Focus on Mental Health as a Gamechanger
Let’s talk with Toto Wolff  | 
Mercedes Team Principal, F1

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Stress is a completely individual event and represents the result of a cognitive evaluation process. Thus, it is not so much the environmental conditions themselves that cause us stress, but rather our evaluation and interpretation of them. If we learn to control this cognitive evaluation, we can better control our mental and physical stress reactions.

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Burnout syndrome is not an illness that appears overnight. It creeps slowly into our everyday lives – one describes 12 phases here in psychology. Depending on which phase a person is in and what the individual triggers for the overload are, it needs a personally tailored consultation and treatment. Professional support is indispensable at this point.

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In order to be able to treat chronic stress or even burnout in the long term, you need not only a professional diagnosis but also good cooperation in a multi-professional team. Psychologists play a major role here in that damaging thought patterns can be uncovered and worked on. The goal is not to eliminate all stressors. The goal is to learn to deal better with everyday stressors.

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Burnout in particular creeps into our everyday lives rather slowly and is often only consciously noticed when it is already far advanced. If we learn to recognize our warning signals at an early stage, we have the opportunity to react to them in a targeted and active way and to prevent being completely “burnt out”. As a manager, you also bear some responsibility for the health of your employees. Always keep an eye out for possible warning signals in your team.

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Mental health not only has an impact on individual well-being but also on your company’s key performance indicators in the long term. Sick leave, work motivation, and satisfaction as well as the team climate suffer massively when mental fitness is out of balance. By investing in the health of your workforce, you are also investing directly in the success of your company!

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Your health also counts – both physically and mentally! Therefore, always try to be a good role model for your employees by taking care of your own health and a good work-life balance.