Encourage Work-Life Balance

Recognizing the importance of work-life balance, especially in a remote setting, successful women leaders implement policies and practices that promote well-being. This could include flexible working hours, mental health days, and encouraging time off. By showing they care about their team's health and happiness, they not only boost morale but also prevent burnout, ensuring long-term productivity and loyalty.

Recognizing the importance of work-life balance, especially in a remote setting, successful women leaders implement policies and practices that promote well-being. This could include flexible working hours, mental health days, and encouraging time off. By showing they care about their team's health and happiness, they not only boost morale but also prevent burnout, ensuring long-term productivity and loyalty.

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Muge Gul
Site Is Manager at Valeo

By actively encouraging flexibility and modeling healthy work habits, women leaders show that they value their team's well-being. Offering flexible working hours, promoting the importance of taking breaks, and respecting personal time are crucial actions. These leaders often emphasize that quality work matters more than quantity and that taking time off to recharge is not only acceptable but encouraged.

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Suresh Ommi
Founder and CEO at Agile Global Services

Work-life balance is not a luxury; it is a necessity for sustained performance and team well-being. In my experience leading large transformation programmes, the most effective teams are the ones where leaders actively create space for their people to recharge, set boundaries and maintain their health. Encouraging work-life balance goes beyond flexible schedules or occasional mental health days. It is about building a culture where people feel trusted to manage their time, empowered to speak up when they are overloaded and supported in their personal commitments as much as their professional goals. When leaders model this behaviour themselves, it sends a powerful signal that productivity and well-being are equally valued. I have seen how these practices reduce burnout, improve retention and boost creativity. Teams that feel rested and supported bring more focus to their work, collaborate more effectively and are more willing to go the extra mile when challenges arise. In today’s hybrid and remote environments, where the lines between personal and professional life can blur easily, making work-life balance a leadership priority is not just good for employees, it is a strategic move that ensures long-term organisational resilience and loyalty.

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