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A Leader’s Guide to Reducing Team Burnout

A Leader’s Guide to Reducing Team Burnout

Total video time: 1h 8m
Award-winning instructor: Colleen Hauk
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What you’ll learn

Understand the warning signs of burnout
Identify and combat your team's burnout
Model anti-burnout behaviors
Help your team re-engage at work
Design meetings for optimal engagement

Skills you’ll gain

Leadership Communication Emotional intelligence

Burnout has become an increasingly prevalent problem for employees in today's world. So, as a leader, how are you supposed to continue to drive results when your team is burnt out? In this course, you'll hear from tenured leader and executive coach Colleen Hauk on how you can combat burnout for your team. Colleen first explains some high-level details of burnout, including what it is, why it happens, and what the signs are that your team is burnt out. She then shares the importance of taking care of yourself as a leader, modeling anti-burnout behaviors for your team. Colleen goes on to discuss how you can better engage with specific individuals and tailor your approach, as well as diving into team shifts leaders can make to cut down on burnout. Finally, she reviews her tools that can be used to help support your team's overall wellbeing. After this course, you'll be able to combat the threat of team burnout with ease, helping your team re-engage with work and feel excited to do so.

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    Guiding teams through burnout As a leader, you're responsible for promoting the wellbeing of your employees, which includes helping to reduce feelings of burnout, stress, or frustration. 1m
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    What is burnout? You've heard the term "burnout", but what does it truly mean? 4m
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    What are the signs? There are several key indicators of burnout that you'll want to keep an eye out within your team. 3m
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    What are the causes? Burnout can stem from a number of different places. 3m
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    What is the impact? Your direct reports are experiencing burnout but you may not realize the effect it has outside of the individual person. 3m
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    Using emotional intelligence Leaders inform the emotional state of their teams so a lack of emotional intelligence can be devastating to your organization. 3m
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    Walking the talk Research has found that managers have higher burnout and stress than those they manage. 3m
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    Sharing the reality A common mistake leaders make is presenting a false sense of togetherness when they themselves are experiencing burnout. 3m
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    Working with managers Managers are the single most important factor in engagement and performance of your workforce. 3m
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    Building the basic elements Emotions have a ripple effect so in order to reduce team burnout you must begin with the individual. 3m
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    Balancing the communication Communication is a crucial skill for leaders and a key component to mobilizing others. 4m
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    Driving results with wellbeing in mind Leaders who are able to focus equally on results and people are seen as great an overwhelming majority of the time. 3m
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    Rethinking your meetings The way in which meetings have been planned, organized and executed in the past will no longer meet the evolution of the workforce. 4m
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    Designing the environment The stress of a fast-paced workplace, over-abundant workload, and high-volume working hours all contribute to burnout. 3m
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    Creating unique solutions Burnout doesn't discriminate - it spans across every group and industry, so the best ideas could be outside of the walls of your company. 3m
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    Evolving the mindset A certain type and level of stress is necessary for survival and high performance. 3m
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    Reconditioning health If organizations want to increase engagement and performance, leaders must be able to acknowledge and improve wellbeing in the workplace. 3m
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    Providing additional resources Many companies have expanded services related to mental health, such as counseling and enrichment programs, but often employees are unaware of or misunderstand these services. 3m
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    Flaming brightness, not burnout Thanks for watching this course! Now, you should feel confident in your ability to combat burnout for yourself and your team members. 2m

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

Awarded upon successful completion of the course.

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Instructor

Colleen Hauk

Colleen Hauk spent 15 years in corporate specializing in training and leading sales teams. Her leadership and personal development skills were honed when she experienced first-hand the negative effects of poor leadership and lack of self-care. She transformed the workplace culture from toxic to thriving and, after suffering her own breaking point, she altered her circumstances and developed successful methods to become a sustained, elite leader.Colleen is now a speaker, trainer, consultant and co-author of two books, including the bestseller, Women Who Ignite. She shows organizations how to reduce turnover by creating top-tier leaders. Colleen has appeared in Forbes and Best Self and delivered her keynotes and trainings to Fortune 500 companies and organizations such as Dell, Pfizer, Panasonic, Merck, New York Life, and US Foods.

Founder of Colleen Hauk Balance Point Coaching Colleen Hauk

Colleen Hauk

Founder of Colleen Hauk Balance Point Coaching

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