Boss Burnout

There is a lot of talk and writing about burnout at work and how we can prevent it from happening on an individual level, and how important the role of leadership and middle management is to create a healthy work culture, and to support their staff so they do not burnout.

Often the conversation starts from the perspective of the team, or team member. From their needs. And it is a very important perspective.

Being a burnout survivor myself, and having coached and trained both managers, leaders, and staff on how to avoid, recognize and recover from burnout, I do think that we often place a lot of pressure on the manager to support staff's well-being, but we forget the well-being of the manager. In particular those stuck in the middle between senior leadership and the teams. The ones that are tasked to turn the vision into action and result.

This is why today's episode is on Boss Burnout.

To create a culture where leaders and managers feel that they have the right to a healthy and balanced life, with time for rest, togetherness, learning, love, and career fulfillment - we need to change our thinking about what leadership is, what managers do and what a high performing business culture is.

Burnout is not an individual's problem.  It is a cultural and structural problem. To eliminate today's burnout-culture we need a shift in values and priorities.

At work:

Talk about workload, and level of stress

Review your policies and values - where is the focus?

Hold leaders and managers accountable for the health and well-being in the organization

Empower your middle manager to dare to self-care

Ensure that they allow staff to care for their health and well-being also

Be a role model yourself

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