How to Help Yourself and Your Employees in Stressful Conditions. Preventing Burnout
Aim
- Getting to know about and renewing your internal resources, overcoming routine and burnout
- Knowing how to recognize burnout signals in your employees and caring for them
Duration: 4 hours
Working methods: a theoretical insight into developing an understanding, discussions, practical exercises and situational analysis
Target audience: middle-level managers
The active involvement of participants is a precondition for a successful learning process!
Programme:
1. Burnout – the concept and its nature:
- burnout symptoms - physical emotional and cognitive;
- development stages of burnout;
- how to recognize burnout in yourself and others?
2. The significance of the working environment and a manager's actions in employee burnout. What is it in working conditions that facilitates burnout?
3. Working from home and the impact of the pandemic – additional risks.
4. Preventing burnout – working on yourself first and only then with others. A manager’s example.
5. Interviewing a burnt-out colleague – how to support an employee without doing yourself harm?
6. Personal skills:
- maintaining life balance;
- caring for one's health;
- learning about one's values and motivation;
- practicing positive thinking;
- the ability to calmly accept criticism;
- the ability to protect one's boundaries and say NO;
- self-awareness;
- searching for social support.
7. A manager’s skills for helping employees:
- restoring self-esteem;
- positive feedback;
- emotional support;
- success stories;
- creating a positive psychological climate;
- communicating organizational development;
- providing professional support;
- matching positions;
- reviewing working conditions.
If this is required at the corporate level, the programme can be adapted to the specific nature and needs of the company.