If You’re Still Doing It All, It’s Not Just Burnout—It’s Isolation.
You’re sitting in your office after hours again.
Not because you’re the only one who can do the work—
But because you’re the only one still pretending you can do it alone.
This is not just burnout from leadership pressure. It’s something deeper: isolation.
You’ve got peers—other managers, supervisors, directors.
You cross paths in the breakroom. You nod in the hallway.
But you don’t ask for help. Because asking feels risky.
What if they say no?
What if they think you’re slipping?
What if they’re just as overwhelmed and hand it right back to you?
So you carry it.
The missed check-ins.
The broken process that no one wants to own.
The workload that never stops multiplying.
And slowly, you start to believe that asking for help is weakness.
Let’s be honest:
This isn’t just overwork, and it’s not just burnout. It’s a lack of trust between leaders.
And when that happens, the whole system breaks.
You lose momentum.
Your team gets mixed signals.
And no one knows who’s really in charge of what—because everyone’s quietly trying to survive.
So here’s the move:
Trust a peer.
Call a fellow manager into your office.
Say, “I’ve been carrying this piece, but I think we need to rethink how it’s shared.”
Say, “I need you to help me lead.”
That one act of honesty might unlock the clarity neither of you could find alone.
And if the walls are too high or the politics too thick?
That’s where we come in.
We help leadership teams reset—not with kumbaya sessions, but with real talk, real structure, and real alignment.
We address the challenges that are not just burnout—like isolation, mistrust, and blurred responsibilities.
If your leadership team isn’t acting like a team—start there.
📩 lisa@withpurpose.com
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It only takes one act of trust to change the dynamic.
Start it with us.