Preventing & Overcoming Workplace Burnout

Our Burnout Prevention workshops provide practical strategies for leaders, managers, and employees to overcome burnout and help organizations thrive.

Overview:

Burnout is physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion resulting from chronic, unmanaged workplace stress. The negative consequences include energy depletion, feeling mentally distanced from one’s job, and feeling less able to meet work demands. In the workplace, burnout leads to lost productivity, decreased energy and concentration, increased conflict, illness, and leaves of absence. It affects relationships and quality of life both personally and professionally.

Target Audience:

  • Corporate and nonprofit organizations. Healthcare, education, emergency response and public sectors.

  • This training can be customized for conferences, workplace leadership, managers, teams and employees who want to increase their capacity to prevent burnout and create a healthy organizational culture.

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Sample burnout prevention workshop for Employees

Burnout Prevention: Thriving In A Stressed-out World

Learning Objectives

  • Learn an evidence-based model of burnout and understand why it has escalated in recent years.

  • Unpack common myths about burnout.

  • Discover how burnout relates to quiet quitting, a lack of engagement, reduced productivity and lowered innovation.

  • Learn how to identify burnout by its effects on seven areas of well-being.

  • Discover evidence-based strategies to prevent and reduce workplace burnout.

  • Engage in small-group discussions and large-group debriefs for deeper learning and greater engagement.

Sample burnout workshops for Leaders & Managers

Burnout Prevention: Six Factors Of Organizational Culture

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn the factors that create burnout in the workplace and how they practically play out in an organization.

  • Understand how the pandemic affected employees’ long-term physical and mental health, emotional and relational health, and work-life balance.

  • Learn an evidence-based definition of burnout and how it leads to quiet quitting, lack of engagement, lower productivity and resignations.

  • Discover six research-based organizational culture factors that affect employee burnout risk and how they play out in the workplace.

  • Engage in discussions to identify how the factors present within your organization.

  • Brainstorm ways in which to address the challenges uncovered.

  • Participate in an exercise to identify the top 1-2 factors affecting your workplace to create focus areas.

  • Collaborate to create an action plan for addressing these factors.

Evaluating & Preventing Employee Burnout Throughout Your Organization

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will receive a direct link to the Burnout Assessment for completion prior to the workshop.

  • Introduction to the Burnout Assessment. Learn how to use the Burnout Assessment throughout your organization to monitor employee burnout risk through research-based factors of organizational culture.

  • Learn how to identify potential burnout warning signs early in employees to prevent burnout and foster wellness for greater productivity and longevity.

  • Implementing the Burnout Assessment process. Learn how leaders and managers can implement the Burnout Assessment and support direct reports to prevent and overcome burnout.

  • How to open the conversation with critical questions. Learn how to have psychologically safe conversations with direct reports to discuss employee concerns. Learn essential questions wise leaders ask to open the conversation about burnout for effective conversations.

  • Providing resources and support to employees. Provide crucial strategies and practical solutions with customized support and resources.

Client Testimonials:

  • “Bonita is an exceptional facilitator – her engaging workshop provided us with the guidance needed to create clear, actionable ways to manage and prevent burnout as individuals and as a broader team. We’re deeply appreciative of her insights and recommend her services no matter how strong your workplace culture is.”

    Cynthia Goodwin, CEO, CCGoodwin Consulting

  • “Bonita is a passionate, knowledgeable professional who is an absolute joy to work with. If you choose to work with Bonita, you will not be disappointed. Excellent speaker with great poise and presence. HRPA would definitely welcome the opportunity to work with Bonita again in the future.”

    Sacha Williams - Learning & Development Professional, Human Resources Professionals Association

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