A Leader's Guide to Reducing Team Burnout
1h 8mBeginner2022-08-03
Authors
Colleen Hauk
Workplace Leadership Expert, Trainer, Speaker, Author

Madecraft
Full-Service Learning Content Company
Course details
Burnout is everywhere. It’s hard to find a more pervasive problem for employees in today's work world. So, what’s a leader to do? How can you continue to drive results when your team is completely burnt out? In this course, tenured leader and executive coach Colleen Hauk shares insights and practical advice on how you can combat burnout for your team.
Explore some of the high-level details of burnout, including what it is, why it happens, what the signs are that your team is experiencing it, and how you can step in to intervene. Discover the importance of taking care of yourself as a leader and modeling anti-burnout behaviors for your team. Colleen shows you how to better engage with specific individuals and tailor your approach to fit everyone’s unique needs. Along the way, find out how to use some of her preferred leadership tools to help support your team's overall well-being—fanning brightness, not burnout.
Explore some of the high-level details of burnout, including what it is, why it happens, what the signs are that your team is experiencing it, and how you can step in to intervene. Discover the importance of taking care of yourself as a leader and modeling anti-burnout behaviors for your team. Colleen shows you how to better engage with specific individuals and tailor your approach to fit everyone’s unique needs. Along the way, find out how to use some of her preferred leadership tools to help support your team's overall well-being—fanning brightness, not burnout.
Skills covered
Management SkillsTalent ManagementWell-Being and Self-CareHuman ResourcesProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Guiding teams through burnout
1. Illuminating Burnout
- 02 - What is burnout
- 03 - What are the signs
- 04 - What are the causes
- 05 - What is the impact
2. The Foundation of You
- 06 - Using emotional intelligence
- 07 - Walking the talk
- 08 - Sharing the reality
- 09 - Working with managers
3. Engaging the Individual
- 10 - Building the basic elements
- 11 - Balancing the communication
- 12 - Driving results with wellbeing in mind
4. Strengthening the Unit
- 13 - Rethinking your meetings
- 14 - Designing the environment
- 15 - Creating unique solutions
5. Tools for the Team
- 16 - Evolving the mindset
- 17 - Reconditioning health
- 18 - Providing additional resources
Conclusion
- 19 - Flaming brightness, not burnout
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