight leaders, delve into books that have inspired us, and discuss new best practice research carried out with the IMA’s corporate members.

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About James Wycherley, the author of Transforming Insight

James Wycherley was Director of Customer Insight and Analytics at Barclays from 2005 to 2015 when he became Chief Executive of the Insight Management Academy (IMA). A popular keynote speaker and acknowledged expert on Insight leadership, strategy, and communication, he is the author of the book Transforming Insight: the 42 secrets of successful corporate Insight teams, and over 35 IMA publications. He has provided thought leadership in the UK, Western Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, India, and the Middle East, and regularly hosts the IMA’s Insight forums - London, Manchester, UK Online and US Online.

The Insight Management Academy is the world’s leading authority on transforming Insight teams.

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