These tips appeared on the Center for Creative Leadership website.
Change the routine
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.
Be more interested in subordinates on an individual level
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.
Focus on the processes within your team
Make an audit of your internal processes and determine whether they may cause an overload of some employees.
Ensure parameters of performance evaluation and employee workload are not outdated
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.
Do not support workaholics, even unknowingly
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.
Offer flexibility
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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