2022 Mental Health Virtual Master Class: The Simple Yet Sustainable Solutions to Employee Burnout

We’ve gotten so used to hearing the terms burnout that, in a way, we’ve come to accept it. But burnout and stress are literally killing people. Individuals are being hospitalized because of stress, they’re having heart attacks, and in some cases, are on the verge of suicide. Coming to terms with this reality and accepting the facts is crucial because employees’ lives are quite literally on the line. In this segment, you’ll learn the shocking statistics and research that will catalyze you into making burnout elimination your top priority.

The realities of burnout vary greatly depending on your employees’ demographics, work situations, personalities, and circumstances. And knowing exactly what burnout looks, sounds, and feels like for each sub-group of employees it important in order to properly address their needs. In this segment, we’ll walk through various situations of employees and how burnout differs between men, women, people who work from home vs. in the office, etc. In addition, you’ll learn about how the nature of burnout has changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and what to expect in the future.

Burnout is often a result of a combination of forces. Some of those forces are self-imposed, and others come from the organization – but it’s important to know the difference, when to empower employees to help themselves, and also when the organization needs to make a change to the overall culture. In this session, you’ll learn what the real root causes of burnout are, according to global research, as well as the often-unspoken expectations permeating the culture that can deteriorate employee wellbeing.

Nothing is worse that an inauthentic attempt at improving the wellbeing of employees – employees can sense that from a mile away. So, organizations need to first take a hard look at the behavior of leaders – CEO included. There is significant research that proves that wellbeing is contagious within an organization and that a manager with high wellbeing automatically has a team with higher wellbeing. In this session we’ll discuss the unique role of an executive in reducing employee burnout and go through an exercise on how to be vulnerable and authentic about your own wellbeing challenges.

Tackling burnout properly requires a short- and long-term strategy. And a good burnout strategy is really a “wellbeing strategy.” We’ll explore exactly what a great strategy looks like, and you’ll also learn what you can do right now and over the next few months to start seeing immediate results in employee morale and wellbeing. In addition, you’ll understand what needs to happen at the company and leadership level as well as how to train your mid-level managers to empower their teams.

Do you have any lingering questions or want to revisit a fundamental concept or two from earlier in the workshop? Use this interactive time to get clarification from the speaker before the master class ends.