Monica Crawford: Human Performance Consultant, Speaker, Author

Your employees’ health is affecting your revenue and scalability, whether you’re paying attention to it or not.

Your employees don’t leave their health at home when they walk into work.

Chronic stress, poor sleep, low energy, physical inactivity, poor nutrition, mental exhaustion, they all come to work with them.

When the human being is depleted, performance eventually follows, affecting productivity, retention, revenue, and the organization’s ability to scale.

The questions organizational leaders need to be asking are:

Does the way work is structured leave people with enough mental and physical capacity to take care of themselves outside of work? Or are they so depleted by the end of the day that sleep, movement, nutrition, and self-care become the first things to go?

Does your organization actually make employee health a priority, through the resources you provide, the conversations you have, and the example your leaders set around boundaries and taking care of themselves?

When someone is struggling, do they feel safe asking for support, or do they feel like admitting they’re struggling will make them look weak or less committed?

The infrastructure surrounding the employee either supports healthy behavior or makes it harder.

Employees still have a responsibility to take care of themselves. Organizations have a responsibility to create an environment where doing that is actually possible.

When both sides do their part, you don’t just get healthier employees. You get people with more capacity to lead, perform, contribute, and stay, which means stronger productivity, better retention, greater revenue, and a stronger ability to scale.

That is human performance.

Employee health isn’t a wellness issue. It’s a business strategy.

What would change inside your organization if employee health was treated as part of the performance strategy instead of something separate from it?

Not every battle deserves another round.

I wore the badge before I wore the heels. Somewhere between the two, I learned that standing tall isn’t always about standing your ground.

There was a version of me who believed being strong meant constantly fighting harder to prove myself or stand up for myself. This was the s**t I knew wasn’t right, but I convinced myself I could handle.

For a long time, I thought that’s how things had to be. Then I learned that sometimes strength means knowing when to put the sword down and knowing when to walk away.

In my book, “Stand Tall & Take No Sh*t,” I wrote:

“At some point, you have to make the decision to set down the fight.”

That decision changed everything.

“Stand Tall & Take No Sh*t,” is the story of when I recognized I would never be enough for the wrong people. Which meant leaning into knowing my value, my worth, and removing myself from environments where others could not see that.

This is where I took back control to live, lead, heal, and build a life on my own terms as an entrepreneur.

It’s messy, it’s honest, and it’s uncomfortable.

You don’t have to become harder to survive hard things. Sometimes you have to become strong enough to finally walk away from them.

My story, my lessons, your permission to Stand Tall & Take No Sh*t.🔥

Grab your copy here:
https://a.co/d/bAGfUoB

📸 Amanda Hitchen Photography

I lost myself in trying to please others.

Eventually, I learned something that took me a long time to understand.

Someone else’s inability to treat you well doesn’t automatically mean you did something wrong. Sometimes you simply triggered something in them that they haven’t dealt with in themselves.

That doesn’t mean you have to tolerate it.

You can acknowledge that someone else’s behavior isn’t about you and still decide you don’t want it in your life.

That’s a big part of what my book, “Stand Tall & Take No Sh*t,” is about.

Becoming someone who knows who they are, knows what they will and won’t tolerate, and has the courage to stand by that.

🔥 Stand tall. Know your worth. Take no s**t.

Grab your copy here:
https://a.co/d/bAGfUoB

After being a Division I gymnast, cop, coach, entrepreneur, and someone who has become borderline obsessed with human performance, I’ve learned a few things about people.

Some from experience, some from watching other people make the same mistakes I did, and some from getting my ass handed to me by life.

These are just a few of my random hot takes.

You don’t have to agree with me, but I’m curious…

Which one stood out to you most?

And yes, CrossFitters… I already know Slide 7 is going to p**s somebody off. 😂

Employee health isn’t solely an individual responsibility.

It isn’t solely an organizational responsibility either.

Both sides have a role to play.

You can tell employees to prioritize sleep, eat well, move their bodies, and take care of themselves.

If the culture rewards 12-hour days, constant availability, impossible workloads, and sacrificing personal needs for the job, you’re making those healthy behaviors harder to execute.

You don’t get to demand sustainable performance while creating an environment that makes sustainability nearly impossible.

Agree or disagree? What’s your take?

We are really good at judging people by how they show up.

They’re short with people, they’re disengaged, and they’re not acting like themselves.

❌ So we label the behavior.

What we don’t always do is stop long enough to ask why.

💭 What would change inside your organization if employee health was treated as part of the performance strategy?

I go into more detail in my recent Lead Yourself First article titled “You can’t separate the employee from the human being.”

Read it here: https://www.five0fierceandfit.com/post/youcantseparatetheemployeefromthehumanbeing

𝗜𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲, 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲.

Every morning, I walked through the squad room and saw our department’s core values on the wall. The public saw one version of the organization. I knew what was happening behind closed doors.

That disconnect eventually affected my health and was one of the reasons I walked away.

In this week’s 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 article, I unpack what I learned and why employee health is more than a benefit. It’s part of the infrastructure that drives performance, retention, and growth.

You’ll also see the simple foundation organizations and individuals can use to support human performance, and what happens when both sides actually do their part.

Check out the full article here:
https://www.five0fierceandfit.com/post/youcantseparatetheemployeefromthehumanbeing