Lecture: 5 minutes. For leaders, managers, and teams facing performance and well-being challenges, the main identified cause: burnout at work.
Where to start?
This is a question we hear very often these days, from executives and managers facing a loss of fluidity in their teams: less engagement, diffuse tensions, and irregular performance.
However, burnout at work is not simply a matter of workload.
And this is also what is highlighted by the study recently shared by Gaël Chatelain-Berry:
👉 https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/happy-work-6796407250111000576/
The results are illuminating.
- Permanent emergencies
- the quality of relationships
- a lack of recognition
- lack of autonomy
In other words: the work environment and lived experience become central to burnout.
A key change of focus for performance and management
In many organisations the levers are naturally:
- The tools
- the processes
- performance objectives
But they are not always enough to explain:
- Workplace fatigue
- a drop in motivation
- the degradation of interactions
- performance instability
This is where an under-exploited lever comes into play: Mental preparation in business.
What we have been observing on the ground for 25 years
At NB Associés Académie, we have been supporting leaders, managers, and teams in their challenges of sustainable performance and well-being at work for over 25 years, in France and internationally.
We observe a constant: In an equivalent context, it is the way in which situations are perceived, experienced, and regulated that makes the difference.
This exhaustion at work directly impacts decision-making quality, interactions, and sustainable performance.
A performance psychology approach in business
We intervene with a model from Mental Preparation, originating from elite sport and transferable to business to concretely improve:
- Managing complex situations
- Decision-making quality
- Stress and emotion regulation
The Aptitude & Challenges Profile (PAD): A structuring tool for understanding
- its natural strengths
- its areas of tension
- his reactions under pressure
The Fundamentals of Mental Preparation
We are working, in particular, on:
- Energy management
- Stress and emotion management
- Self-esteem in a professional setting
- Motivation and objectives
- Concentration and attention
Concrete, results-oriented programmes
– Sales Performance
Our programme Sales Performance Allows: Thank you.
- gaining clarity in the situation
- strengthen discernment
- Improve decision-making
- Improve execution quality
– Performance Manager
Our programme Performance Manager allows you to:
- Develop managerial posture
- better manage tensions
- improve the quality of interactions
- deciding in a complex environment
Finding Your Flow: Performance & Wellbeing
We are working on two complementary dimensions:
Performance fluidity
- mental clarity
- Discernment
- decision-making ability
- Execution quality
Wellness fluidity
- emotional stability
- Relationship quality
- Sustainable energy
- sense of alignment
It is this combination that allows access to a state of sustainable equilibrium.
A differentiating factor: mother tongue
We support our clients in France and internationally, in their native language.
- greater accuracy in exchanges
- a more refined understanding of situations
- a more sustainable anchoring of transformations
Mental training: a still under-exploited lever in business
If we look more closely at the mechanisms behind burnout at work, one constant emerges:
Difficulty regulating one's internal state in demanding situations.
However, this ability is neither down to chance nor solely to experience.
It rests on an element that is still little structured within organisations:
Mental training.
Why does mental training concretely change the game?
In elite sport, it is accepted that an athlete cannot perform sustainably without mental training.
In business, this lever remains largely under-exploited.
And yet, the stakes are identical:
- to decide under pressure
- maintain the quality of attention
- managing emotions in interaction
- remain aligned in unstable environments
Without specific training, these situations become costly.
With tailored training, they become manageable.
The key principles of mental preparation applied to business
Mental preparation isn't about occasionally “managing” difficulties.
It aims to to structure a more stable and higher-performing internal operation.
It relies in particular on:
- the ability to taking a step back in a situation
- training Read the contexts carefully
- energy and engagement level regulation
- the adjustment of emotional reactions
- The development of attentional quality
So many skills that directly influence performance... and fatigue.
Concrete, immediately applicable techniques
In our support sessions, we work from real-life situations to develop operational reflexes.
- to know how to identify signs of overload before rupture
- Adjusting one's level of engagement according to the context
- to regain clarity in moments of tension
- structure your decision-making
- maintain a quality of presence in the interaction
This work allows a gradual transition from a reactive functioning to a controlled functioning.
Why guided support makes the difference
These skills can be tackled alone. But without a structured framework, they often remain:
- Partial
- irregular
- difficult to transfer to everyday life
Accompaniment allows for:
- to bring a precise diagnosis
- to benefit from a structuring external appearance
- to anchor practices in concrete situations
- to accelerate the raising of awareness and adjustments
It is this structured initiation of action that enables new capabilities to be sustainably established.
👉 Result:
- smoother and more consistent performance over time
- greater control over situations
- a reduction in unnecessary fatigue
- an improvement in decision-making quality
In summary
Burnout at work doesn't just come from workload.
- The environment
- perception
- the ability to regulate situations
This is where our support is located.
To extend the reflection
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