Burnout prevention at the leadership-level
Burnout, and the broader umbrella of chronic stress-related afflictions are a modern-day epidemic in the workplace, claiming the lives of 120,000 people per year in the US and causing over $300 billion in costs.
The prevention of this loss of lives and life quality is very possible to avert, yet requires significant awareness and action at the individual, group, and organizational levels.
In support of this goal of reducing the societal damage of stress and burnout, this essay explores burnout prevention recommendations for managers and organizations. These insights stem from my own 10 years of work with organizations including Microsoft, Coinbase, and Walmart, as well as my work as a leadership coach, and also through many conversations with researchers, founders, leaders, and managers such as Thomas Gheysen Da Silva.
I recently had a very insightful conversation with Thomas Gheysen about preventing burnout, and have added Thomas’s insights into how managers and organizational leaders can navigate the topic of burnout with their teams, as quotes throughout this essay.
To begin, as a manager or leader it is important that you firstly educate yourself on burnout.
It’s critical to understand that the majority people will experience a full or partial burnout during their…
