Emotional Disconnection Between Leaders and EmployeesMental health in the workplace is significantly impacted when employees experience emotional disconnection from their leaders. For years, we have been bombarded with leadership mantras, motivational speakers, and gurus who espouse their innovative, evidence-based, best practices meant to marvel, inspire and drive productivity in the masses. Leaders who are excited to teach their employees new models, new strategies and new evaluations believe they will profit from greater teamwork, increase production, and yield greater economic results.What leaders ignore is the toll it takes on their employees. Employees are feeling an incredible amount of pressure to perform, are faced with more work and fewer resources, and have less emotional support. Consequently, there is a great emotional disconnection with leaders, managers and their employees. This emotional disconnection arises when employees sniff out their disingenuous leaders energetically offering new and improved strategies, but in reality, they are piling up more work and forcing employees to continually outperform themselves. This disconnect fosters anxiety at work, strains mental wellness in the workplace, and affects overall workplace well-being, leading to an unhealthy and unproductive environment.How Does Emotional Disconnection Affect Mental Health at Work?Employees often feel overwhelmed, leading to incompetence and extended working hours, while others adopt a “work to rule” mentality. This approach fails to alleviate mental health challenges in the workplace, with outcomes like depression and anxiety at work. Emotional disconnection between leaders and employees creates a tense, unhealthy work environment, impacting mental health and well-being.The disconnect affects employee mental health. Lack of support and pressure lead to burnout, stress, and symptoms of poor mental health. As work-life balance declines, mental wellness in the workplace suffers. Addressing mental health requires leaders to foster a psychologically healthy [...]