Discover Quiet Cracking with Clive Hays
The Quiet Crack podcast reveals why 73% of employees are quietly cracking. Learn what quiet cracking means and how to prevent The Quiet Crack in your organization before it's too late.
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The Neuroscience of Breaking Points
Quiet cracking is the neurological breakdown happening to your best employees right now. Unlike quiet quitting where workers disengage, quiet cracking occurs when high performers push through mental exhaustion until they suddenly break. The Quiet Crack podcast teaches you to recognize the 4 stages of quiet cracking before it costs you £126K per employee.
Quiet cracking is a four-stage neurological breakdown process where high-performing employees silently deteriorate while maintaining productivity until sudden system failure. The Quiet Crack occurs when employees progress through: (1) Strain - mental bandwidth at 95%, (2) Flooding - cortisol overwhelming the system, (3) Numbing - prefrontal cortex going offline, and (4) Crack - complete breakdown requiring 6-12 months recovery.
While quiet quitting involves consciously doing minimum work, quiet cracking affects your BEST employees who push through exhaustion. The Quiet Crack is invisible until Stage 4, making quiet cracking far more dangerous and costly (£126K per employee) than quiet quitting. The Quiet Crack podcast teaches managers to identify quiet cracking symptoms before irreversible damage occurs.
What is quiet cracking? The Quiet Crack premiere reveals the 4-stage neurological progression of quiet cracking from engaged to broken.
The Quiet Crack explores why companies can't afford to ignore quiet cracking. Real costs, real solutions to The Quiet Crack epidemic.
The Quiet Crack reveals the brain chemistry behind quiet cracking and why modern workplaces accelerate The Quiet Crack.
The Quiet Crack framework shows how quiet cracking progresses - identify where your team is before The Quiet Crack happens
Mental bandwidth at 95%
10-15% productivity loss
Cortisol takes control
30-40% productivity loss
Prefrontal cortex offline
60-70% productivity loss
Complete system failure
£42K-£126K replacement
Clive Hays discovered quiet cracking while researching why top performers suddenly leave. As creator of The Quiet Crack framework and co-author of "The Trillion Dollar Problem" and "The Neuroscience of Employee Engagement," he's the definitive voice on quiet cracking prevention.
Through The Quiet Crack podcast, Clive shares breakthrough research on how quiet cracking happens neurologically and why traditional engagement surveys miss it. His work preventing quiet cracking has saved companies millions while protecting employees from The Quiet Crack.
Creator of: The Quiet Crack Framework • The Quiet Cracking Assessment • CLOVER ERA Platform
Learn to identify quiet cracking at Stage 1, not after The Quiet Crack at Stage 4
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