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.