The article discusses the often-overlooked role of anxiety in corporate environments, highlighting that cultures that ignore it miss out on trust and innovation. At the UNLEASH America conference, the author engaged in meaningful conversations about workplace anxiety, revealing the personal struggles of many professionals. While companies provide wellness resources, these typically frame anxiety negatively, viewing it as a problem to eliminate. However, anxiety should be recognized as a valuable leadership concern, with peak performers reframing stress positively as an energy source, a perspective that corporate teams should adopt to thrive under pressure.
Despite thousands of attendees and dozens of sessions on technology, talent acquisition, leadership, and artificial intelligence, mine was the only talk focused directly on mental health.
But these offerings tend to frame anxiety as something to be fixed or removed, as a liability, a disorder, a business problem to solve.
Anxiety isn't just a clinical issue; it's a leadership issue.
Peak performers reframe stress as energy; corporate teams should do the same under pressure.
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