Friday, September 12, 2025

Following last week’s discussion on the prevalence of burnout and the importance of recharging, we continue our Creating a Culture of Recharging series by taking a closer look at how stress shows up at work—and what to do about it.
As you might recall, the first part of this series introduced how our brain functions under stress and what effective recharging does to restore it. In this next part, we shift focus to the real-world experience of stress in the workplace, with practical examples and tools to help leaders and teams monitor and manage it together.
In the video below, we introduce the Stress Thermometer—a simple but powerful tool to help your team recognize their stress levels, identify early warning signs, and use a shared language to talk about stress before it becomes a crisis.
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Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley is a Registered Psychologist with two decades of professional experience in clinical psychology, health psychology, and organizational psychology. She has extensive applied experience and research knowledge on burnout, psychological safety in the workplace, behaviour and organizational change, and wellness leadership. She is an internationally recognized expert in human behavior. She conducts innovative research at Dalhousie and Saint Mary’s University, with a distinguished track record of 55 peer-reviewed publications and over 140 scholarly presentations. She is the author of "Healthy Habits Suck: How to get off the couch and live a healthy life even if you don’t want to"

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