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If the necessary prevention is neglected, burnout syndrome may appear suddenly and unexpectedly with a hugely negative effect on both your team and the mental health of the affected worker. If you sense your team members are becoming overwhelmed and might be at risk of burning out, you should start putting the following six tips into practice as prevention.
These tips appeared on the Center for Creative Leadership website.
Routine and monotony are frequent triggers of despair and burnout. Let employees organise their work on their own and support them in testing new procedures and methods.
Stop dealing with your team in a generic way and focus on developing personalised relationships with individual employees. To do this, focus on regular assessment meetings with subordinates.
Make an audit of your internal processes and determine whether they may cause an overload of some employees.
When assessing the workload and efficiency of individual employees, consider whether the evaluation parameters are set up correctly, whether they may be obsolete and if they correspond to reality.
Many managers officially promote a sustainable workstyle, but then publicly praise employees who have successfully finished a project only thanks to extra working hours and sleepless nights. Stop supporting workaholics, even unknowingly.
Think about whether you are able to offer any extra flexibility to employees in terms of time, organisation of work or space, without losing productivity in the long run.
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Article source Center for Creative Leadership - CCL® website