{"id":801,"date":"2019-02-26T14:01:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T14:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleepdunwoody.com\/blog\/?p=801"},"modified":"2021-01-27T19:16:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T19:16:50","slug":"want-to-be-a-better-leader-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleepdunwoody.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/26\/want-to-be-a-better-leader-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Be a Better Leader? Sleep."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Good leaders tend to have a few standard traits, such as emotional intelligence, passion and charisma, and good problem-solving abilities. These traits pioneer organizational success by contributing to high individual morale while allowing leaders to make decisions that are in the best interest of the organization or company as a whole. As it turns out, many of the traits needed for effective leadership are positively boosted by sleep, or conversely, negatively impacted by a lack of sufficient sleep.
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The amount of sleep that a leader gets – and the \u201csleep culture\u201d that they convey to their subordinates – are crucial but often forgotten factors in an entity\u2019s organizational fabric. Sleep culture includes behaviors such as answering emails late at night or praising employees who do so, and because subordinates look to leaders for cues about workplace behavior, the poor sleep habits of upper management are likely to rub off on the team. In fact, one study<\/a> showed that, when bosses slept poorly, they were more likely to exhibit abusive behavior the next day – contributing to lower levels of engagement and morale among subordinates.
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And poor sleep among leaders may be more common than we\u2019d like to believe. One recent report showed that 42% of leaders get 6 hours of sleep or fewer<\/a> each night. Many leaders may believe that it\u2019s more worthwhile to spend their hours squeezing in as much strategic thinking, emails or planning as possible, but research consistently shows that one of the most important things a leader can do to improve their performance (as well as the performance of their company) is to get more sleep.
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Don\u2019t believe us? Here\u2019s proof that demonstrates the effects that lack of sleep has on each of the leadership qualities mentioned above (emotional intelligence, passion and charisma, and effective problem-solving capabilities).
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