“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.” — Arianna Huffington
A principal I coach — call him John — used to measure his office’s health by how late the lights stayed on. Longer hours felt like commitment to him. To his team, it felt like the thing that was quietly pushing them out the door. By the time he asked me for help, he’d lost three good agents to burnout in a single year and hadn’t connected the dots.
Would your best people say your office genuinely supports their wellbeing, or just talks about it?
The Businesses Getting This Right
The strongest-performing leaders I work with are making three shifts: staying genuinely current on wellness trends instead of treating them as a fad, closing the gap between what their people actually value and what the business provides, and focusing their energy on the factors they can control or influence — not the ones they can’t.
That third shift matters most. Leaders can directly control unrealistic targets, unclear role expectations, and low recognition. They can meaningfully influence excessive hours, time pressure, decision-making input, manager support and workplace conflict. With 75 per cent of the global workforce being millennials by 2025, ignoring either category isn’t a values problem — it’s a retention problem.
Feeling this one? You don’t have to figure it out alone — book a free High Performance Call and let’s talk through where you’re at.
Four Global Trends Worth Building Around
- A genuine focus on health and fitness, not just gestures toward it.
- Real flexibility in how and when work happens.
- Training in emotional intelligence, stress management and mindfulness.
- Telecommuting and location flexibility where the role allows it.
Take action: Ask your team, anonymously if you have to, which of the controllable or influenceable factors above is hurting them the most — then actually fix it.
This is what an Awesome Human workplace looks like: wellness treated as strategy, not decoration. Look after the humans, and the numbers follow.
If you’re ready to build that kind of team, book a free High Performance Call.
About Jet Xavier
Jet Xavier is a High Performance mindset and accountability coach who works with real estate agents, principals and team leaders to build sustainable, high-performing careers. Learn more about Jet.
This piece began as a column for Elite Agent — you can read the original here.
