Book cover: Palla Trycket by Karin Otterbjörk

Palla Trycket – Karin Otterbjörk's Book on Sustainable Self-Leadership

Palla Trycket is a practical book about how you — with a few clear tools and strategies — can build sustainable self-leadership. It also helps you, in the role of a manager, lead others in that same positive direction. The book is currently available in Swedish.

What makes the book unique is that it:

  • Makes self-leadership concrete. You get clear explanations and examples showing how to strengthen self-leadership in yourself and others.
  • Gives insight into what affects energy and motivation. The book explains, in a motivating way, how our levels of energy, drive, calm and recovery are connected — and how you can influence them.
  • Offers simple, effective advice. You get practical tips for building good habits and sustainable ways of working, both for yourself and for your employees.
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This is not a book about how to recover once stress has made you ill, or how to avoid sick leave — although the tools described here can certainly help with that too. The aim instead is to give everyone who wants to strengthen their mental capacity accessible knowledge of how a half-full glass can be filled to the brim. The hope is also that the book will inspire more managers and leaders to work with these important questions.

Karin Otterbjörk, author of Palla Trycket

The Book Palla Trycket

Rapid change, time pressure, unclear expectations and demands mean that many of us walk around with constantly elevated cortisol levels. Even the things that are fun and give us a pleasant boost affect us, and it can become hard to wind down and recover. To feel well and perform well over time, you need to actively strengthen your ability to "handle the pressure" — to palla trycket.

This book shows how you build sustainable self-leadership, leading yourself step by step toward a life in balance. You get concrete tools and tips tied to the three foundations of self-leadership:

  1. Self-awareness
  2. Direction and goals
  3. Self-regulation and habits

You learn how to ease your stress, and you get the keys to the systems that create motivation and recovery. With simple mental tools and "brain-friendly" habits, you will change your energy and create the working life and life you actually want.

The book also describes how, as a leader, you can give your employees the conditions to develop and practise self-leadership — how you act as a role model and contribute to a culture that encourages it.

The book was born out of the conviction that our own personal sustainability is something every employee today needs to take responsibility for. Of course, the right conditions need to be in place — leadership, culture and structures — but there's no getting around the fact that we each need to do our part.

Karin Otterbjörk, author of the book Palla Trycket

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For all employees, regardless of role

Palla Trycket – Leading yourself to sustainable self-leadership

  • Self-awareness — how you function and what you need.
  • The ability to work toward goals and what you want to achieve.
  • Practical and mental tools and habits that create energy and motivation.

For leaders who want to future-proof their leadership, now and going forward

Palla Trycket – Leading others to sustainable self-leadership

  • Tools and habits that help you keep your energy, motivation and ability to lead over time.
  • Leadership abilities that strengthen your employees' energy and motivation.
  • Implementing and developing self-leadership among your employees.
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Palla Trycket is for both employees and managers

Palla Trycket is for both employees and managers. Everyone benefits from developing their self-leadership, whatever their role. The book Palla Trycket – leading yourself and others to sustainable self-leadership was written as a hands-on guide, drawing on the experience and expertise Karin has built up by working with the subject for more than 10 years. The book is currently available in Swedish.

The book also describes how, as a leader, you can give your employees the conditions to develop and practise self-leadership — how you act as a role model and contribute to a culture that encourages it.

The book was born out of the conviction that our own personal sustainability is something every employee today needs to take responsibility for. If we do, our chances of a genuinely good working life and life in general increase. Karin calls the path there sustainable self-leadership. Sustainability means that, as an individual, you have the stamina, the will and the ability over time — that is when you can sustain high levels of both wellbeing and performance. Taking responsibility for our own personal sustainability is the most important task of today and tomorrow, for individuals and organisations alike.

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